Amazing cinematography and acting. Keeps getting better as it goes

1.The writing seems flawed, maybe because of all the different directors that trying to make their screentime count.2. The characters have some cheesy characteristics and some lines are cringey from time to time.3. The city environment and clothing style is on point.4. So much potential but fall short.7/10

Apparently this isn't a faithful adaption of the source material, I wouldn't know, but it's definitely a lot better than most tv series you'll encounter around a similar rating as it has on this day of writing (7.8).The Alienist is well made. Everything about the production is top of the line, the acting suffices, it's sometimes even good. It just suffers from minor issues in the writing, especially in the motivation of some of the characters, or the plausibility of how they end up at certain positions or locations but other than that, this is definitely worth a watch if you can get past the books.

Kept waiting for this to become sonething interesting, which it never did. Remarkable for the lack of cosmic spark between any of the three main characters despite many forced attemots at infusing dramatic, romantic or suspenseful tension. Everyone seems to be trying so terribly hard to make this compelling, but in the end this seems like a two hour made for tv movie stretched into something it isnt.