‘Mindhunter’ Season 2: Is the Situation With Bill Tench’s Son Based on a True Story?

Tench’s son Brian gets into quite a pickle in Season 2, but is this story grounded in reality at all?

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“Mindhunter” (Netflix)

(Some major spoilers ahead for season 2 of “Mindhunter” on Netflix)

After season 1 of “Mindhunter” spent most of its time outside work — that is, in scenes that aren’t focused on the FBI’s study of serial killers — with Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), season 2 goes a different way. This time around, the Netflix series focuses very little on Holden’s personal life, instead spending a lot more time with the other two main members of his team, Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany)

For Bill, his personal story revolves around an incident with his son, Brian (Zachary Scott Ross), which threatens to tear the Tench family to pieces.

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