The Alienist
Madness lies within.
Created by Cary Joji Fukunaga
On TNT
A dark, intellectually rigorous historical crime drama that treats serial murder as a window into the psychology of madness and the social pathologies of the Gilded Age.
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
Essence
Ensemble
Daniel Brühl
Laszlo Kreizler
Luke Evans
John Moore
Dakota Fanning
Sara Howard
Matthew Shear
Lucius Isaacson
Brian Geraghty
Theodore Roosevelt
Douglas Smith
Marcus Isaacson
Robert Wisdom
Cyrus Montrose
Rosy McEwen
Libby Hatch
David Wilmot
Captain Connor
Melanie Field
Bitsy Sussman
Q'orianka Kilcher
Mary Palmer
Matt Lintz
Stevie Taggert
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