TNT Orders THE ALIENIST Season Two
Mike Sprague
|
Earlier this year, TNT began airing their new horror-drama series The Alienist starring Daniel Brühl (Rush), Luke Evans (The Girl on the Train) and Dakota Fanning. A huge critical and ratings success, the show earned six Emmy Award nominations, including Outstanding Limited Series.
And so I guess it makes sense then that TNT has ordered The Angel of Darkness, a new limited series based on the sequel to best-selling author Caleb Carr. The Alienist’s lead cast including Brühl, Evans, and Fanning will return in an all-new storyline.
“We could not be prouder of The Alienist’s outstanding, award-worthy performance and all of the work the incredible actors and crew put in to bring that story and time period to life,” said Sarah Aubrey, executive vice president of original programming for TNT. “Our audience fell in love with these multi-dimensional, timeless characters and the journey of their struggles living in complicated times. With this new story in TNT’s Suspense Collection, we will further immerse viewers into their world as they are confronted with a new enemy.”
The Angel of Darkness is a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T with Eric Roth, Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Rosalie Swedlin and Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective, Stephen King’s IT) serving as executive producers.
Synopsis:
An unflinching, gripping, turn-of-the-century murder mystery amidst the underbelly of New York City’s “Gilded Age,” The Alienist followed Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a brilliant and obsessive “alienist” in the controversial new field of treating mental pathologies. In the first series, Kreizler was relentless in his pursuit of a never-before-seen ritualistic killer murdering young boys. He was joined by newspaper illustrator John Moore and Sara Howard, an ambitious secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective.
Categorized:News
