The alienist season 1 episode 2 A fruitful partnership!

This episode, I have watched it in parts so I am sorry where I butcher the storyline on some fronts more than usual.


As I have not stated yet this episode is more and more talking rather than the previous episode I reviewed but honestly it has a bit more exposition and changes perspective. This episode is enterly some sort of a planning episode for the alienist to inspect the murders of children that have been taking place in the previous episode.

The alienist puts together a team of, for that time period, foresensic specialist and the artist who was summned in the last episode and ofcourse madame secretary. He does this kind of by inviting them do a dinnerparty and also gets permission from the mayor to conduct his investigation independant from the police.

After this dinner, the dinner the person who drew the corpse in the first place goes into the brothel where the children are being sold for purposes I wont disclose here. And here he starts asking questions which doesn't go well with the mob guy that runs the place. And so he gets drugged.



In a room with a child he gets the effects of the drigs and bribes the child that has been assigned to tell him everything about a murder victim and gets robbed by the child because he is weak. Corrupt
 cops get shown and stuff and ending it is kind of messed up ending in what seems like a rape scene.

My opininion about this episode is that it is fucked up. The more you watch this the more it goes to the ending the more fucked up it gets and by that I mean that it gets quite disturbing. And I am not talking that the story takes place in the US and the people we see happening seem to have the english Stiff upper lip but about this prostitution of children part. This show is kind of disturbing. For the slow moving plot I give this episode a 5,5/10 but for the disturbing levels of this episode disturbingness I give this episode a 9 out of 10. It is not yet the disturbingness of like the reputation of a Serbian film.