Final frontiers
Oct 28, 2021
3 minutes
Adam LeBor on Television
● FAR TOO MUCH OF THE crime fiction industry is still powered by dead women. They are shot, bludgeoned, beaten, stabbed and dismembered. Sometimes their corpses are fetishised in strange rituals that are supposed to bring a veneer of mystery to their fate.
The only mystery is why so many crime writers cannot think up other storylines. This endemic portrayal of female victimhood is surely intertwined with the astonishing levels of public misogyny in contemporary Britain.
Thankfully, television drama is and are two of the current best.
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