Female serial killers: their time has come

From Jack the Ripper to Joe Goldberg, it's pretty much always been the men doing the murdering. And the victims have generally been women. So, when a certain Villanelle hit the screens in 2018's Killing Eve and started taking out people while wearing some of the most amazing outfits since Carrie Bradshaw, the public was hooked.

Up until this point, fictional female killers were usually portrayed as being completely, irrationally unhinged and hysterical - think of Glenn Close's character in Fatal Attraction. And when a woman did take a life, she would usually pay the price with her own. Women in books and movies were constantly being warned of the dangers of getting drunk, going home with men they didn't know, and wearing outfits that somehow would turn men into insatiable lunatics.