
– Five stars for the new series of Successionīut equally we know that bad people, whether predators or murderers or otherwise, are not immediately identifiable by either their looks or the way they present themselves – hence why, in real life, there are regularly stories of people guilty of the most heinous acts, in which neighbours, colleagues or acquaintances remark how ordinary they seemed, or what a "family man" they appeared to be. That's why, from Freddy Kreuger in Nightmare on Elm Street to Rami Malek’s character Lyutsifer Safin in the new Bond film No Time To Die, villainy has been visually coded via the extremely prejudicial use of facial disfigurements.
A cliché about villains propagated by film and TV is that they’re physically conspicuous, and so anyone with eyes can see they are a threat.
