Last Thursday, the last episode of Why Women Kill was broadcast on M6. For the last time, we found these colorful characters. We also found our new heroines, to discover the continuation and the end of their adventures. If you haven't seen this series yet, we highly recommend it! 
A fluid sequence of eras
One of the major assets of Why Women Kill is undoubtedly its construction through three eras. These eras are easily distinguished, both through their own fashion and their customs. We still love as much as in our first review, the house that sometimes ages, sometimes modernizes. There has also been a clear change in the status of women. Beth-Ann represents the perfect woman one would find in a sixties commercial, enduring her own role as a housewife and the expectations of a selfish husband. Taylor breaks free from norms. Simone, on the other hand, is a kind of transition between the woman of the sixties and that of the 2000s. Throughout the ages, Why Women Kill deals so much with the emergence of feminism, AIDS, or polyamory. It also addresses the theme of abortion, when its practice was still clandestine. Thus, the scenes are juxtaposed perfectly. One of the scenes is even made so that the main characters are seated and aligned, attending a tango as timeless. This single scene, coupled with the dialogue between the dancers, is representative of what the characters are facing, with the addition of a third person. A strong and symbolic scene, since this third person rocks each couple. Throughout the season, the transition from one era to another gives a real dynamism to the episodes, which makes that the series does not run out of steam. After all, these plots will all stop at the end of the first season, creating no redundancy. The intrigues then keep us in suspense, forcing us to constantly wonder about the real reasons for the murders. 
A psychology of the characters more worked than one might think
Why Women Kill seemed to us to be based on a simple idea. That of three women who take revenge on their unfaithful husbands. Over the course of the episodes, we were pleasantly surprised to discover the complexity of the plots. Simone comes to feel empathy for Karl. Beth-Ann shatters her image as a perfect woman when we learn the fate she reserves for her husband. Their reasoning is ultimately much more complex than we could have believed at the beginning of the series. The same goes for their personalities, Simone going beyond the superficial image she gave herself. Beth-Ann even forms a dangerous friendship with her husband's mistress, built on a lie to make her vulnerable. We finally come to feel some empathy for the young woman, April, as their friendship solidifies. This strange friendship reminds us of the funny situations of Desperate Housewives, big sister of Why Women Kill. Among the three female characters, the writers could be criticized for having deepened Beth-Ann's more than the others. However, this is only a minor criticism that can be made, since it allows us to understand its journey. She thus passes from the perfect woman to the one who causes the death of her husband. In addition, the staging of the murders, in a single scene, gave even more rhythm to the finale of the series. The big downside on the other hand, would be the character of Jade. Even if the discovery of her past surprises us, the character of Alexandra Daddario seems too caricatured to us. So much so that it is difficult to hang on to the trio of our time. Their scenes seemed rather dull, compared to the other two eras when the tone was more humorous. 
A second season for Why Women Kill
When broadcast on M6, the series broke a fourteen-year-old audience record! Since 2006 for the first season of Bones, the channel had not had such good ratings for a first season. As Pure Media pointed out, about 3.82 million viewers followed the series assiduously, every Thursday. That's why the channel had chosen to broadcast one episode at a time, as we had mentioned in our article a few weeks earlier. Since Why Women Kill is an anthology series, the second season will feature new women with new stories. If a second season was indeed announced last October, we do not know more for the moment. Anyway, we strongly recommend this first season, both for the themes treated and for its colorful characters. It also offers a deeper reflection than one might think on the place of women over time, whether in a couple or in society itself.
