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shallownessKilling Eve 4.2 (sorry, I didn’t catch the episode’s title)
But then I’d got it wrong, as I realised while watching the ‘Previously’, it was Carolyn who had gone to Russia, nay, defected, on her personal mission of revenge.
The moves to bring down the Twelve stuff was more interesting than Villanelle’s mental breakdown and reversion to killing while at the camp at Hemel Hempstead. May’s behaviour made no sense, or maybe Villanelle’s charisma is wearing off on me. I hope they don’t continue with Villanelle seeing herself as Jesus.
I was a bit confused at the scenes before the title, but I couldn’t be bothered to find the audio described version, which might have helped. Eve was wearing a nice dress for a change, and she got a tracker on Helene. The last was the main point, right? Eve then decided that she’d take the direct approach now that she knew where Helene resided, despite Hairy Chest’s advice, and went to visit the psychiatrist to seek a second opinion and do what she was going to go anyway. Ah well, kudos for offering to cook a Frenchwoman a shepherd’s pie.
Carolyn was also wearing a great coat (a turncoat’s coat, if you will) while Villanelle’s ugly one clashed with the ugly tent) as she started her new life, didn’t get any of her demands, and caused more collateral damage than she’d meant to.
The encounter between Eve and Helene was much more like it, with Eve dancing with danger, and both being able to cope with it and not, with Helene being quite formidable, and a sexy edginess to the whole thing. So, she wants to bring down the 12 maybe, I’m not sure whether she just wants to replace its head, if I’m honest, and I can’t get too excited about whether there is a head to the 12 as Eve, Carolyn and Helene believe. (Oh, 12, bah, Vilanelle seeing herself as Jesus is going nowhere yet, is it.)
The music is still Too Much.
The Ipcress File
So, I watched the end of episode 2 and ep 3. Not ideal, obviously, to watch the last section of an episode about a week after the rest of it. ITV Hub then played up for me with the next episode but I succeeded in watching the whole thing on the same night, so I’ll take that. Of course, it could be my internet connection.
Anyhow, we learned that our spies had been fooled because the ordinary-seeming woman was in the pay of the kidnapper. Fortunately, they got a break, which seemed mighty convenient to me, I wonder if it would have had I been able to watch the whole episode in one go, because the kidnapped physicist’s colleague was arrested for carrying on with a man and had drugs on him. After leaning on him, he gave them a clue. Except of course Harry and Jean were too late. The suggestion that the now dead psychiatrist had started to break the physicist would be followed through in the next ep.
In which Harry and Jean got to go to Beirut while Dalby was still in London. I didn’t love the intercutting between the two locations, although it moved the plot on handily. But I love how they’ve done the previouslies, with scenes playing out on the coloured blocks as the names of the actors and so on are shown above.
Harry and we learned that Jean’s fiancée broke things off because She Lied (about spying.) She admitted that she wasn’t devastated, although for all her declarations about loving her job and being good at it (which she mostly is, except when she loses her cool and decides to rile the chauvinist dodgy police officer,) this is Harry’s story. So she can observe that their male boss gets away with lying to his wife about his job for decades, which we saw in a scene clearly, knowingly written post Brexit. But said boss, who must know she isn’t going to get married and leave now, is more interested in Harry the protégé, who has to deal with being a newbie on a job he was unexpectedly thrown into.
Still, we had a classic girl saves boy who won’t use guns (although Harry was justified because they’d have found the weapon whilst patting him down, which might have made things unfold differently. Oh, and I loved his consternation and admission that he hadn’t been cool headed enough to have remembered the wallet.) But there was also a lot of Jean waiting behind and letting Harry go into the building where their quarry had just been removed.
Her emotional stuff was mainly romantic, as the local embassy bloke sided with her ex and was nasty to her, as, in her way, was her mother. We finally got a kiss between Harry and Jean, although it was interrupted and then Harry backed off. This was after a very unsexy trip to their impending doom in a car boot, about which my main thought was, ‘Well, this is no Out of Sight.’ And then, ‘Hello, convenient Deus Ex Machina/Established Ally.’ Everyone seems to be shipping them, or assuming that a working female-male partnership are a couple, about which they’re not entirely wrong.
Yikes, the American military chap is scary with his mission. For me, there was just enough historical grounding to point us, an audience about sixty years on, to motivations, from the nod to the Cuban missile crisis influencing states, to Harry’s Korean war experiences making him reluctant to use guns and take lives, while the men a generation (and more) older were influenced by their experiences above and in Japan, and that influenced their feeling about nuclear weapons. On the other hand, the Soviet general’s speech about his views sounded very different in March 2022 than it must have when written or filmed.
I have no idea who wants the physicist if it’s not the Soviet Union.
Dalby was less compromised than the suspicious Americans thought, but more compromised than we’d hoped, as the Russian general dangled another nuclear scientist before him, a Russian lady one who he obviously had had a thing with (I feel much sorrier for his wife than for James who laid hands on his fiancée) in exchange for a dossier. (Is that The Ipcress File or is that a total Macguffin?)
I love watching Jean’s various looks, ranging from being on the verge of the Swinging Sixties with her hair down and in less formal clothes to the return of the pill-box hat, but this show is from a more male POV than it thinks it is. (Male protag, adapted by a man from a novel by a man.) I was confused about who turned up at the end – the dodgy cop, yes, but did he or some other party spirit away the confused physicist and his abductor?
[Edited for typos 27/12/24.]
But then I’d got it wrong, as I realised while watching the ‘Previously’, it was Carolyn who had gone to Russia, nay, defected, on her personal mission of revenge.
The moves to bring down the Twelve stuff was more interesting than Villanelle’s mental breakdown and reversion to killing while at the camp at Hemel Hempstead. May’s behaviour made no sense, or maybe Villanelle’s charisma is wearing off on me. I hope they don’t continue with Villanelle seeing herself as Jesus.
I was a bit confused at the scenes before the title, but I couldn’t be bothered to find the audio described version, which might have helped. Eve was wearing a nice dress for a change, and she got a tracker on Helene. The last was the main point, right? Eve then decided that she’d take the direct approach now that she knew where Helene resided, despite Hairy Chest’s advice, and went to visit the psychiatrist to seek a second opinion and do what she was going to go anyway. Ah well, kudos for offering to cook a Frenchwoman a shepherd’s pie.
Carolyn was also wearing a great coat (a turncoat’s coat, if you will) while Villanelle’s ugly one clashed with the ugly tent) as she started her new life, didn’t get any of her demands, and caused more collateral damage than she’d meant to.
The encounter between Eve and Helene was much more like it, with Eve dancing with danger, and both being able to cope with it and not, with Helene being quite formidable, and a sexy edginess to the whole thing. So, she wants to bring down the 12 maybe, I’m not sure whether she just wants to replace its head, if I’m honest, and I can’t get too excited about whether there is a head to the 12 as Eve, Carolyn and Helene believe. (Oh, 12, bah, Vilanelle seeing herself as Jesus is going nowhere yet, is it.)
The music is still Too Much.
The Ipcress File
So, I watched the end of episode 2 and ep 3. Not ideal, obviously, to watch the last section of an episode about a week after the rest of it. ITV Hub then played up for me with the next episode but I succeeded in watching the whole thing on the same night, so I’ll take that. Of course, it could be my internet connection.
Anyhow, we learned that our spies had been fooled because the ordinary-seeming woman was in the pay of the kidnapper. Fortunately, they got a break, which seemed mighty convenient to me, I wonder if it would have had I been able to watch the whole episode in one go, because the kidnapped physicist’s colleague was arrested for carrying on with a man and had drugs on him. After leaning on him, he gave them a clue. Except of course Harry and Jean were too late. The suggestion that the now dead psychiatrist had started to break the physicist would be followed through in the next ep.
In which Harry and Jean got to go to Beirut while Dalby was still in London. I didn’t love the intercutting between the two locations, although it moved the plot on handily. But I love how they’ve done the previouslies, with scenes playing out on the coloured blocks as the names of the actors and so on are shown above.
Harry and we learned that Jean’s fiancée broke things off because She Lied (about spying.) She admitted that she wasn’t devastated, although for all her declarations about loving her job and being good at it (which she mostly is, except when she loses her cool and decides to rile the chauvinist dodgy police officer,) this is Harry’s story. So she can observe that their male boss gets away with lying to his wife about his job for decades, which we saw in a scene clearly, knowingly written post Brexit. But said boss, who must know she isn’t going to get married and leave now, is more interested in Harry the protégé, who has to deal with being a newbie on a job he was unexpectedly thrown into.
Still, we had a classic girl saves boy who won’t use guns (although Harry was justified because they’d have found the weapon whilst patting him down, which might have made things unfold differently. Oh, and I loved his consternation and admission that he hadn’t been cool headed enough to have remembered the wallet.) But there was also a lot of Jean waiting behind and letting Harry go into the building where their quarry had just been removed.
Her emotional stuff was mainly romantic, as the local embassy bloke sided with her ex and was nasty to her, as, in her way, was her mother. We finally got a kiss between Harry and Jean, although it was interrupted and then Harry backed off. This was after a very unsexy trip to their impending doom in a car boot, about which my main thought was, ‘Well, this is no Out of Sight.’ And then, ‘Hello, convenient Deus Ex Machina/Established Ally.’ Everyone seems to be shipping them, or assuming that a working female-male partnership are a couple, about which they’re not entirely wrong.
Yikes, the American military chap is scary with his mission. For me, there was just enough historical grounding to point us, an audience about sixty years on, to motivations, from the nod to the Cuban missile crisis influencing states, to Harry’s Korean war experiences making him reluctant to use guns and take lives, while the men a generation (and more) older were influenced by their experiences above and in Japan, and that influenced their feeling about nuclear weapons. On the other hand, the Soviet general’s speech about his views sounded very different in March 2022 than it must have when written or filmed.
I have no idea who wants the physicist if it’s not the Soviet Union.
Dalby was less compromised than the suspicious Americans thought, but more compromised than we’d hoped, as the Russian general dangled another nuclear scientist before him, a Russian lady one who he obviously had had a thing with (I feel much sorrier for his wife than for James who laid hands on his fiancée) in exchange for a dossier. (Is that The Ipcress File or is that a total Macguffin?)
I love watching Jean’s various looks, ranging from being on the verge of the Swinging Sixties with her hair down and in less formal clothes to the return of the pill-box hat, but this show is from a more male POV than it thinks it is. (Male protag, adapted by a man from a novel by a man.) I was confused about who turned up at the end – the dodgy cop, yes, but did he or some other party spirit away the confused physicist and his abductor?
[Edited for typos 27/12/24.]
