It is strange to feel relief watching a gruesome show about a serial killer, but that is the reaction to Hulu's "Furious." The series began as a high-gloss "Law & Order" analogue but quickly became the anti-"Law & Order." It is also the first true post-Epstein thriller. Viewers expecting standard procedural justice will find something more harrowing. The show stars Lola Petticrew as an avenging murderess and Emmy Rossum as the agent on her tail.

Unlike typical cop shows, it does not offer tidy resolutions. Ms. Rossum developed the series with creator Liz Meriwether. The plot centers on Alice Black, a former detective turned FBI agent sorting through an abusive relationship with another cop. Nora Washington, head of the FBI's sex crimes unit played by Quincy Tyler Bernstine, has lost faith in the system.

Catherine, played by Mx. Petticrew, is a terrifying killer who is also a terrified victim. Trafficked as a girl, she seeks revenge against powerful abusers.

The series indicts a social system that damages and discards women. It precisely captures the day-in-and-day-out emotional toll of living in a society that perpetually victimizes women. The show avoids being prim or scolding.

It exists only now, after real-world exposure of patriarchal abuse, specifically referencing the Epstein case. It forces a reckoning with who was entertained by the trauma and who looked away.