Critics hail 'thrilling' feminist TV spy drama

If you feel required to use a word "feminist" to define "art", you are defining a humiliation of "art".

It's a "feminist" drama?Meaning the drama supports feminism? No thanks just entertain us

Daniel NaumoffToday  07:17 am JST

If you feel required to use a word "feminist" to define "art", you are defining a humiliation of "art".

Why?

Phoebe Waller-Bridge was the creator and star of the excellent Fleabag, a very bitter black comedy, a couple of years ago. Sandra Oh was terrific in Gray's Anatomy as well. I'll be watching this I'm sure.

If you feel required to use a word "feminist" to define "art", you are defining a humiliation of "art".

What?

I wasn't that keen on Fleabag, but this sounds good.

That it needs to have the word feminist attached to it, just to warn readers that the lead roles are women, shows how skewed attitudes still are

Saw the first episode. It was okay. Would prefer less comedy and more intrigue/thriller.

In contrast, the assassin Villanelle, played by British actress Jodie Comer, is fearless, a psychopath with a twisted sense of humour who lives in Paris and travels all around Europe killing people in ever more creative ways.

Another TV show psychopath showing real world psychopaths how easy it is to get away with murder. It doesn't get any more entertaining than that.

Yep, here we go again. The very same people who rail against violence in society give us yet another show with 'creative' murder at its center.

oh, and its comedy too.

"Feminist spy drama"

so using their womanly ways to gain an advantage and calling it "empowerment", but pulling the feminist warrior card when something even slightly sexist is done or said. It's a comedy right?

Looking forward to seeing it.

Its a shoo-in for grammys - 'empowering women', minority inthe lead (and a woman too!)

we gave a winner!