Killing Eve

[Aladdin]

That’s what I mean. It’s enjoyable but it’s just whatever nonsense they feel like.

I've watched the first 3 episodes of season 3 and am completely lost.

Season 1 was excellent.
Season 2 was good
But this? The plot is all over the place. Disappointed.

 

[RubyToogood]

Having watched the final two episodes last night I fell down a bit of a subreddit rabbit hole on some of the issues around LGBTQ representation that have been thrown up.

I didn't previously know about queerbaiting - it is when a programme hints at a same sex relationship, and thus draws in an LGBTQ audience, but doesn't acknowledge it. There have been accusations of this for previous series, although it did start to be more acknowledged and developed.

A lot of LGBTQ fans are quite angry about the ending of the series for falling into a cliché of

Spoiler

killing off one of the lovers just as they get together, ie not allowing them to just live and be together in a lesbian relationship. Obviously it's complicated by the fact that Villanelle is a psychopathic killer, but in some ways that makes it more problematic rather than less, if the only lesbians we ever see on screen are evil, tortured and doomed. Particularly when you know that the books end with them living together as a couple.

 

[editor]

I've watched the first 3 episodes of season 3 and am completely lost.

Season 1 was excellent.
Season 2 was good
But this? The plot is all over the place. Disappointed.

I got as far as two episodes and bailed.

 

[Epona]

I kind of drifted away from it halfway through season 3.

OH has watched the lot, he didn't spoil it for me (as I will probably catch up at some point), but he was utterly fuming at the ending.

 

[belboid]

I got as far as two episodes and bailed.

The first two were completely and utterly pointless. It got better for the next few. Then dived right back into crap again.

The cliches RubyToogood noted were shoved in your face. And while the ‘thing that happened’ kinda had to for the reasons RT says, KE was meant to be more inventive than that, it should tried to subvert those cliches in some ways, or at the very least made it spectacular and absurd. But it was just dull and grossly implausible. I mean

Caroline fucks off her last remaining ally and is all alone, but somehow calls in a crack marksman who immediately turns up and does the do. Wtf?

Made the ending of GoT look like genius in comparison.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've just been reminded by likes from this thread that I didn't finish Killing Eve. No deliberate decision: I just sort of lost interest and forgot to go back. Now I've been reminded, I don't think I'll bother. I'll remember it how it was.

 

[RubyToogood]

I've just been reminded by likes from this thread that I didn't finish Killing Eve. No deliberate decision: I just sort of lost interest and forgot to go back. Now I've been reminded, I don't think I'll bother. I'll remember it how it was.

I would still have been sorry not to have seen the last episode. The Gunn subplot is entertaining too.

 

[Nikkormat]

I really enjoyed the first series - great sets, great costumes, sharp dialogue, interesting plot; the second was good but not great; the third was shit; I hoped they would pull it back on track with the fourth, but it was complete drivel from start to finish. Even the sets and costumes lacked sparkle, the plot was non-existent and the script could have been written by an average 10 year old. Waste of time.

 

[nagapie]

Who needs plot when you've got Carolyn, Villanelle, Eve, Helene and Pamela.
Loved it all.

 

[Dovydaitis]

Who needs plot when you've got Carolyn, Villanelle, Eve, Helene and Pamela.
Loved it all.

And Konstantin. Couldn’t help but smile when he appeared

 

[girasol]

Another one here who loved the first series, thought the 2nd one was meh and hasn't gotten past episode 3 on this season.

 

[T & P]

In Soviet Russia, Eve kills you.