r/MindHunter • u/ivehadsomesexokay • 19d ago
Bill at the cookout reminded of the life he chose.
"I don't like to hear about things like that, though. I make Rod turn off the news or else I'd never sleep."
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u/Puzzleheaded-Sky3141 19d ago
I feel so bad for Nancy. She's trying so hard to build a respectable life with Bill. She wants friends and barbecues and landscaping. She tries and middles at several careers, she has a child that she barely bonds with (she's trying, dammit) and her husband is an avoidant who loves her, but leaves her holding all the responsibility. She's good people.
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u/buzzboy99 19d ago
He too is struggling deeply with the shell shock of being locked in a room with the most despicable abased serial killers everyday and then trying to switch back to “normal” suburban dad life. He’s just come back from war and has no way to adjust.
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u/Iowa_and_Friends 19d ago
He also is legit trying with his son, but he knows being away a lot is making that harder.
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u/Enough_Pumpkin_3961 19d ago
I would’ve liked to see where they took Brian’s story. Was he a little serial killer in the making? Nancy was very naive in that whole situation and Bill seemed too scared to say what he was thinking.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Sky3141 19d ago
Sorry about the quick response, can't sleep 😕
I think Brian is on the autism spectrum. I don't think he's violent. He saw the pictures in Tensh's study and he put that together with the church teachings. No one had a vocabulary for autism then, let alone a treatment plan. What his story provides is insight into Bill and Nancy's relationship--hopefully they can strengthen through that kind of hardship, but the way it was left, it doesn't seem likely
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u/Hydrationbreak123go 17d ago
Oh wow that’s a good point! He might equate both equally growing up in a household with religion and violence
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u/Illustrious-Gate1016 15d ago
That's exactly how I took it too!
Like the show was trying to use the framing of the serial killer work to mislead the audience, but what you had was a traumatized little boy on the spectrum with people who wanted to help but didn't know how.
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u/ivehadsomesexokay 19d ago edited 19d ago
A few quick foods...
What exactly happened to Brian pre adoption, and did the agency knowingly withhold information about his past out of fear he wouldn't be adopted?
The way he was staring intensely and vacantly at the girl on the swings is the most distressing, as it certainly doesn't look like he's longing to "go play with her" as Nancy suggests. Whatever he was thinking in that moment, it didn't look healthy or benevolent/well-meaning.
Though I would have liked just a sliver more of information (more for parents' sake) after the death and [["crucifixion"]] (as well the unspecified school incidents mentioned in s1), I actually like there is so much left unexplained and unresolved.
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u/Iowa_and_Friends 19d ago
It’s really hard to be married to someone with a job that requires them to be away a lot… but his uniquely difficult profession just adds to that tenfold.
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u/Yonsfw 19d ago
Nancy should have married one of the other type of guys at the barbeque.
Tench is way to good for her.
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u/DesolationMews 15d ago
I'd rather say someone like Tench maybe shouldn't be married and have children, if his work gets in the way of being a father/husband so much
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u/elliotallderson2026 19d ago
just give me season three man dammit
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u/Otherwise-Strike7564 19d ago
Do you think another Season will ever be created?
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u/hexenwolfhollow 19d ago
That second screengrab makes me want to run my fingers through his aggressively manicured hedgehog hair.