The alienist episode 1 to 7

so another combination article about the alienist here we go then

The Alienist

The boy on the bridge s01e01

The boy on the bridge s01e01

This is a netflix original, while I am still not sponsered by Netflix at all, I took it on me to review the episodes while I still have to review the mist in its completion and also that startrek thing.

But here we go then. The episode starts with a boy witnessing a dead body at a for me unknown location in New York city in the eighteenhundrerds. Blood dripping everywheere. There is our main guy an alienator gets a boy in his house in need of a shrink.

The boy was the one that witnessed alll of it so our main guy that sends an illustrator so the alienator can see what our boy has seen/ this is how he gets involved with the police investigation of the murder.

There is alot of backstory involved in this series and such. Not all is explained in great detail but some of them are and I'm not going to get into it now. But the alienator gets a bit to much into the investigation as he takes it upon himself to find the killer, the police is to inadequate to do so. Even going so far to exhume bodies of a similar case that seem unrelated to what has happened now

My opinion, on this episode is that it is generally just weird to land into this established world but that it seems like at least for me it is guiding me properly guiding in the established universe while moving up the plot. Meaning that it doesn't seems to be dragged down by the backstory while not being able to continue the story, I give this episode a 7/10

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.

The alienist season 1 episode 3: The silver smile

Finally some speed in this series but in my opinion not enough to cover as much story as the series wants to do if you catch my drift.



The story starts the morning after the previous episode after the cartoonist got raped in that whorehouse with children he has been drugged and the next morning he cannot remember anything tough. As he has been drugged by the rape drug!



He's alright tough having been found by a personell member of the alienist and brought back to his house, he leaves while angry because questionings is awkward for him after such a night and then he goes back home where his granny resides asswell. Now because he came home the morning after shes gonna have him married.



Also in the beginning of the episode (in series most of the time there are multiple storylines present at once. ) there is a rich family that is informed that their son might be on the lose again and that he has been spotted in the derelict house and just might be involved in the first murder that kicked off the series.



The episode moves further with the investigation continueing because the cartoonist remembering a hint. That the first boy went willlingly with a rich man with a silver smile. They track down the prostitute that said it and they get some exposition of this world they are in.



They then discover another murder has taken place (of the tipgiver perhaps) arriving to the scene before the police does, ofcourse not officially and when the police finally arrives they have to flee and might be catched in the next episode because they dropped something. Now the showmakers have caused some drama to make things more intresting by making the main characters ending up in a fight.



Noteworthy events: In what seems to be a public bathhouse a young boy sent awway while in the corner a guy is sitting and smiling.
Something else is that the black guy had a talk with the alienist about a trail for the murder of his parents?



My opinion about this episode is that it is boring as ever! But it finally gets to be a little entertaining and it is not because of the drama between the main cast at the end of the episode. It is because finally in this episode we can have some masterfully crafted suspense about who the murderer is. Is it the son of the rich people's son that has committed everything?
What about the guy in the bathhouse what is he upto? Or the female butler of the alienist that is now seen stroking organs or a drawing of one of the murder victims? Is she family? Is she a part of the murders or are there multiple murderers? It is because of this that I say that it is getting intresting in this series. I give this episode a 6 out of ten for not moving to fast but still succeeded at making it intresting!

The alienist season 1 episode 4: these bloody toughts

I watched this episode while typing out the notes on catch 22 but I will now review this episode for you.



In this episode the investigation and character development finally move forward in a meaningfull manner in my taste at the very least! We see the jews working together with the picture drawer to go to a location and find out how the killer and his victims get to the roof of the victims



(its trough climbing walls with the help of tools together with holes in the cement) this is also how they find a boy whore that has the nickname bernadette on a roof, and he has a meaningfull expositional talk with them that reveals more of nothing about the killer really



the drawing book is turned in to the policestation by the corrupt cop to the head of the police. And it head of the police has it delivered to the doctor by misses watson to the drawer and they form the group back now that there is that much information avaible.



It is revealed that the silver smile is because of mercury treatment of syphillis and what we have a first sight of our murderer with mutilated arms which kind of seems to be conforming this and so and so, the group is brought together by the murderer himself, it is a guy afterall.



My opinion about this episode is that it is good to see that they've finally managed to get the fuck forward with the plot and character development. Forward! We even get to see some character development of the doctor, he seems to have a backstory asswell! And I like it I give this episode 7/10!

The alienist season 1 episode 5:Hildebrandt's sterling

Hello there,



There is alot of nothing and everything going on in this episode and I'm going to describe it to you.Well here we shall go



So, the episode start with the separation of the storylines for a bit, at least for the lady of our investigation group. She dissappears and gets a marriage proposal from the guy that played bard in the Hobbit series.



The alienist takes Bard on a railroadtrip to an insane asylum where one of his previous patients now lives and kind of chained up.They throw some as back and forward that doesn't improve the case they have at all.



They go back to where they live and the alienist goes to a local school run by religious people and he interview the main priest and it results in the alienist finding the pattern in the murders, the killer follows christian holidays



We see the murderer, tough my bad facial memory I don't know if it is the lad from the rich family from before or some other family, giving his next victim a milk bath and see him dancing with the child that I assume he is going to kill. The mother of our murderer comes in and talks about moving towns. To which the murderer reacts violently.



The commisioner of the police planned a raid on the supposed addres of the murderer but the captain fucks up and gives either the wrong addres or the wrong level of the house or something which leads the commisionner to remove his badge and ask for his gun back, leaving him in the rain.



My opinion about this episode is that I think that it was kind of insane they were close to catching the murderer but the actual murderer might still be some kind of kid himself. Maybe a sixteen year old or something. I was hoping actually they would catch someone who would fit the description but then the wrong guy or something instead of just having the wrong appartment/house or whatever. I tought the character develpment of the alienist himself his arm and something else. I give this episode a 7/10

The alienist season 1 episode 6: ascension

Hello there,
I have had the time now to see an episode of the alienist. Something to look forward to indeed. I am kind of busy all the time so creating new content each day is a difficult task you know.



This episode the gang (ignoring the general exposition for now) does a couple of steakouts becaue they have found the pattern in the last episode, namely christian holidays so they do one on ascension which fails because the murderer is smarter than to fall for a simple trick for now



The second stakeout however is more succesfull, with the murderer falling for the trap when the people who are supposed to be the trap are mentally absent (on purpose by the murderer or not) by some things but the lure succesfully sents the murderer to a secure location and a cat and mouse chase ensues. With the murderer escaping and ending on a kind of cliffhanger.



There is some exposition is about the alienist's arm that is somwhat crooked, exposed is that he used to be able to use both armss to play the piano, misses howard talks about it with the alienist but he refuses to talk about it.



There is also kind of a twist namely the irish policeman that got fired in the last episode kills the van buren boy that has been suspecting to do the murders but the is still around. So we are still left in the blue about the identity.



My opinion about this episode is that it restored my faith in the show. There is still room for plottwists and things to explore in the following episodes. It looked like the episode was going to be one of those slow ones but it wasn't it had slower parts but they served a purpose.
There for I give this episode a 7 out of 10 ascensions!

The alienist season 1 episode 7: many sainted men

So yeah I have finally watched this episode, and I will now review it for you on this blog.



In this episode, we deal with the aftermath of the murder in the last episode. People are finally rioting in front of the police station and at our main team they almost beat them up like they are responsible for everything that has happened until now with the murders.



A second storyline has been going up in intensity. The Irish cop and one of the others meet in a pub and they speak about the Irish cop gets a lecture about whom they serve, the rich because they lift them up from the commonfolk. So he is told that he best remembers that aslong as they have money they have the power. This is still kind of the truth, I never tought there would be



In the first minutes of the episode we get the kid they set up as bait giving a description of the murderer. Why am I reffering to this now? Well our Illustrator goes to a icecream shop where he attempts to draw the murderer again when we see a guy with the same characteristics chloforms the illustrator, he gets thrown inside a police carriage. With our alienist ofcourse



they are taken to a large mansion owned by a very rich man which I cannot remember the name from and in the sofa a bishop tells them they have to stop their investigation to protect the rich family of the previous prime suspect but he is no longer a suspect because they now think that the murderer comes from an asylum that has military people that has seen native american killing practices.
So our female has her own investigation that goes to from asylum to asylum until she finds a lead and she goes there.



My opinion about this episode, is that it is finally some more outzoomed than previous episodes other storylines are much clearer to me now, that is why I could talk more about the other storylines which I think is good. I give this episodes 7 out 10 many sainted men