#Watching the penultimate episode of His Dark Materials (S03e07). Marisa Coulter, played with terrifying brilliance by Ruth Wilson, has got be one of the most impressively written woman characters in speculative fiction. At least among those written by men.
I don't want to say too much, for those who have neither read the books nor seen the full series. But some of her character moments, and the transformations she goes through ... words fail me. Not common.