Each episode comprises former FBI profiler Candice DeLong interviewing a woman who was convicted of a terrible crime.
But - no matter that she planned the murder, pulled the trigger, was convicted of it and now admits it to camera - Ms DeLong knows she is blameless because women don't do wrong. Instead, we must find a man from the perpetrator's past to carry every ounce of culpability and, helpfully, Ms DeLong is here to identify him: the father, son, lover, ex-husband who psychologically tortured her by requesting visitation rights or lending her money when she asked for it, man whose ex she offered to kill, man she paid to pull a trigger or man who paid her to do so.
And certainly some of the men Ms DeLong identifies are terrible people... always assuming you accept the word of a convicted murderer and, as a documentary maker, why would you not?
The premise of the show, in a nutshell, is that women have no agency and no culpability for criminal actions, even those they committed. Some of the subjects profess their innocence, which helps support Ms DeLong's world view. When one makes things awkward by admitting causing harm we can safely dismiss this by saying "she is suffering from survivor guilt." The alternative - that she accepts wrongdoing because she did wrong - is unthinkable.
Exception: we learn in Season 2 Episode 1 that Ms DeLong believes that a lesbian may have partial culpability.
