Have you watched Why Women Kill?

Have you ever watched Why Women Kill?

Well, it’s a darkly comic series that tells the story of women in different decades who, faced with betrayal, abuse, and suffocating expectations, end up crossing a line. Season 1 moves through the 1960s, 1980s, and 2010s, following three women in the same house but at different times. At first glance, it’s about disloyal partners. But if you look closer, it’s about much more—humiliation, control, manipulation, and the quiet violence of being ignored or diminished. Season 2 takes us back to the 1940s, where a woman desperate to belong is torn apart by rejection, judgement, and envy until her life unravels.

It’s glossy and camp, yes, but beneath the drama the creators seem to be highlighting something deeper: women are not passive ornaments in history, and when they break, it’s because they’ve been forced to carry too much for too long.

Some see it as satire about how women’s roles have shifted over the decades but their pain has not. Some see empowerment—women finally reclaiming control after abuse and betrayal. Others worry it feeds the stereotype of women as irrational or vengeful.

But here’s the point that matters. Women don’t kill randomly. They kill their abusers. They kill to defend themselves. They kill to protect someone dear to them from suffering the same pain. It’s never the first choice, it’s the last. Before they ever become “killers”, they are survivors. Survivors of years of physical and mental abuse. Survivors of control, humiliation, trauma, and silence.

And sometimes, in the darkest of tragedies, women even kill their own children, not because they don’t love them, but because they believe death is the only way to save them from a life of cruelty and suffering. It is never about gain. It is never casual. It is always desperate.

So maybe Why Women Kill isn’t really about murder. Maybe it’s about what pushes someone to that breaking point. It’s about the abuse endured, the battles survived, and the moment where survival shifts into self-defence.

See, the point is… women who kill are survivors first. The deed comes only after the world has left them with no other way out.