Why we need to say goodbye to the romance of the gun
This story is part of INTO’s seven-part series, in which we’ve asked queer voices to respond to the surge in gun crime and the sixth anniversary of the Pulse shooting.
We hope these varied perspectives encourage dialogue and change to end the needless violence plaguing our country.When the British drama “Happy Valley” hit streaming in 2015, I, along with millions of others, could not get enough.
In 2016, Emily Nussbaum praised the show’s second season, explaining that unlike so much art coming out at the time, it found “something original to say about evil.”The show followed hard-nosed police chief Catherine Cawood (Sarah Lancashire) on a hunt to avenge her daughter’s death by suicide—a death she feels certain was encouraged by her daughter’s ex-boyfriend and father of her child, the deliciously despicable Tommy Lee Royce.
In the course of two seasons, Royce kidnaps a girl, almost sets his son on fire in a houseboat, and brainwashes a woman into fulfilling his nefarious deeds for him while he remains trapped in prison.
