WATCH CLOSELY: Killing Eve’s Anti-Heroines

Peg Aloi
5 min readMay 30, 2019

Killing Eve is a smart, funny, and often shocking exploration of the complex psychologies of women leading dangerous lives, for whom killing comes much easier than it ought to.

Narratives about anti-heroes have become more pervasive as television’s storytelling landscape shifts and expands into paradoxical realms. An anti-hero is a protagonist whose motivations and actions are not necessarily praiseworthy. These characters may be immensely…

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Peg Aloi

The Media Witch is a multi-faceted writer, mainly a film/TV critic. She’s also a tree-hugging weirdo and badass bitch with a nice head o' hair.