Killing Eve s3 finale
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shallownessKilling Eve - 3.8 Are You Leading or Am I?
My considered response to the question in the title is that Carolyn was leading.
Some of the start of the ep felt like it was just finale acceleration, although I’m not sure I’d say that if I’d just watched the previous episode. And in fairness, the Carolyn-Villanelle scene was a flashback.
Konstantin didn’t need to do anything to kill Dasha, right? She was a goner from her injuries, right? A viewership mourned that we didn’t see Shaw and Walter face off on the show.
Vllanelle was really bad at her job interview with Carolyn, as she didn’t have any useful information. And Carolyn lasered in on her identity crisis. I somewhat felt that the music people didn’t know how to handle Mahler. I think it was the transition out.
Anyway, the scene at the ballroom reminded us that the folie a deux is THE thing for both Eve and Villanelle, although the first is motivated by wanting to find out who lilled Kenny, while Villanelle’s been on a huge journey all series. They both sidetrack each other. Villanelle’s outfit looked different when she was seated and when she was dancing. I liked the real awkwardness before they found their groove dancing.
Enter the new baby killer, who turned out to be Welsh (could not resist the sheep references, could you, show? It’s not the most egregious form of racism, but it’s LAZY.) Villanelle still didn’t really want to kill, and had to resort to setting it up for someone, well, something else to finish her off. (Eve having been the train for Dasha in the previous episode.) I presumed the body would have been too crushed for them to notice she’d been in a fight previously.
Geraldine must have been the only person not to realise that the letter would absolutely fail to work well on her mother.
The attempted bribery by Eve was hilarious, although her Tallulah Shark did find a way of convincing the bookie that she was evil enough to work with Konstantin.
Meanwhile, Villanelle in her bright yellow coat of sunshine followed Carolyn’s footsetps and sauntered into the centre of drab greyness that has been Eve’s existence all series. Before that, the Three Investigators had done a better job than Villanelle at getting info (how convenient that he only remembered the camera now, after the raid, too) and we learned that Konstantin had lied about the phone call and had killed Kenny because he’d got on to him. Who knows what to believe about exactly what happened. (I wanted to say ‘it went down, “it” being Kenny’ and oh, how this show lets us all bring out our monsters.)
Paul had now figured out what Konstantin had done. Did K have a second attack in Croydon? The tussle with Eve was a little funny, especially as the two ladies didn’t trust him.
So, it all built up to a confrontation at Paul’s house. LOVED that Carolyn treated Eve an Villanelle as if they were naughty schoolgirls, and they complied with her orders inthe way they sat on the sofa, becoming an audience to a riveting scene.
However, killing annoying Paul over the man who killed her son, however much she had cared for him? Not sure if that was emotionally true. Paul didn’t have much to do with Kenny’s death, and it was possibly a misdirect too far from the show. Am revising my sense that that’s the last we’ll see of Konstantine, even if he was The Worst this series. He and Irena were pretty great, Villanelle and Dasha wasn’t as good as Villanelle and Konstantin, and Eve was kind of still motivated to go after him.
We ended on ‘the conclusion that the Twelve are everywhere and unbeatable – I mean Paul seems like he wasn’t The Top Person. And while I was left thinking that Carolyn was pretty sure the forensics would be terrible on Paul’s death, the show returned to its main focus: the doomed love affair (or is it doomed?) at the heart of the show, with Villanelle and Eve ending up at a tres romantic London location (after ending abroad for the violent endings of the last two series). And they were obviously both on different sides of the bridge, as they mulled over who they are now and what they want quite honestly, with Villanelle being the one to offer Eve relationship advice!?!? With neither able to walk away, we had an open ending, but Villanelle may have lost her appetite for the kill, but …what future tdo they have, really? And what about the show.
It didn’t do all that well in the BAFTAs because the second season was diminishing returns on the magnificent first, (also missing Phoebe Wallter-Bridge). It’s adjusted and adapted a bit this season, which has contained many great scenes and has never been boring (although a few things are in danger of getting predictable, and you need proper tension). I don’t know if the viewers want Eve/Vilanelle to have a happy ending. Perhaps ‘consuming each other’ is the way to go. Well, I can’t speak for anyone else: I don’t know. I also don’t know how much they’re following the novellas.
Giri/Haji did do well in the BAFTA TV nominations. It feels like a very long time ago! It was stylishly daring and had THE outstanding scene of 2019 for me.
My considered response to the question in the title is that Carolyn was leading.
Some of the start of the ep felt like it was just finale acceleration, although I’m not sure I’d say that if I’d just watched the previous episode. And in fairness, the Carolyn-Villanelle scene was a flashback.
Konstantin didn’t need to do anything to kill Dasha, right? She was a goner from her injuries, right? A viewership mourned that we didn’t see Shaw and Walter face off on the show.
Vllanelle was really bad at her job interview with Carolyn, as she didn’t have any useful information. And Carolyn lasered in on her identity crisis. I somewhat felt that the music people didn’t know how to handle Mahler. I think it was the transition out.
Anyway, the scene at the ballroom reminded us that the folie a deux is THE thing for both Eve and Villanelle, although the first is motivated by wanting to find out who lilled Kenny, while Villanelle’s been on a huge journey all series. They both sidetrack each other. Villanelle’s outfit looked different when she was seated and when she was dancing. I liked the real awkwardness before they found their groove dancing.
Enter the new baby killer, who turned out to be Welsh (could not resist the sheep references, could you, show? It’s not the most egregious form of racism, but it’s LAZY.) Villanelle still didn’t really want to kill, and had to resort to setting it up for someone, well, something else to finish her off. (Eve having been the train for Dasha in the previous episode.) I presumed the body would have been too crushed for them to notice she’d been in a fight previously.
Geraldine must have been the only person not to realise that the letter would absolutely fail to work well on her mother.
The attempted bribery by Eve was hilarious, although her Tallulah Shark did find a way of convincing the bookie that she was evil enough to work with Konstantin.
Meanwhile, Villanelle in her bright yellow coat of sunshine followed Carolyn’s footsetps and sauntered into the centre of drab greyness that has been Eve’s existence all series. Before that, the Three Investigators had done a better job than Villanelle at getting info (how convenient that he only remembered the camera now, after the raid, too) and we learned that Konstantin had lied about the phone call and had killed Kenny because he’d got on to him. Who knows what to believe about exactly what happened. (I wanted to say ‘it went down, “it” being Kenny’ and oh, how this show lets us all bring out our monsters.)
Paul had now figured out what Konstantin had done. Did K have a second attack in Croydon? The tussle with Eve was a little funny, especially as the two ladies didn’t trust him.
So, it all built up to a confrontation at Paul’s house. LOVED that Carolyn treated Eve an Villanelle as if they were naughty schoolgirls, and they complied with her orders inthe way they sat on the sofa, becoming an audience to a riveting scene.
However, killing annoying Paul over the man who killed her son, however much she had cared for him? Not sure if that was emotionally true. Paul didn’t have much to do with Kenny’s death, and it was possibly a misdirect too far from the show. Am revising my sense that that’s the last we’ll see of Konstantine, even if he was The Worst this series. He and Irena were pretty great, Villanelle and Dasha wasn’t as good as Villanelle and Konstantin, and Eve was kind of still motivated to go after him.
We ended on ‘the conclusion that the Twelve are everywhere and unbeatable – I mean Paul seems like he wasn’t The Top Person. And while I was left thinking that Carolyn was pretty sure the forensics would be terrible on Paul’s death, the show returned to its main focus: the doomed love affair (or is it doomed?) at the heart of the show, with Villanelle and Eve ending up at a tres romantic London location (after ending abroad for the violent endings of the last two series). And they were obviously both on different sides of the bridge, as they mulled over who they are now and what they want quite honestly, with Villanelle being the one to offer Eve relationship advice!?!? With neither able to walk away, we had an open ending, but Villanelle may have lost her appetite for the kill, but …what future tdo they have, really? And what about the show.
It didn’t do all that well in the BAFTAs because the second season was diminishing returns on the magnificent first, (also missing Phoebe Wallter-Bridge). It’s adjusted and adapted a bit this season, which has contained many great scenes and has never been boring (although a few things are in danger of getting predictable, and you need proper tension). I don’t know if the viewers want Eve/Vilanelle to have a happy ending. Perhaps ‘consuming each other’ is the way to go. Well, I can’t speak for anyone else: I don’t know. I also don’t know how much they’re following the novellas.
Giri/Haji did do well in the BAFTA TV nominations. It feels like a very long time ago! It was stylishly daring and had THE outstanding scene of 2019 for me.
