These Drinks Is Vicious: The Killing Eve Thread

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.

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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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it says 1974 (or 72) at the flashback and then later shows a much older woman in present day coaching gymnastics. I didn't think that was confusing!

If I'd taken even a second to think about it, no, not at all. But I thought Villanelle as the prologue unfolded, then never thought about it again, even after Dasha showed up present-day.

Felix, we hardly knew ye.

I don't remember having been introduced to the aging gymnastics teacher until this episode so wonder how I would have known about her when i saw the flashback at the start of the show.

Hate to say, but S3 has been kind of a drag for me so far.

CTV prefaced last night's show with a strange disclaimer that "In light of recent events, several scenes may be inappropriate for some viewers." I can't say that I have much of a clue to what this referencing--the mention of Emile Brontë never leaving her house? The lack of social distancing on the bus?

I was going to mention that same thing--that disclaimer was very cryptic. All I could think was that any kind of violence right now is considered bad form...I keep watching for scenes like on the bus last night. I lost the plot somewhere towards the end of S1; it's just eye candy by now.

the baby in the bin obviously

I think the UK Is a week behind the rest of teh world, possibly including Ireland.
THink BBC1 broadcast episode 2 this week and I have a copy of episode 3 that i have yet to watch.
Just thought I'd say that in case anybody was feeling like talk of episodes was out of step with where they had got to

(xpost) That was great, especially the way you could hear her crying in the background as they kept talking. Weirdly enough, when I was out walking yesterday, I passed a young girl sitting in a garbage pail talking to her mother...Killing Eve fans, or some new experimental quarantine.

Didn't expect that...The Tiny Tim scene was entertainingly nuts.

I second both of those.

Feel like S3 season only really got going with this episode. Too bad we're already halfway through the season.

The big Elton scene was a series highlight; that Russian song near the end was pretty great too. Odd that Oksana's background was the basis for a whole episode--it's not like you've been waiting around to find out about that; don't remember it even being alluded to until the last couple of episodes--so I'm guessing they're just casting about for ways to stretch this out.

it's been hinted about all season!

this was a great episode, probably my favorite episode of this show ever. Partly improved by not being about Kenny's death and his mom all of which I frankly find boring.

I thought the first hints were E3 or E4--I must have missed anything earlier. I'm a little bored by the mom too.

i really liked this episode.

was the music as obnoxiously loud in s1 as it was in s2 and now 3? been while since i saw it but p sure it wasn't. hideous.

Best episode of the season, for sure.

Absolutely true: I was listening to Moses Znaimer's boomer station in the car last week, and, as a tease for "Crocodile Rock," some guy who was doing a 1972 chart countdown said that after the break he'd be playing the rare dance-craze song that didn't have an actual dance attached to it. (I was able to guess what was coming up.)

I think that was taken care of last night.

Guess I'll drop off for spoilers, but we're finishing up S2 and it's surprisingly enjoyable. It's ridiculous, sure, but I like that it plays to its strengths and keeps the focus squarely on Eve/Villanelle, without following too many side characters/plots very closely.

I honestly felt like I might be done with this show last week, not because of anything specific to last week's episode, but just because I found myself not caring much anymore. This week's episode brought me back (probably the second best episode of the season after the one where Oksana goes home), but overall it is not terribly obvious that the writers had a solid plan for how this season was going to develop.

Almost posted the same thing last night--haven't cared about the last two episodes--but wasn't engaged enough to do even that. I just want it to finish up and call it a day. They seem unsure whether they want to give Oksana a conscience or not. They've completely lost Eve's character.

still enjoying it but the show does seem rudderless and weird? is this the final season?

other than villanelle there has always been a huge distance in this show...they characters are very hard to know or understand and therefore difficult to care about. I can no longer tell who works for who or what, plot-wise, particularly where her old boss and constantine are concerned.

It has been renewed up through Season 4.

Constantine, who provided this thread's title, was my favourite character early on. Same thing, I have no idea where he fits into the story anymore. He's here, he's there, he pops in to make a joke or two, then he disappears for a while. Anything can be salvaged with a new character or two (thought they had one early in S3 with Oksana's new protege) and some good writing, but a fourth season seems daunting.

I think the 12 being so faceless for so long has been a detriment to the show.

still enjoying it but the show does seem rudderless and weird?

they change the rudder every season so

meanwhile the Phoebe Waller-Bridge exec-produced thriller-comedy series that actually has Phoebe Waller-Bridge involved wrapped its first season last night, and was both fun and left off at a point where the second season's story can either start up the next week, or in a year or two, depending on how long pandemic production pauses last.

Run, I assume? I should probably try a second ep.

Yeah, it's enjoyably unpretentious. And short!