Favorite Episodes of "THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS" Season Two (2020)
Below is my ranking of the Season One episodes of "THE ALIENIST: ANGEL OF DARKNESS", the 2020 adaptation of Caleb Carr's 1997 novel, “The Angel of Darkness”. Created by Jakob Verbruggen and Cary Fukunaga, the television series starred Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans and Dakota Fanning:
1. (2.05) "Belly of the Beast" - The team races to find the killer responsible for murdering an employee at the Lying-In Hospital.
2. (2.04) “Gilded Cage” - The clock is ticking for the team to locate baby Ana Linares, the infant daughter of the Spanish consul-general. Meanwhile, Sara Howard, now a private detective, is worried about her young undercover detective Bitsy Sussman. William Randolph Hearst hosts a lavish ball celebrating his goddaughter Violet's engagement to John Moore, New York Times illustrator.
3. (2.07) “Last Exit to Brooklyn” - Sara, Moore and alienist Laszlo Kreizler travel to Brooklyn in search of clues hidden in the killer's dark past.
4. (2.01) “Ex Ore Infantium” - One year after Season One, Sara seeks out Dr. Kreizler's help in finding the kidnapped baby Ana. Dr. Kreizler reunites with Moore and the rest of the original team. And their search for the missing child brings them into contact with a mysterious woman with a murderous past, who is connected to a notorious gang.
5. (2.08) “Better Angels” - Sara, Moore, and Kreizler have their final confrontation with the killer/kidnapper, and struggle with decisions about their future paths.
6. (2.02) “Something Wicked” - Sara uncovers a clue at the Siegel-Cooper department store. Moore struggles to balance his personal and professional life, as he investigates a link to New York's criminal underworld. Kreizler suspects dark goings-on at the Lying-In Hospital, while former police chief Thomas Byrnes plots against their investigations.
7. (2.06) “Memento Mori” - Sara and John continue to search for information about Libby Hatch, a nurse at the Lying-In Hospital. Kreizler is nearly ruined by a tragic accident. Sara and the team have to work with Byrnes to find a new missing child from the Vanderbilt family.
8. (2.03) “Labrynith” - Sara persuades a young nurse to disclose what happens behind closed doors at the Lying-In Hospital. Meanwhile, Kreizler is convinced that hypnosis might unlock Señora Linares’ traumatic memories of her daughter’s kidnapping. Moore introduces Sara to a well-connected friend to further the investigation.
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I hate the ending of season 2 and wrote a fanfiction to fix that mess for myself. Feel free to read it and maybe like it.
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Hello!
I made this account to rant about The Alienist. I watched the first season of the show and HAD to get my hands on the book. And now I am SO so obssesed with it.
The Alienist is one of the best books I've read in my life, and I already have The Angel of Darkness, which I'll start reading tomorrow, hopefully.
After finishing the second book, I'll watch the second season of the show, and you BET I'm going to rant SO DAMN MUCH; Similarities and differences between the book and the show, why I prefer the book, what I think of EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER, why I love the story so much, what I like, what I don't like... I'll talk about anything I can (let's ignore the fact that I do not have friends to talk about this lmao).
I'm also planning on doing fanfics and similar stuff, but... We'll see. If you love The Alienist, or would like to talk about it, I'm here (?).
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I also do actually want to do a rewatch of Angel of Darkness, but I know I will go absolutely incandescent with rage at what they did to Marcus. Probably even more so on the rewatch since they decided to just ignore book canon to kill him which I didn’t know he survives in the book until much later. At least if Carr ever actually publishes the third book, I will have my son there.
(Also them killing off a Jewish character played by a Jewish actor is gross.)
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I might read The Alienist + The Angel of Darkness (for the 6th time).
Or I'll read the Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children series again (for the 2nd time).
Idk exactly which one to read again while I save up money to buy some new books.
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i'll be honest i think sitting under a tree by a stream talking about generational trauma with laszlo would fix me.
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OKAY I AM SO HAPPY
I started reading The Angel of Darkness yesterday and IT HAS A MAP (that would have been so useful in the first book). Problem is that it's almost impossible to read, so I looked it up on Google.
AND I FOUND A WEBSITE DEDICATED TO "THE ALIENIST". It has tons of stuff I can't stop going over; News on Caleb Carr, analysis, sumaries, information, EVEN MAPS with the locations of the places mentioned in the books.
It's not official but it's SO GOOD. And here it is!
Actual footage of me after spending an hour on reading everything in there:
(Only thing: I'm having problems subscribing to it, but still can check it though)
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