#killing eve reactions ke s4

[wearevillaneve]

You know how AMC, BBC America, and Sid Gentle have tried to act as if they aren't paying attention to the posts, the tweets, the reviews, the billboard, the tributes, and the blistering condemnation of Killing Eve's trash final season? They played themselves by turning off the comments.

They acknowledged they are paying attention. They heard and they read and they saw and they KNOW.

They got the message. And they're scared shitless.

Come on out you cowards. We just wanna talk.

[uservillanelle]

the way half of the fandom are finding the parallels, writing novels in eve’s defense, analyzing the episode as a whole, freaking about about eve stripping in front of villanelle, while i’m still here like...

[sabypoo]

...To continue...

The scenes that follow show that violence is never far away.

This frame suggests the meeting between Gunn and Eve (with a machete).

Here, the atmosphere reminds me a bit of the autopsy room. Will Villanelle be captured by the Twelve to be interrogated/tortured by our newest slayer?

The fable is explained by Eve to Villanelle during this succession of violent scenes and ends with the conclusion that I myself had imagined: maybe the scorpion is not Villanelle but Eve.

I find Eve's gaze disturbed in this picture. As if she really saw the result her choices had impacted Vil. Because Vil is clearly in a state of psychological distress here. She is weakened. But can be more lucid than ever about their situations.

A new series of clips follows, where we clearly understand that the cards have been distributed. Danger is everywhere. No one is immune. Our heroines will be jostled and pushed to their limits.

Now, what all of this inspires to me?

My very first and most nagging feeling is that Season 4 will be unlike anything we've ever experienced.

It's Killing Eve without being Killing Eve.

Villanelle isn't really Villanelle anymore. She is a desperate woman, having lost all her bearings, in a state of psychological weakness. Will her quest for redemption push her to deny herself? Or will we be entitled to a reversal along the way?

For Eve too, the change is evident. Fear no longer really seems to be a brake on his progress. Eve has chosen her fight and rush into it without looking around, no matter what it takes. Her relationship with Yusuf is yet to be determined. She doesn't seem happy, she seems to be fulfilling something, through sex among other things.

In this season, Eve became Villanelle. Which intrigues me and worries me at the same time. Finally, what place does this new dynamic leave to the Villaneve couple. With all these different contents, more or less official, it is very difficult to give a trend. Villanelle seems to be the one who most seeks contact with the other. The one who needs it. Hopefully Eve's bitterness and purpose doesn't completely blind her to Vil's potential feelings about her and vice versa.

I fear that this season will once again be content with subtext to tell us about this couple. Even if this new dynamic arouses my curiosity. I'm afraid that we are only entitled to reconciliation when death knocks at the door.

But it is still far too early to know. Let's be patient.

We'll know soon enough 😉

[wearevillaneve]

[wearevillaneve]

A Twitter thread that is required reading for anyone left traumatized by that unnecessarily mean-spirited Killing Eve finale.

[wearevillaneve]

--- Randee Dawn/L.A. Times

[wearevillaneve]

It was a shit ending in April. It was still a shit ending in May and June ain't lookin' much better either.

Some of the fans have reached the acceptance part of the absurd tragedy that was the finale of Killing Eve, but the passage of time hasn't lessened how offended I was by this ugly and cruel finish to what once was my favorite television show.

I watched a livestream where one of the hosts was so horrified and hurt by the final three minutes that she broke down crying and couldn't compose herself for several minutes. Time has not darkened my empathy for her and it won't allow me to feel anything but insulted by what Laura Neal wrote and Sally Gentle approved.

I blame Sally Woodward Gentle and Laura Neal betrayed our trust. Not forgetting. Or forgiving.

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I am not someone who thinks it would have been possible for Villanelle and Eve to live happily ever after without murdering again. I don’t think they are the type of people who would have been happy that way. But I think the show could have allowed us to live in the unknown. It would have been satisfying to see them together finally, getting the payoff we deserved after all of these seasons.

Killing the main gay character was cruel. Perhaps in a show as murder-y as Killing Eve, it is ultimately the right decision to have someone die in the finale. But in doing so, she ignores the trauma that the LGBTQ+ community has endured at the hands of TV shows which refuse to give us a happy ending. Villanelle was a serial killer, yes, but she was also a character struggling to find her humanity in a world that had often discarded her. She had been cast aside by so many people so many times, and she was still hopeful enough to wonder if there could be a better world out there for her. That’s a fate that so many queer people can empathize with and relate to. Queer people who worried that they were not worthy of love saw that they were when they watched Eve and Villanelle kiss on the street. Then, Neal took that away. There are no happy endings for queer characters.

[wearevillaneve]

[wearevillaneve]

What Killing Eve did in the show’s final moment wasn’t brave or groundbreaking. It was spitting in the face of the queer audience they had garnered since that first moment where Villanelle and Eve looked at each other in the bathroom during season one. 

It was the showcase of a showrunner having no idea who those characters were. And that is what hurts the most about this. Yes, it’s another example of “Bury Your Gays,” but most importantly, it is the definition of bad writing. 

After telling the audience afterwards in interviews that Villanelle dying was Eve’s rebirth, trying to justify it by making the fans that spoke against the final moment look like fools as if they were grasping at straws that were simply not there. 

It’s looking at the audience that made you a hit TV show and saying thank you, but no thank you. 

There is no point in having four seasons of romantic build-up, only to have one half die in the last seconds of your season just to shock everyone and not give a satisfying ending to the story you have been telling. 

[wearevillaneve]

This episode — and Season Four as a whole — are noticeably underwhelming in aesthetic terms when compared to previous seasons. The majority of the action in this season takes place in dreary, overcast locations (which in itself is not the end of the world) but is disappointing when compared to the vibrant, chic scenery of Paris, Barcelona, and other cities that appeared in seasons past. Perhaps the choice to limit the variety and vibrancy of locations is a deliberate choice that mirrors Villanelle and Eve’s gradual journey towards living settled civilian lives. For a show all about a glamorous international assassin, however, the gray demeanor of Season Four feels less like an unfavorable aesthetic choice and more like a hit to an aspect of the show that, up to this point, had been one of the many things that made the series special.

The performances of the cast are consistently stellar, however. Sandra Oh’s Eve, Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn Martens, and Kim Bodnia’s Constantin Vasiliev have brought immense depth and impeccable comedic timing to “Killing Eve” since Season One. And Jodie Comer occupies a category all her own: her brilliance would shine in just about anything, but the nature of “Killing Eve” has given her unique room to play that she has taken full advantage of. The mild-mannered Liverpudlian is almost unrecognizable on screen: Her entire demeanor transforms as she not only portrays the flamboyant, charismatic Russian assassin Villanelle, but also shifts in and out of Villanelle’s various accents, personas, and false identities. Comer is an unforgettable lead from beginning to end — making a psychopathic killer a genuinely adored fan favorite — and makes the series worth finishing despite the questionable quality of its finale.

Even the best actors cannot save bad writing, though. Each season of “Killing Eve” thus far has had a different head writer, with screenwriter Laura Neal taking over as the anchor for this leg of the relay. The impression the script gave off, however, was that of resignation. For the most part, loose ends were tied. But they were tied in the simplest and least remarkable of knots, many of which were underdeveloped character deaths. Hélène, one of the highest-ranking members of the shadowy anarchist organization The Twelve, is swiftly assassinated (this plot decision is perhaps the most forgivable, as this character had only recently been given a bigger role to play). Constantin — a long-running central character — is also murdered without fanfare over a minor misunderstanding and bleeds out on the floor in a plot sequence that is given little heed elsewhere in the show.

[wearevillaneve]

It's not your imagination. A LOT of people hated the finale of Killing Eve. (KilltheTrope.org)

[wearevillaneve]

An Emmy nomination? For Laura Neal? For writing that weak-ass bullshit finale? I think NOT.

[wearevillaneve]

What's bad? Killing Eve's finale. That's what's bad.