Overview

• Netflix released the eight-episode season on October 3, created by Ian Brennan with Charlie Hunnam in the lead role.
• The series has quickly hit No. 1 on Netflix, even as critics log a franchise-low Rotten Tomatoes score reported around the low 30s.
• Coverage highlights disputed portrayals versus the historical record, with reporting noting that high-profile investigative storylines are dramatized.
• Producers and cast defend the approach as a study of untreated schizophrenia and true-crime culture, saying they sought to avoid glorification.
• Viewer discussion has zeroed in on creative choices — including Hunnam’s unusual vocal delivery he says drew on a rare recording — and on meta elements that reference horror history and FBI profiling.