by Diana Vaccarelli
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This winter TNT premiered The Alienist, a 10 episode series that showing what police work was like before the turn of the 20th Century.
Set in 1896, this psychological thriller centers around the murder of a young prostitute boy. The event brings together an Alienist (at the time the term for certain experts on mental illness), a newspaper illustrator, a secretary, and Theodore Roosevelt in the job he actually had at the time, New York City Police Commissioner, all working to solve this brutal crime.