What I’m Watching: Why Women Kill (Season Finale)

Why Women Kill: Season 2, Episode 10 “The Lady Confesses” (B+)

It was hard to expect a happy ending for this episode, but I think that things wrapped up in a pretty fitting way, given the extreme nature of the circumstances in which the characters all found themselves. There are certain members of the ensemble we didn’t even get to see again, like Catherine, who went into on-the-lam mode and managed to evade capture, and both of the men that she shot ended up surviving. Rita going to confront Alma at the big event where she was being officially installed caused exactly enough attention, with Alma so intent on protecting her newfound status that she was ready to kill her in cold blood, which unfortunately ended up staying on her wardrobe and ruining her acceptance speech. It was a haunting way to say goodbye to her, seeing how she loved the attention she got even on the day that she received a death sentence, since she merely swapped out hateful protestors for adoring fans in her mind. Bertram’s fate was considerably sadder, since he tried to take the blame for it all and protect his wife only to have her end up getting arrested anyway. I’m glad there weren’t more casualties, like Dee and Vern, though this was a stressful and suspenseful right up until the end. I’m sad that we won’t get to see these characters again but I very much look forward to seeing what this show has to offer in the season three that I hope we’ll get.

Season grade: B+
Season MVP: Allison Tolman as Alma