Weekend telly
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shallownessKilling Eve 1.3 Don’t I Know You?
Every episode, I have to adjust to the fact that it’s only 45 minutes long. No ad breaks to pad it out on BBC One, and its shorter than Bodyguard and their usual dramas are, plus I’m enjoying it, so it flies by. (The last show that I’d have had this experience with would have been the first seasons of Orphan Black, I suppose.) So, just as I’m going ‘It that it? But I want more!’, we get the teaser for the next episode, which I think is a bit too spoilericious.
Case in point, it was pretty obvious that Bill was going to end up on Villanelle’s radar and cark it in this episode. Ah, well, the journey that got us there was good, and, as in the hospital scene in episode one, it was a reminder that it’s a dark comedy about a psychopathic serial killer/assassin. But when it’s personal, it’s a much more vicious kill, apparently, because she could have just stabbed him once.
It also ramped up the obsession from both ladies, from Villanelle giving Eve’s name as her own, to Eve’s detailed description of someone she’d had a very brief convo with. I’m always in surprised awe of anyone helping to create e-fits based on memory. I think Team Off the Books (koff Eve) were a little naïve about what it meant that Villanelle had used Eve’s name. It was obviously a message of some sort and they didn’t try to understand it. But I would imagine what ensued this episode will grit Eve up a bit, with no more ‘oh, I lost my case but my companion didn’t, what a coincidence.’
Villanelle’s handler came to scold her a little for staying in Berlin and give her the cover to do what she was doing anyway. And then yet another of Villanelle’s sexual conquests turned up, only this time, the poor woman had been seduced into living out Villanelle’s Eve-fixated fantasies. Just, whoa.
Meanwhile Eve couldn’t hide how much she was loving her job from her husband, and the job interview conversation with her boss in the first episode about it maybe being better for him to think she was having an affair sounded in my mind. The way he left her hanging after a kiss that seemed to be leading somewhere was explained by the fact she’d forgotten the dinner to go to Berlin with Bill (but mainly be obsessed by Villanelle). Ouch.
And Bill was done for by overconfidence. Well, Villanelle did it, really, but he should have told Eve he’d thought he’d seen her in the crowd, and though he did call for back up later, the moment where she, the pursued, turned on him, the pursuer, was inevitable. Just after we’d learned so much backstory and met his baby daughter and all.
He was really working the Mark Rylance look, no?
The Chinese attaché was wrong-footing fun, and maybe gave a glimpse into why Villanelle’s employers are out for her paid targets, although I doubt finding out about them is why anyone is watching this show.
Strictly Results
Strong opening number, although there was a bit of ‘why so angry?’, but by the time they were all on their individual lit-up square I was swept along by it.
In the recap, a key quote was Lee saying he could do that again. FORESHADOWING.
The results were called in three blocks of five. Katie was a surprise, and then there was loads of time to wonder if the people in the middle were in trouble.
Although I liked the brass section, they might as well have had Kevin and Dianne on stage throughout George Ezra’s performance. I liked bits of their routine, though the feel was weirdly stylised for the song and it seemed super quick for it.
Given that they’d said so little about Kate, why not include her in the judges’ chance to expand on their comments? Oh, so that Craig and Shirley could continue with their argument, with Craig’s love of drama winning out on his pedantry, and Bruno being Bruno.
Claudia wearing a splash of metallic colour is duly noted. I loved the green of Shirley’d dress, though not the detail in close up, and I loved the style of Darcy’s.
As even Susannah acknowledged, the viewing public made the right call on putting her in the bottom. I did think they both danced better.
RAMP UP THE HYSTERIA FOR NEXT WEEK. (Though I’m looking forward to Danny’s The Greatest Showman routine, yes.)
Every episode, I have to adjust to the fact that it’s only 45 minutes long. No ad breaks to pad it out on BBC One, and its shorter than Bodyguard and their usual dramas are, plus I’m enjoying it, so it flies by. (The last show that I’d have had this experience with would have been the first seasons of Orphan Black, I suppose.) So, just as I’m going ‘It that it? But I want more!’, we get the teaser for the next episode, which I think is a bit too spoilericious.
Case in point, it was pretty obvious that Bill was going to end up on Villanelle’s radar and cark it in this episode. Ah, well, the journey that got us there was good, and, as in the hospital scene in episode one, it was a reminder that it’s a dark comedy about a psychopathic serial killer/assassin. But when it’s personal, it’s a much more vicious kill, apparently, because she could have just stabbed him once.
It also ramped up the obsession from both ladies, from Villanelle giving Eve’s name as her own, to Eve’s detailed description of someone she’d had a very brief convo with. I’m always in surprised awe of anyone helping to create e-fits based on memory. I think Team Off the Books (koff Eve) were a little naïve about what it meant that Villanelle had used Eve’s name. It was obviously a message of some sort and they didn’t try to understand it. But I would imagine what ensued this episode will grit Eve up a bit, with no more ‘oh, I lost my case but my companion didn’t, what a coincidence.’
Villanelle’s handler came to scold her a little for staying in Berlin and give her the cover to do what she was doing anyway. And then yet another of Villanelle’s sexual conquests turned up, only this time, the poor woman had been seduced into living out Villanelle’s Eve-fixated fantasies. Just, whoa.
Meanwhile Eve couldn’t hide how much she was loving her job from her husband, and the job interview conversation with her boss in the first episode about it maybe being better for him to think she was having an affair sounded in my mind. The way he left her hanging after a kiss that seemed to be leading somewhere was explained by the fact she’d forgotten the dinner to go to Berlin with Bill (but mainly be obsessed by Villanelle). Ouch.
And Bill was done for by overconfidence. Well, Villanelle did it, really, but he should have told Eve he’d thought he’d seen her in the crowd, and though he did call for back up later, the moment where she, the pursued, turned on him, the pursuer, was inevitable. Just after we’d learned so much backstory and met his baby daughter and all.
He was really working the Mark Rylance look, no?
The Chinese attaché was wrong-footing fun, and maybe gave a glimpse into why Villanelle’s employers are out for her paid targets, although I doubt finding out about them is why anyone is watching this show.
Strictly Results
Strong opening number, although there was a bit of ‘why so angry?’, but by the time they were all on their individual lit-up square I was swept along by it.
In the recap, a key quote was Lee saying he could do that again. FORESHADOWING.
The results were called in three blocks of five. Katie was a surprise, and then there was loads of time to wonder if the people in the middle were in trouble.
Although I liked the brass section, they might as well have had Kevin and Dianne on stage throughout George Ezra’s performance. I liked bits of their routine, though the feel was weirdly stylised for the song and it seemed super quick for it.
Given that they’d said so little about Kate, why not include her in the judges’ chance to expand on their comments? Oh, so that Craig and Shirley could continue with their argument, with Craig’s love of drama winning out on his pedantry, and Bruno being Bruno.
Claudia wearing a splash of metallic colour is duly noted. I loved the green of Shirley’d dress, though not the detail in close up, and I loved the style of Darcy’s.
As even Susannah acknowledged, the viewing public made the right call on putting her in the bottom. I did think they both danced better.
RAMP UP THE HYSTERIA FOR NEXT WEEK. (Though I’m looking forward to Danny’s The Greatest Showman routine, yes.)
