Killing Eve season 3 opener
Apr. 18th, 2020 02:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I expect I’ll be watching this on iPlayer, but not first thing on a Monday morning.
I blithely waved off the ‘disturbing scenes’ warning, but KENNY! Just as he seemed to be minimally growing up, even if I couldn’t believe he was being left to investigate what he liked without writing anything for a website, even if it was working out of the grimiest little dump. The contrast between shabby, grey England and the Med was pointed.
So, we met Dasha. It’s juicier role for Harriet Water than she has in Belgravia. Basically Dasha is not Konstatin, so her relationship with Villainelle is overshadowed. I suppose she’s a quasi maternal figure, all mentor-protégé, except I got hung up on why they were talking English now and where this training fitted into Villanelle’s past. But I do like Dasha the rage monster.
The way she killed the male gymnast was more subversive than Villanelle’s schadenfreude at the shop. But then, unlike her, we know Eve survived. The wedding felt like a retread, except that the bride looked extremely stupid.
Putting us in the Korean society of New Malden was…a choice (I’m assuming it was Sandra Oh wanting to explore that part of Eve), and I did fall for it in that I was surprised Eve wasn’t abroad. So, still alive but depressed, Eve shuffled through her existence, and I think Nico finally broke up with her.
Carolyn had a new in-house antagonist we want her to beat, although her boss made excellent points about her failings, and she wouldn’t apoloise to Kenny. But the new MI6 guy is hard to care about – will he last the season?
Hugo is also still alive (ugh, but the show killed Kenny, and though I get it’s a great way to bring Carolyn and Eve back together and Eve back in the game, and it was probably a rival assassin for Villanelle to deal with, I am sad.) It’s totally believable that he would sue MI6.
In moments, it’s fab, thrilling, a chance to watch dark fantasies up on screen, with the quirky, humanising/relatable details still present and correct, but as with season 2, as I hear similar music playing, I’m thinking ‘diminishing returns?’
I expect I’ll be watching this on iPlayer, but not first thing on a Monday morning.
I blithely waved off the ‘disturbing scenes’ warning, but KENNY! Just as he seemed to be minimally growing up, even if I couldn’t believe he was being left to investigate what he liked without writing anything for a website, even if it was working out of the grimiest little dump. The contrast between shabby, grey England and the Med was pointed.
So, we met Dasha. It’s juicier role for Harriet Water than she has in Belgravia. Basically Dasha is not Konstatin, so her relationship with Villainelle is overshadowed. I suppose she’s a quasi maternal figure, all mentor-protégé, except I got hung up on why they were talking English now and where this training fitted into Villanelle’s past. But I do like Dasha the rage monster.
The way she killed the male gymnast was more subversive than Villanelle’s schadenfreude at the shop. But then, unlike her, we know Eve survived. The wedding felt like a retread, except that the bride looked extremely stupid.
Putting us in the Korean society of New Malden was…a choice (I’m assuming it was Sandra Oh wanting to explore that part of Eve), and I did fall for it in that I was surprised Eve wasn’t abroad. So, still alive but depressed, Eve shuffled through her existence, and I think Nico finally broke up with her.
Carolyn had a new in-house antagonist we want her to beat, although her boss made excellent points about her failings, and she wouldn’t apoloise to Kenny. But the new MI6 guy is hard to care about – will he last the season?
Hugo is also still alive (ugh, but the show killed Kenny, and though I get it’s a great way to bring Carolyn and Eve back together and Eve back in the game, and it was probably a rival assassin for Villanelle to deal with, I am sad.) It’s totally believable that he would sue MI6.
In moments, it’s fab, thrilling, a chance to watch dark fantasies up on screen, with the quirky, humanising/relatable details still present and correct, but as with season 2, as I hear similar music playing, I’m thinking ‘diminishing returns?’
