Like Carolyn, maybe Season 4 showrunner Laura Neal (who wrote the series finale) wanted to surprise people by not surprising people. If I were to give the show the benefit of the doubt, I’d say that it made such a cliché choice on purpose. When the show’s signature block lettering slams “THE END” onto the screen, it’s so jarring that it feels like a slap in the face. But no: “Killing Eve” really ends with Villanelle drifting away into the Thames, Jack in “Titanic” style, as Eve screams into the night. The whole thing is so abrupt, so hackneyed, so amazingly unoriginal that for one hopeful minute, I was sure it had to be a trick. After the series finale finally lets Villanelle and Eve consummate their long simmering sexual tension and bring down The Twelve, it almost immediately pivots to someone murdering Villanelle in cold blood as Eve stares on in horror. In its last few minutes, though, the show goes in such a completely typical direction that it’s almost more jarring for it. Over four seasons, it spent much of its time and energy subverting spy stories and making genuinely shocking choices that left viewers reeling. “But now I’m going to behave exactly as you’d expect me to - and do something different.”Īs I watched the baffling final sequence of “Killing Eve,” I thought back to this exchange and wondered if this particular flavor of defiance was the show’s goal all along. “I was going to do that, yes,” Carolyn allows.
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