Just finished up the show, Colin Farrell was spectacular as an actor, but the wahmaning, victim writing, and poor story structure sucked the life out of the otherwise genuinely good parts. I don’t know if it was the female showrunner or writers or what, but you could have entirely removed the female “rival (but secret actual main character)” from the entire series and the show would have drastically improved. They had gold with a Colin Farrell playing Tony soprano trying to scumbag his way to the top and nearly half the series episodes instead revolve around a girl boss “finding herself” after being a victim. It’s so fucking tiresome anymore that something can be a solid 7-8 tv show if you just completely remove half of it because it’s female victim porn.
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You should look at how they bastardized that comic run to make the show character, she’s the “hangman” but secretly a victim who never killed anyone and her dads an evil monster who was the real hangman ( killing only women, including her mom), set her up, locker her in Arkham and her evil patriarchal family never supported her so she kills them and takes her mothers name Gigante (her husbands name in the comic series, but girl bosses can’t have husbands or kids). You insert a bunch of female “revenge porn” and a psychologist simp lover and that’s what the story writers spent the middle episodes shoving down your throat.
Fair enough.
It was somewhat annoying but at least they didn't actually make her a girlboss. She reveled in her victim role and that's the reason why it ended the way it did.