Two shows I really love have a big ass tendency to kill off the women: Hannibal and The Following. Both stories revolve around white dudes with unresolved issues who like to murder. Both stories have killed off a handful of female characters, while still killing off male characters.

My observations have shown that while most of the killings have been of nameless men, the women, named and important to the plot, have been killed off in a showy and usually messy way. Nothing vague about it. They are tortured, strangled, stabbed, and buried alive. And their deaths are usually on screen a lot longer than those of the fallen men.

I’m not saying Hollywood, even “feminist” Hollywood, has an obsession with the deaths of women, but Hollywood has an obsession with the deaths of women. If it were one or two ladies dying, I wouldn’t think much of it because statistically it’s going to happen, but when all your leading ladies are killed or scared out of town leaving a bunch of dudes to look after the place, I’m not too convinced that you know how not good that is.

Second thought, let’s throw Revolution in there. It’s got the unstable white angsty white dudes and unnecessary lady death aplenty.