The first case was not a TV show. It happened in Dehli in Dec 2012. She died of her injuries. This is a kink to the reporting while she still lived. [m.huffpost.com]

This is a link to an article after she died [nytimes.com]

This news story was pretty widely broadcast at the time. I'm surprised, based on its heinous nature that it was forgotten. Then again, it's easy for horrible things to be remembered as fiction when you are bombarded with so much do often.

The first case is a TV show, and presumably fiction....if not then the perpetrators are undoubtedly misogynists and psychopaths. The second two cases, again I am making an assumption that they happened overseas in some Muslin country where men believe women should not be educated, but they are only the most extreme examples of misogynistic practices which are perpetrated against women by husbands and partners all over the world. It’s a form of control and it has always been the case, even in highly educated and well off families, and seems to hinge on whether the husband’s personality can handle having an educated, intelligent woman, or if his insecurities prevent him from doing so. Men do this kind of thing because they feel their masculinity and authority is being threatened, this idea being reinforced by their religious beliefs. The more religious they are, the more likely they are to feel the need to completely dominate their women, and they can always quote scripture to justify their behaviour. There is also a group of men who, for whatever reason, perhaps abandonment by their mothers in childhood, have a deep seated hatred of women and take it out on any partner unfortunate enough to find themselves in a relationship with them. I know men can suffer violence at the hands of women too....but there is absolutely no equivalence in either the number of incidents or the severity.

You might do better to ask why there is so much of this behaviour in some places on earth and less in others.

You shall never have a decent answer to this question, whilst you ask about "men".Half the world's population are men,and so such a generalisation may not be made.

In some cases it's a mental disorder. Odds are good you can find similar cases with the gender roles reversed. Because nut cases (Lorena Bobbit).

In some cases it's cultural, particularly backward, ironage cultures often supported by religions crafted in the same era. In these cases, women can be observed supporting these behaviors, like the female doctor recently charged, then acquited, for reasons I don't understand, of genital mutilation for "circumsizing" women.

In cultures where women and men are raised as equals, this is an extreme rarity. I hope it becomes more so.

Also please keep in mind atrocity and horror sell. So certain magazines will find, manufacture and sometimes inflate such stories.

In the first case, it's a TV show, and in the FB case, it sounds like stories from sociopaths with fundamentalist religious upbringing...

Sociopath plain and simple waste of skin

These men are sociopaths.

I have no idea. There must be something wrong with them.

I am not sure why someone would do something that inhumane, or why someone would want to watch something that fucked up . . . . to me, that is not entertainment, it seems to be more like sadism.