Killing Eve
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Lately, I have been thinking of hunger.
Not the kind rooted in physical need, but the emotional kind, which is harder to quell.
SoKilling Eveis perhaps right on time, considering its a show about the sometimes corrupting hungers of women.
Killing Eveis, arguably, in a precarious position going into season three.
When I first met Maria I thought … great shoes.
When Villanelle fully catches sight of Dasha she follows her first impulse, tackling her to the floor.
Dasha is here for a reason.
But Villanelle wants more for herself.
Power is there for the taking, Dasha advises Villanelle.
She just needs to be slow and careful in the taking of it.
Full benefits, Dasha says, but Villanelle has to prove shes ready.
Her eyes go glassy with tears even though shes facing away from the shopkeeper.
I almost believed her.
The shopkeeper, unaware of fate creeping ever closer, mentions saffron to aid the grandfathers heart.
Its an act of kindness met with Villanelle harshly moving the ladder so the woman tumbles to the floor.
But she isnt dead.
Villanelle is surprised by the shopkeepers hands around her throat.
She finishes the shopkeeper by pounding a jar against her skull again and again.
Sandra Oh brings grace to the raw-nerved loneliness that Eve carries just beneath the surface of her numbness.
Its understandable why shes doing this.
Her hunger had repercussions.
It got people killed.
It effectively ground down her marriage, which Niko isnt afraid to tell her.
And more than you.
Eve is beaten down enough by herself and her circumstances.
Can she catch a break?
Or will joy remain out of reach for her?
No one can move through life completely alone.
Okay, maybe thats kind of creepy.
Buried, Kenny responds in understanding.
Were able to glean a bit of information, though, from this conversation.
Eve survived because tourists happened upon her in Rome.
But Eve doesnt want to hear anything about MI6 shutting down the investigation, or the accounts activity.
Shes done with Villanelle.
Shes done with all of it.
he asks in the seemingly empty rooms.
When Eve goes to the Bitter Pill offices, she cant find Kenny.
Calling his phone she finds it on a desk, unattended.
she asks in the same moment his body drops behind her, catapulting toward the ground.
Eve rushes to get downstairs, where she finds Kenny dead on the asphalt.
When Eve looks upward, she doesnt see anyone.
He was kind, empathetic, and firm in his moral compass.
It will be intriguing to see how the show handles this void going forward.
Shes done it enough times.
Carolyn, annoyed but refusing to be baited, simply replies, Divorces are easy.
Its marriages that are impossibly hard.
Best outfit of the week: Villanelles black wedding suit, definitely eye-catching but simple.
