‘Furious’ review: A riveting tale of angry women and vigilante justice
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Furious will go down as one of the definitive explorations of the depraved culture that nurtured predators like Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Epstein’s death in prison in 2019, attributed to a suspicious suicide, denied closure to the survivors of his decades-long sex trafficking racket.
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Furious captures the seething anger over obstructed justice but does something else too: it shatters perceptions of the ideal victim, presenting instead women who are dark, manipulative, violent and yet wholly worthy of empathy.
The Hulu series, available in India on JioHotstar, aired the last of eight episodes on Monday. Created by Elizabeth Merriweather and co-written by her, Furious is baggily based on Bob Rafelson’s stylish erotic thriller Black Widow (1987).
Black Widow revolves around Catherine, a serial killer who targets wealthy marks, and Alex, the US government official who hunts her down. Catherine is also the name of the young woman in Furious who is luring and then killing off rich, older men. The contempt for women like Catherine, which paradoxically makes her task easier, is captured in the pithy line, one of many memorable pieces of dialogue: “I don’t even remember this girl.”
Catherine (Lola Petticrew) is seeking vengeance not only for the terrible things done to her but also for the murder of her...