To secure a conviction, what does the legal system ask of a victim of harassment? We know she must be someone who has a flawless memory of the incident and reports it straight away – ideally on the same day. She has to cut off contact with her abuser as soon as the abuse takes place. She must dress modestly, hardly drink, and she has definitely never, ever, lied. In fact, in her personal life, she will never have put a toe out of line. She is an attentive mother, girlfriend, daughter. In short, she doesn’t exist.
Beneath the veneer of a straightforward crime thriller, it is the dismantling of this pervasive myth that lies at the heart of Paramount+’s new six-part series The Killing Kind. Ingrid Lewis (Emma Appleton, Everything I Know About Love) is a young, high-flying, defence barrister – a pant-suited London girlboss who flits between court, exercise classes and the pub.
