Christmas Carnage: Netflix’s Black Doves

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Crime series all boast violence, and, while some of the violence is abhorrent and gratuitous some of it is framed as necessary and justified. In the Netflix thriller, Black Doves, the good hitmen and the good hit women mostly only kill when it can’t be avoided and when they have to kill to save their own skins. The bad killers have no sense of morality or ethics. They kill for sport and money. With the exception of Helen Webb (Keira Knightly), the good hitmen and women are gays and lesbians...