The man who gave True Detective such a haunting style may not be returning to direct the second season, but that doesn't mean he's done with serial killers. Cary Fukunaga, who won an Emmy for helming that HBO show, is returning to television with The Alienist for Paramount TV and Anonymous Content. In addition to directing, he will executive produce with Eric Roth and Hossein Amini.

The Alienist is based on Caleb Carr's 1994 novel of the same name, which follows then-police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, New York Times reporter John Moore, and the "alienist" (an old-timey word for psychiatrist) Dr. Laszlo Kreizler as they try to track down a serial killer in 1890s New York City. Fukunaga has done serial killers and period pieces before (see 2011's Jane Eyre), so The Alienist certainly sounds promising.

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