When I saw the teaser for the new Netflix show Mindhunter, I was skeptical of yet another televised police procedural. I also wondered if following the historical origins of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit might be a bit boring. I’ve read the book that the show is based on, John E. Douglas’s Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, and felt like there were probably already enough fictionalized characters based on Douglas (Jack Crawford from Silence of the Lambs, and Gideon and Rossi from Criminal Minds to name a few).