More weekend TV
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shallownessKilling Eve 1.8 God, I’m Tired
Season finale (and a year of dodging spoilers ahead!)
Moments to make you jump: Anna killing herself. Moments to keep you at the edge of your seat: the final encounter between Eve and Villanelle, and Villanelle’s overconfidence bringing her a cropper again. Moments to make you laugh: Villanelle and Irina ‘hanging’ – yes, she’s annoying, but there’s a spin-off in the making given what Irina experienced; Eve fiddling with the handle in Konstantin’s car and then seeing the gun. Lots of that. Carolyn realising the situation was a bit out of her control, but then finding her power again. Me going ‘poor Kenny’ a lot. And Eve being obsessed and determined (she’s a bit like Colombo), and she did promise she’d kill Villanelle after all, even if it got a lot more complicated. Speaking of complicated: Anna/Oksana.
Konstantin got a good send-off, with them playing on Villanelle as a daughter figure. And while Eve knew he was lying to her, she didn’t know the truth about him.
And the grumpy old lady being a quite competent spy!
Eve’s rampage of Villanelle’s flat was powerful. I didn’t think either of them would kill each other, because a second series has been commissioned (and where does her sacking leave Eve, not to mention Carolyn’s position in the twelve (right?)) as to what happens next?) But spending more time together, being accountable to each other after the past few episodes of this growing dyad and then a bloody act of violence feels about right.
Well played everyone.
Monarch of the Glen update: we’re in series 3, and after some more communication fail, Archie and Katrina are over (the credits tell us so). Enter Stella Moon – I’m sure I saw the actress on stage in The Taming of the Shrew to sexually harass Duncan, who didn’t mind, but this dates the show more than the mobile phones. Archie spent two episodes, rightly, apologising, and then it was Stella’s turn. Molly was the best of them, except when it was Golly, and watching the show in blocks of eps, it’s obvious that they’re repeating patterns, which leads to character regression (mostly by Lexie).
The Little Drummer Girl – episode 2
I loved the imagined backstory playing out in front of us. A few points where I was confused, though. But it was all ‘I’ve been kidnapped by an experimental theatre group’ fun until the final scene, when it got real for Charlie, and I remembered that I laughed at Jose when he said ‘no killing’. (I’m calling him Jose because I don’t remember all four, no five of Alexander Skarsgard’s character’s names or which one is real/probably on his birth certificate.)
It was a good episode for Skarsgard, because his character is not required to be as attention-grabbing as the other two leads, but we got him take on another character, doing his job with reluctance. (He makes for a very Scandinavian Israeli pretending to be Palestinian is my only quibble with the casting.)
And we got some of Florence Pugh clashing with Michael Shannon. I knew he was good, but I’d only seen her in The Falling (where I thought Maisie Williams was stronger, but that was a few years ago and Pugh’s first film role.)
Still stylish (was it a stylistic choice to make nearly everything look fresh out of the box?). Quite a few moments where everyone was posed like statues around Charlie…in Greece. Will there be a sudden 1970s revival in fashion? I did want the red dress with black slashes that the black lady with the sudden English accent wore.
Season finale (and a year of dodging spoilers ahead!)
Moments to make you jump: Anna killing herself. Moments to keep you at the edge of your seat: the final encounter between Eve and Villanelle, and Villanelle’s overconfidence bringing her a cropper again. Moments to make you laugh: Villanelle and Irina ‘hanging’ – yes, she’s annoying, but there’s a spin-off in the making given what Irina experienced; Eve fiddling with the handle in Konstantin’s car and then seeing the gun. Lots of that. Carolyn realising the situation was a bit out of her control, but then finding her power again. Me going ‘poor Kenny’ a lot. And Eve being obsessed and determined (she’s a bit like Colombo), and she did promise she’d kill Villanelle after all, even if it got a lot more complicated. Speaking of complicated: Anna/Oksana.
Konstantin got a good send-off, with them playing on Villanelle as a daughter figure. And while Eve knew he was lying to her, she didn’t know the truth about him.
And the grumpy old lady being a quite competent spy!
Eve’s rampage of Villanelle’s flat was powerful. I didn’t think either of them would kill each other, because a second series has been commissioned (and where does her sacking leave Eve, not to mention Carolyn’s position in the twelve (right?)) as to what happens next?) But spending more time together, being accountable to each other after the past few episodes of this growing dyad and then a bloody act of violence feels about right.
Well played everyone.
Monarch of the Glen update: we’re in series 3, and after some more communication fail, Archie and Katrina are over (the credits tell us so). Enter Stella Moon – I’m sure I saw the actress on stage in The Taming of the Shrew to sexually harass Duncan, who didn’t mind, but this dates the show more than the mobile phones. Archie spent two episodes, rightly, apologising, and then it was Stella’s turn. Molly was the best of them, except when it was Golly, and watching the show in blocks of eps, it’s obvious that they’re repeating patterns, which leads to character regression (mostly by Lexie).
The Little Drummer Girl – episode 2
I loved the imagined backstory playing out in front of us. A few points where I was confused, though. But it was all ‘I’ve been kidnapped by an experimental theatre group’ fun until the final scene, when it got real for Charlie, and I remembered that I laughed at Jose when he said ‘no killing’. (I’m calling him Jose because I don’t remember all four, no five of Alexander Skarsgard’s character’s names or which one is real/probably on his birth certificate.)
It was a good episode for Skarsgard, because his character is not required to be as attention-grabbing as the other two leads, but we got him take on another character, doing his job with reluctance. (He makes for a very Scandinavian Israeli pretending to be Palestinian is my only quibble with the casting.)
And we got some of Florence Pugh clashing with Michael Shannon. I knew he was good, but I’d only seen her in The Falling (where I thought Maisie Williams was stronger, but that was a few years ago and Pugh’s first film role.)
Still stylish (was it a stylistic choice to make nearly everything look fresh out of the box?). Quite a few moments where everyone was posed like statues around Charlie…in Greece. Will there be a sudden 1970s revival in fashion? I did want the red dress with black slashes that the black lady with the sudden English accent wore.
