A small moment in Hulu’s riveting new series Furious reveals the depth of the show’s preoccupation with female revenge. Investigating a crime scene with an officer who is also her abusive former boyfriend, FBI agent Alice Black (Emmy Rossum) secures a pair of blood-stained scissors and hands them over to her ex. Yet, just for an instant, we see something darker in her expression. She’d clearly prefer to stab him in his guilt-ridden face. The harm men do to women — and that women do back to them — is the dominant theme of Hulu’s eight-part production, now streaming weekly following its premiere in late July. Alice, an FBI rookie who once worked for the New York City Police Department, has been called in to investigate a homicide disguised as a drug overdose. The dead man was the son of a prominent billionaire. Could his new girlfriend, strangely absent from neighborhood security footage, be to blame? That young woman, played by a startlingly good Lola Petticrew (Say Nothing), goes by many names over the course of the series but is billed as Catherine Grace. A former victim of child sex trafficking, Catherine has developed a murderous modus operandi: track down, seduce, and poison the men responsible for her ill treatment. Through the first four episodes alone, at least as many bodies pile up, killed or left for dead by a woman who invites explicit comparison to the mythological sufferer Medusa. “She’s a victim,” one fed says of our lethal antiheroine, “but it doesn’t make her a good person. It turns her into a monster.”