TNT Orders ‘The Alienist’ Season 2, Titled ‘The Angel Of Darkness’
TNT has given the green-light toThe Alienistseason 2. Like theAlienistfollow-up book of the same name, the new season will be titledThe Angel of Darkness.AlieniststarsDaniel Brühl,Luke EvansandDakota Fanningwill all reprise their roles for the limited series.
Last month, TNT announced that their limited seriesThe Alienistwas the first installment of their “Suspense Collection”, an anthology brand name that would continue on with Patty Jenkins’I Am the Night. But TNT isn’t done with the world ofThe Alienistjust yet. The network has orderedThe Angel of Darkness, a follow-up toThe Alienist, based on the novel byCaleb Carr.
“We could not be prouder ofThe Alienist’soutstanding, award-worthy performance and all of the work the incredible actors and crew put in to bring that story and time period to life,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive VP of original programming for TNT. “Our audience fell in love with these multi-dimensional, timeless characters and the journey of their struggles living in complicated times. With this new story in TNT’s Suspense Collection, we will further immerse viewers into their world as they are confronted with a new enemy.”
The three main characters ofThe Alienist– Daniel Brühl as Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, Luke Evans as John Moore, and Dakota Fanning as Sarah Howard – will all return forThe Angel of Darkness.The Alienistfound these individuals investigating a serial killer in late 1800s New York City.The Angel of Darknesshas them once again in the midst of a ghastly mystery. Here’s the synopsis of theAngel of Darknessnovel:
June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his discipline. Kreizler and his friends—high-living crime reporter John Schuyler Moore; indomitable, derringer-toting Sara Howard; the brilliant (and bickering) detective brothers Marcus and Lucius Isaacson; powerful and compassionate Cyrus Montrose; and Stevie Taggert, the boy Kreizler saved from a life of street crime—have returned to their former pursuits and tried to forget the horror of the Beecham case.
But when the distraught wife of a Spanish diplomat begs Sara’s aid, the team reunites to help find her kidnapped infant daughter. It is a case fraught with danger, since Spain and the United States are on the verge of war. Their investigation leads the team to a shocking suspect: a woman who appears to the world to be a heroic nurse and a loving mother, but who may in reality be a ruthless murderer of children.
I foundThe Alienistto be a triumph of production design, but it left me abit coldoverall. Still, the three leads are compelling enough, and I’m always up for more stylish, gothic mysteries, so I look forward to seeing whatThe Angel of Darknessbrings.
