These Drinks Is Vicious: The Killing Eve Thread

Yeah, I think in the Hannibal thread I compared the highly watchable tension between Will/Hannibal with the leads in Killing Eve.

yeah I find it fine. thoroughly entertaining. actually I think this week's was better than the rest of the season, something needed to start happening.

will watch sooner or later but this thread is not making it sound necessary

I'm liking it a lot, too. Though agreed on the Ghost plot being anticlimactic. Was expecting Ghost vs. Villanelle skillful assassinations instead of the wrap-up, and yes, hiring Villanelle was an odd way of getting them together and reestablishing her connection with Eve. Though with Konstantin breaking off from MI6, there wasn't a direct way of messaging Villanelle, unless I missed something.

Hoping Eve's recklessness has some blowback, but as her boss is aware and monitoring Eve, maybe it's being nurtured.

Jodie Comer does such a great job selling her character's moods. "BORING!" got a big laugh.

I am wondering the point of Hugo.

His shirts are too small.

well don't know how easy it is to buy that Villanelle is now just working with them at this point, but this was my favorite episode of the second series by far.

A bit better (Jeremy Dyson script!) but basically wheel-spinning.

nah the scene with tech douche made it worthwhile to me.

I've been defending the show, but I didn't like the last episode too much--although Eve's roadside murder was great.

co-producer Phoebe insists she's still very much involved.

'I'm all across it,' she says. 'You can't get me out of any conversation about any part of the creative process.

for all the moaning about this season I do think the last few (including last nights) were some of the best episodes of the whole series.

I liked last night's too--thought Villanelle was funny the whole way through, especially with Niko and Gemma. I like how Villanelle is now involved with someone who might be more of a sociopath than she is.

Nice finale, feels like anything might happen in this show and I’m good with it, Villanelle stayed true to her character in that final scene imo

yes!!!

Didn't realize tomorrow was the season 2 finale...Thanks for keeping details oblique.

Or opaque. One of those fancy o-words.

ugh. I still love this show so much. It's so good.

I just finished it.

I've seen a 5 second trailer for the new series in the UK but there's still no schedule that I can find.

this was a fucking amazing finale. in fact it could be an amazing series finale if they decided not to bring it back, though I'm sure they will

Liked it for the most part, but found the ending a bit of a non-event. I mean, you already know there's a third season.

i’ve had days of joy from “i want the recipe to your shepherd’s pie”

The finale reminded me a lot of the Hannibal trajectory.

I also loved the shepherd's pie (and smell ya later) convo.

Season 2 was a load of bollocks tbh and I havent even watched the finale yet.

it's already been renewed for a third season

yeah, announced a couple of months ago, changing showrunners again to a Fear The Walking Dead writer

Season 2 was a load of bollocks tbh and I havent even watched the finale yet.

S2 finale was p much a replay of S1 finale: Eve and Villanelle get really close and are about to fuck / become a couple but then SPOILER one of them murders the other one, but don't worry they'll get up when we and the murderess aren't looking

Starts 8th June on BBC.

bbc sounds has put up some mixes:

Killing Eve: The Soundtracks
The Soundtrack to Series 1: Curated & mixed by David Holmes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07b7fzb
120 mins

Killing Eve: The Soundtracks
The Soundtrack to Series 2: Curated & mixed by David Holmes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07cfh5j
105 mins

and then there are these, supposedly mixtapes done by eve for villanelle and vice versa

Obsessed With...Killing Eve
Eve chooses the tracks for Villanelle
"Eve is on the hunt"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07c65zj
76 mins

Obsessed With...Killing Eve
Villanelle curates this mix just for Eve
"Villanelle has lovingly picked every single track in this mix for Eve."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07c69np
70 mins

Last episode was probably the best of this patchy and often weirdly slow season. If that actually was the end (it's wasn't) then it wouldn't have been a bad one in a brutal way.

Got a hunch season 3 will be pure rubbish.

I still haven't come back for Ep 2. Something felt off. First of all I forgot what the fuck was happening and the show did not cater for me at all. I know we're all bingers now but ... I'm not rewatching S1 just to prep. Sorry not sorry! Second of all I feel like... I've kind of seen enough of these characters? I love Sandra Oh but I don't love seeing her act helpless and crazy and borderline incompetent. I love Jodie Comer but what she does to the kid in the hospital felt out of character: paradoxically both too random AND too motivated. random because she's an assassin, not a serial killer; too motivated because i don't buy for a second that she cares about this kid's misery, much less that she'd go to such lengths to supposedly lessen it. Piecing together clues about what makes her tick was much of the pleasure of S1 - and I've kind of lost confidence that the show knows anymore, if it ever did.

Also, Parisian hospital security relaxing the rules for a second? BAHAHAHAHA

also surely no one changes their preference of smooth/crunchy peanut butter on a whim. Why does Carolyn ask her son this? It's been bugging me.

the baddie was a total non-event too; wasted opportunity

If I liked the pilot, I should just go ahead and buy the whole first season, right?

There was no pilot, but (or thus) the whole first series is p much on the same level

finished S2 out of a sense of duty, I guess? The predictable, thudding incompetence of Eve all of MI6 got really old, plus I don't really care for how much the show tries to get you to root for a child murderer. I strongly doubt we'll be fooled into picking this back up for S3.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Can we talk about the first episode of S3 yet?

Hey, I didn't know it was back! I think there are a few people on this thread who gave up on it during S2, but I'll watch for sure (my schedule is very open these days). I just hope I can catch up with the first episode before the second one airs.

I only just caught up with the whole series in the last month or so, but I had heard that a lot of viewers were dissatisfied with S2. I don't really get why; maybe I'm even more easily entertained these days than I usually am, but I found S2 to be just as solid as the first.

I'll avoid specific details for now, but the first episode of S3 showed occasional signs of strain, I thought; The AV Club recap (which I don't recommend reading until you've seen the episode) gets at why that may be, in the case of this particular episode.

Kinda don't want to say any more right now until others start talking about it.

I just checked and it looks like I can get to it through Rogers Ignite. (It's moved from Showcase to AMC.) I'll likely watch tonight.

yeah, I am also one of those people that thought season 2 was totally good.

Same problem I've had with every series ever, except for the couple where I watched the whole thing at once: I remember pretty much nothing from the end of S2. So it's going to take me two or three episodes to settle in. The Olga Korbut-like preface was a nice touch.

Still being vague for the purpose of spoiler-guarding, I liked how a nicely written and played yet seemingly extraneous moment between Carolyn and Kenny paid off dramatically.

I was just left thinking when the series was supposed to be set when I saw that acrobatics bit.
Is it supposedly current or is it a couple of decades ago.
Now thinking back I think people are using reasonably recent mobile phone apps and things aren't they?

Like obviously the acrobat was going to be a figure current to the series in much younger form.

it’s current. (the acrobat shows up in the episode—i don’t want to spoil but she has a pretty prominent role.)

A good example of how can I miss the obvious stuff in the world: I watched that episode thinking (or not thinking) that that was Villanelle in the prologue until reading this. Right, she's not over 60...

can I = I can

Worked out who it was supposed to be but for a while I was trying to think if it was supposed to be otherwise set about 20 years ago.
Was thinking at the time It might be supposed to be a Villanelle.but she'd be way too old even in that circumstance.
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My impression was that neither character seemed much different from where PWB left them at the end of Season 1. And that they can both act their socks off, but don't have much chemistry together because their relationship doesn't make much sense + Eve's "messiness" seems like a convenient way to lampshade a motiveless character

I want to read the source novels to see if that makes any more sense there. & see what has changed.

Jeez this final season was bad. I agree with cryptosicko that the finale was the best episode of this bunch but mostly made me wish Eve and Villanelle had been working together all season. Instead we got a whirlwind of underdeveloped, confusing plotlines and characters. Feel like the writers threw in every idea they could so that you didn't think too hard about the show having no purpose anymore

the dancing / killing montage was the best thing all season, everything else was just background tv

but generally i'm just glad i don't have to watch it any more

I watched this as a conpletist, but series 4 was at least 6, probably 7 episodes too long. There were fun bits, like the Jesus stuff, but they didn't contribute to the plot. Even the whole Pam thread, which went on forever, was entirely superfluous and could have been resolved in less than 10 minutes of screen time using existing characters.

I quite liked that actress in We Are Lady Parts but Pam is so superfluous to the story and not very well- defined. And then they introduced yet another barely-characterized female assassin! at some point, it becomes funny how bad it is