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: After an initial period of fury and a retaliatory affair with her friend's 18-year-old son, the narrative shifts into a surprisingly poignant exploration of loyalty and friendship in the face of the 1980s AIDS crisis. 2019: Taylor Harding (Kirby Howell-Baptiste)

Unlike men, who often kill partners out of possessiveness or jealousy (the "if I can't have you, no one can" motive), women often kill as a desperate form of escape. The violence is frequently reactive. It is the culmination of a long history of terror where the woman feels trapped, believing that her life—or Why Women Kill

Legal scholar Carol Smart argued that the "mad or bad" binary for female killers is a tool of patriarchal control. If a woman kills, she is either insane (and therefore not responsible) or a monster (and therefore irredeemable). There is no room for the "reasonable" female killer, even though the law allows for reasonable male killers. : After an initial period of fury and