TV Review: Killing Eve Season 3 Is So Badass- A Quarantine MUST!
I am a MAJOR FAN of Killing Eve. The show is smart, adventurous, and creates characters that, whether you like them our not, are distinctly memorable. Each actor gives their role an essence that makes you imitate and imagine their lives in your mind, which is what most of the 4 billion people in quarantine, across the globe, are doing: imagining. Not every show has that capacity, and Season 3 picks up right after what fell like the whole purpose of the show….. Eve’s “death.”
Sanda Oh as Eve is gut-wrenching, particularly for people who understand how debilitating a physical injury can be for life. Yes, she survived, but spiritually and physically she is not the same. She can’t seem to find any peace, which takes her to strange, even meaty lengths to find some sense of stability, especially when it comes to love. Frankly, I never liked Eve’s husband, Owen McDonnell as Niko, and I am happy to say…… I still don’t. In some ways that was the public’s fascination in her bond with Villanelle. They both felt powerful and smart enough for each other, but the very, big lacking key was love; were either of them truly capable of giving and receiving love? Maybe, that is why they can’t help but enter a new underground of death and mystery in the form of The Twelve. (Think Illuminati!)
Break Up | Killing Eve Season 3 Returns Sunday, April 12 at 9pm | BBC America & AMC
Is Jodie Comer perfection as Villanelle? I don’t know…. you have to ask God. IN MY OPINION, YES! Her mannerisms and movements are raw and terrifying, especially this season because she is a sociopath exploring her …. humanity…… her past…. and family? Yes, Villanelle is on a journey to fin love and her place in the world now that she, “technically”, took out the person that was supposed to be both. The magic of Comer’s Villanelle is that she could be ice cold and then tremendously sentimental; she manipulated audiences as much as Eve and her surroundings to feel for her as if there was some light in a person that lived to kill others. Thus, Villanelle is put into postilions we have never seen her before, in terms of emotions and trying to make connections, which leads to hilarity and, of course, ACTION! Yet, The tragedy of Eve and Villanelle, particularly in this season, is that both of them realize there is no “white-picket fence” for them.
Killing Eve: Series 3 Trailer – BBC
There is no mystical time and space where they are happy, healthy, free of drama, and loved by others in a beautiful, lavish mansion. So….. then what? Do you embrace the darkness as a constant or continue in an endless war to shoo it our of your life? With this notion characters like, Fiona Shaw’ s Carolyn Martens and Kim Bodnia’s Konstantin come back as we love to deliciously hate. Yet, their importance characters feels more nuanced in Season 3 because of the latter them. Both actors make their characters firm and open to the fact that when you live your life in the shadows, you have to accept “love” is not something you can easily find or feel. Ultimately, Killing Eve Season 3 truly is a step up. Each season has been better than the last because it feels like its writers, cast, and directors measure the show as a story you grow: not just one you tell.
