Discover What’s Streaming On: The Alienist Season 2, aka The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, premiered to a lot of fanfare on TNT last Sunday. The second season of the historic crime drama reunites Dr.

Because The Alienist is more about the society that creates and nurtures a serial killer than the killer himself, the final confrontation with John Beecham (Bill Heck) feels anticlimactic by design.