Another day, another TV heroine brutalised
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There are times, after a long day’s work, when I’d rather not see a woman tied to a bedpost, her skirt fetchingly hitched up around her thighs, being slowly strangled to death. Neither, if I’m honest, do I relish the sight of 19th-century prostitutes lying prone in east London alleyways, their fallopian tubes splattered all the way to The Strand. And forgive me if I am less than joyful at watching a successful working woman being anally raped by her bitter, emasculated husband.
And yet I have seen all this and more in recent months, courtesy of assorted television dramas including The Fall, Ripper Street and The Politician’s Husband. They have, typically, appeared on my screen just at the point that I’m tucking into a nice plate of chili con carne.