blackhearted

The blackhearted heroine is sadistic, fearless and full of fantastically sardonic one-liners.

A kind of gravitational pull emanates from Aubrey Plaza as the title character in “Emily the Criminal,” a passably diverting crime thriller where, in place of a moral center, Plaza delivers a performance that is entertainingly blackhearted.

Bill Hader may be the objective center of "Barry," but the character that best personifies the show's blackhearted absurdity is Anthony Carrigan's Chechen mob boss NoHo Hank.

What emerges from a series of shady, fraudulent activities is the profile of a blackhearted con man, a Dirty John of the bird world — “the Pablo Escobar of the falcon egg trade,” as some call him.

There’s the greatest television show of the year, “Succession,” which just wrapped its second season with a satisfyingly blackhearted reversal.