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Thrillers: Christmas fluff vs Polish noir
JONAH RASKIN compares the tepid fare of the Netflix series Black Doves with a gritty Polish alternative

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 hitwomen mostly only kill when it can’t be avoided and when they have to kill to save their own skins.

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