![]() ![]() But it is the show’s star, its beating heart, the thing that makes a sometimes listless crime procedural irresistible. ![]() New York is not a character in The Alienist, in that it can’t make a choice or get killed off by the writers. Woody Allen’s out-of-time Manhattan pulses to pre-war jazz and is curiously empty of people who look like they wouldn’t socialize with the director himself? Then it’s actually another of his characters - like them, it seems incapable of growth or change. In TNT's new series "The Alienist." Kata Vermes/Courtesy of TNTĬritics who type faster than they think sometimes insist that a city emphasized in a work of popular narrative art is actually like “a character.” That cliché’s roots, I expect, grow from a general disinterest in setting as a foundational element of fiction, and a tendency to anthropomorphize anything in popular narrative art that exhibits a glint of authorial personality. Laszlo Kreizler, a sort of pre-modern practitioner of the psychological profiling of criminal suspects, ![]()
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