Sentences with phrase «alienist in»

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Newly appointed police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt (Brian Geraghty) calls upon criminal psychologist (aka alienist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Bruhl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret.

Just sticking to relatively recent television (as opposed to something like the movie version of From Hell), The Alienist arrives after The Knick and Boardwalk Empire featured a New York only slightly further in the future, Peaky Blinders and Penny Dreadful have done the same across the pond (the latter featuring an alienist character of its own), and Netflix's Mindhunter tackled the»70s codification of the kinds of criminal profiling that Kreizler fumbles about with here.

But The Alienist also has some unique challenges, namely, its title — few people who haven't read Caleb Carr's book or 19th - century psychology texts know what an alienist is — and several underwhelming interpretations in the past.

The Alienist (TNT, Jan. 22nd) At the turn of the century, those grim souls specializing in study of psychological aberrations — people alienated from their truer nature — were known as «alienists.»