it's the tiny narrative choices that make deadloch such a great satirical social critique show. a serial killer that targets only cis het white men, who turned out to be abusive assholes while alive and specifically harassed and abused women, and the twist of the lead theory being that the killer is a woman taking revenge / avenging the women in her life, is already good enough of a premise. but you can immediately see how people with zero analytical skills would react to that premise. there'd be all kinds of boo-hoo-ing about the revenge fantasy plot and how either pandering it is or unrealistic it is or how it "targets/shames men" because "not all men" etc etc. but then you have the twist that the killer is likely not a woman, but a man who is seeking the vengeance on behalf of the women in his life. and you go into a possible set of reactions / interpretations that suggests it's satisfying to have an ally realize his fellow men are awful people and he won't be villainized as badly as a woman for taking extreme measures because it's still a patriarchy, but then you get the narrative that the show gives too in breaking the fourth wall a bit with the killer's actual justification: that the ally position is more often nothing but a self gratifying posture that centers ego above actual community. like, the show goes out of its way to explicitly point out that this is a bad, bad take that many people assume. so the killer turning out to be not just a man, but a real serial killer who is independently insane, sociopathic, and psychopathic, and would have always been that way regardless of what anyone in his life was suffering, proves that the show is satirizing the patriarchy within which we struggle to make moral choices to just survive, and pointing out who has never had to worry about surviving under those conditions. basically, i'm saying that it's really really smart for the villain to be a true villain who is absolutely not motivated by real feminism or women's safety and rights, because making that a motive would have given critics desperate to attack a show about women for hating men carte blanche. it completely dismisses that reading, and makes it impossible to argue that real feminism is about women vs men and instead about who has power and who does not. seriously, a very smart show.
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