Yes, it is an excellent miniseries--really outstanding. Although taking some dramatic license, it is basically quite accurate; and the dramatic license taken is very effective in holding the viewer's interest. The bombings started when I was age 28 and continued until I was 45, and I still recall many details today.

Having a background in both psychology and computer science, I was very familiar with the work of two of the Unabomber's victims, U. of Michigan psychology professor James V. McConnell and Yale U. computer scientist David Gelernter. Both could be characterized as more than a little unconventional. McConnell had a weird theory discussed in Wikipedia:

"His paper Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians [a species of flatworm], published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry, reported that when planarians conditioned to respond to a stimulus were ground up and fed to other planarians, the recipients learned to respond to the stimulus faster than a control group did. McConnell believed that this was evidence of a chemical basis for memory, which he identified as memory RNA. Although well publicized, his findings were not completely reproducible by other scientists and were therefore at the time completely discredited."

David Gelernter is, as far as I'm concerned, a sort of right-wing nut job, although, somewhat incongruously, also very intelligent. A D.J. Trump supporter, you can read more about him here.

It's not completely clear to me why McConnell was targeted, unless the Unabomber didn't like his use of animals in experiments. I can see why perhaps he would target Gelernter, who is a climate-change denier, etc.

@pt100 said:

"His paper Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians [a species of flatworm], published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry, reported that when planarians conditioned to respond to a stimulus were ground up and fed to other planarians, the recipients learned to respond to the stimulus faster than a control group did. McConnell believed that this was evidence of a chemical basis for memory, which he identified as memory RNA. Although well publicized, his findings were not completely reproducible by other scientists and were therefore at the time completely discredited."

That is a fascinating theory about the worms, I know I could google and probably will, but was that ever proven or discredited officially at a later time? Worms are so different physically it's hard to compare them to any other species outside of their own. That's truly something just thinking about the possibility of them inheriting memory through the digestion of their fellow species. Maybe just the possible ideation of the ingestion of a human brain leading to a gain of their former knowledge really wormed it's way under Kaczynski's skin. Or maybe the bombing of Prof. McConnell was merely to distract authorities looking for motive and connection between victims.

@ThrillKillz said:

@pt100 said:

"His paper Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians [a species of flatworm], published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry, reported that when planarians conditioned to respond to a stimulus were ground up and fed to other planarians, the recipients learned to respond to the stimulus faster than a control group did. McConnell believed that this was evidence of a chemical basis for memory, which he identified as memory RNA. Although well publicized, his findings were not completely reproducible by other scientists and were therefore at the time completely discredited."

That is a fascinating theory about the worms, I know I could google and probably will, but was that ever proven or discredited officially at a later time? Worms are so different physically it's hard to compare them to any other species outside of their own. That's truly something just thinking about the possibility of them inheriting memory through the digestion of their fellow species.

As an expert in experimental design/methodology, I can tell you that McConnell made a rookie mistake: he did not include the proper experimental control groups with which to compare his treatment group. E.g., here is an abstract from a later, properly controlled experiment.

Maybe just the possible ideation of the ingestion of a human brain leading to a gain of their former knowledge really wormed it's way under Kaczynski's skin. Or maybe the bombing of Prof. McConnell was merely to distract authorities looking for motive and connection between victims.

I believe he just had a grudge against academia in general, and perhaps also psychologists in particular. As an undergraduate at Harvard, Kaczynski was a research subject in an ethically questionable experiment conducted by renowned psychology professor Henry Murray, which some analysts have suggested influenced Kaczynski's later actions. (The "UN" in the F.B.I.'s "UNABOM" case name stands for university; the "A" stands for airline.)

Also, as a teacher of undergraduates, he was not very good (wooden lectures straight from the textbook, and refusal to answer questions in class). I think his discomfort with academia contributed to his thought process.

I see there has been another season of Manhunt, this time about the Olympic Park Bomber. This is also excellent, and fairly faithful to the truth. It aired in the winter of 2020, and shows the hell that Richard Jewell was put through by the FBI and the media before Eric Rudolf was finally identified as the bomber.