Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, and Daniel Brühl Lead the Pack at The Alienist Premiere

All that glitters is far from gold in The Alienist, a 10-episode thriller set in the Gilded Age, the Mark Twain–coined phrase describing an era most corrupt and grim beneath a faux sheen of opulence. A world not far off from today, as director Jakob Verbruggen told Vogue during last night’s New York City’s premiere at iPic theater. Its relevancy is what attracted him to Caleb Carr’s novel The Alienist, which the series is based on. “It’s about class division; it’s about immigration; it’s about embracing new ideas.”