

What a difference a finale makes, right?īut it’s hard to feel celebratory after watching tonight’s episode.

By the end, he’s toasting the team at Delmonico’s, glass in hand, smiling and standing between a man he respects and a woman he loves. At the beginning of the episode, John Moore is so gripped by panic that even the sight of a child’s butchered body comes as a relief, since at least it isn’t his young friend Joseph. A team of investigators sees its unorthodox methods proven sound. The series finale of “The Alienist” depicts what came to be known a century later as a “ catastrophic success.” A child is saved. Season 1, Episode 10: ‘Castle in the Sky’
