Femme Fatales

Storyline

This anthology series was about powerful, lovely and dangerous women inspired by and styled in the tradition of pulp stories, film noir, and graphic novels. The half-hour program featured stories inspired by such noir classics as Double Indemnity (1944) and Pulp Fiction (1994) and classic thriller TV series like The Twilight Zone (1959). In each of stand-alone episode, women found extraordinary ways of coping with their problems, channeling their survival instincts, and bringing out their inner guile. Every episode was introduced by a mysterious and enigmatic host, Lilith (Tanit Phoenix), and featured different casts and plot lines, some of which were intertwined as part of the series' overall mythology.