These Drinks Is Vicious: The Killing Eve Thread

Alf Garnett was a working class icon apparently. I think it was said that he became far more popular and was taken more seriously or at least sympathised with much more than intended. People taking his political stance as something to copy etc. So not sure to what extent he was rewritten in transatlantic translation.
I have read that one has to make even the worst character sympathetic to some extent or one will just not care what happens to them. Not sure how much control one has over audience interpretation.
Archie Bunker just being the same character in US remake of the show etc.

So reception must have been different , though I thought Bunker had similar unintended support for what was intended asa satirical character. Buut why you would need to sweeten him for public consumption I don't know,.
I do remember an American I was talking to in the late 80s bewailing the addition of unconvincing happy endings as a Hollywood trope around then which is presumably years later. Can't have the audience feeling bad after all.

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