The fateful day for Mindhunterfans has arrived. News of a third season has finally been announced. Unfortunately, it’s not good. 

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After the show’s season two finale in 2019, it was revealed that cast members Holt McCallany, Jonathan Groff, and Anna Torv were released from their contracts as season three entered into an indefinite hold by Netflix, per TV Line. At the time, it was believed executive producer David Fincher’s busy schedule was to blame. Now we know the culprit was actually Netflix. 

In speaking with the French magazine Le Journal du Dimanche, Fincher said he’s “very proud of the first two seasons. But it’s a very expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we didn’t attract enough of an audience to justify such an investment.”

He also said, “I don’t blame them, they took risks to get the show off the ground, gave me the means to do Mank the way I wanted to do it and they allowed me to venture down new paths with The Killer. It’s a blessing to be able to work with people who are capable of boldness. The day our desires are not the same, we have to be honest about parting ways.”

Just like that, any and all hope for a third season went out the window. As a long-time collaborator of Netflix, it’s clear Fincher is not in the market of tarnishing the platform’s name, but the same can’t be said of the fans. 

Rallying together in their ire, the fandom turned to Twitter to express their frustration at being strung along for four years and at Netflix for not recognizing quality if it spat in its face. 

Netflix will spend millions of dollars on stuff they’ll cancel after one season after not even promoting it. There are 50 Ryan Murphy shows. There are two Tall Girls. I know they can make the math work.

All I want is more Mindhunter.

— Richard Newby (@RICHARDLNEWBY) February 21, 2023

Notorious for prematurely canceling shows, (ahem, Warrior Nun) it’s hard to see Netflix’s side of things, especially when Mindhunter had a Rotten Tomatoes freshness score of 96 percent for season one and an astounding 99 percent for season two. It feels almost patronizing to say the audience wasn’t there to support the cost. 

Above and beyond money, Twitter user @pjmaciak delivered a seething critique of just how far Netflix has veered from its moral baseline. To go from a show that investigates the human psyche and societal fixation with serial killers to then promoting them with Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is about as twisted as it can get. 

MINDHUNTER wasn't perfect, but it thought really hard, sometimes uncomfortably, about why people are fascinated by tales of serial killers, what charisma they have. Netflix is now solely in the business of telling those tales, marketing that charisma, and not thinking about why.

— Phillip Maciak (@pjmaciak) February 21, 2023

As masterpieces go, Mindhunter was that and more to some fans. The heartbreak is real. 

David Fincher confirmed that there will be no season 3 for #Mindhunter.

We've lost a masterpiece.💔

— 𝐟𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐚; (@househarington) February 20, 2023

If money is all it takes, then perhaps a GoFundMe account is the next step. Or a winning lottery ticket. 

if i won the lottery, i would give all my winnings to david fincher so he could make a third season of mindhunter

— 🐰 (@ihcarama) February 21, 2023

Years of waiting, hoping, and expecting good news have all come to this. Is it any wonder the fandom is angry?

“David Fincher confirms there will be no 3rd season of Mindhunter.”

— Sopranos World (@SopranosWorld) February 21, 2023

The fans are not even past the point of bribery if it comes to that. Noah Centineo for Mindhunter. Your choice, Netflix. 

having a very normal reaction to this mindhunter news

— sk (@kirkxxs) February 21, 2023

Whether the Mindhunter fandom reaches the same level of furor as the Warrior Nun fandom remains to be seen. The former fantasy series recently amassed a staggering 10 million tweets in an effort to snag Netflix’s attention. 

Be it a GoFundMe, a petition, or millions of tweets, it’s safe to say this won’t be the last Netflix hears of Mindhunter.