Killing Eve
Mar. 16th, 2021 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rogueslayer452It appears that Killing Eve will end after its fourth season.
I'll be honest, I never quite got that into Killing Eve, and for a while I never quite understood why. It felt like one of those shows that, while it had a solid start with season one it quickly lost its momentum after that and I kind of lost interest. Which happens with some shows, they will start off good but then you realize it's not what you were wanting from it. I just couldn't quite pinpoint the specific reason for my disinterest (aside from internally comparing it to Hannibal, which I know is unfair because they're two completely different shows). Of course, after learning about what happened with its third season and the complaints many fans had with it, including the sidelining of Sandra Oh who, y'know, plays the titular character, it all clicked into place. Killing Eve is very disproportioned. Where they should have focused on their two main leads equally, both in writing and with their characters' obsessions with each other, they ended up focusing entirely on Villanelle while keeping Eve in the background and not exploring her arc more. It's very lopsided, and it makes for uneven storytelling and honestly, wasted potential. The thing is, Killing Eve isn't a bad show, it's just that it could have been better in the way it was structured after the first season. The seeds were planted, it was there, but somehow they just kept missing that mark to land properly.
I do hope that they take the criticism of the third season seriously to make the final season better and satisfactory for the fans. It had a solid and strong beginning, let it end on a similar note.
I'll be honest, I never quite got that into Killing Eve, and for a while I never quite understood why. It felt like one of those shows that, while it had a solid start with season one it quickly lost its momentum after that and I kind of lost interest. Which happens with some shows, they will start off good but then you realize it's not what you were wanting from it. I just couldn't quite pinpoint the specific reason for my disinterest (aside from internally comparing it to Hannibal, which I know is unfair because they're two completely different shows). Of course, after learning about what happened with its third season and the complaints many fans had with it, including the sidelining of Sandra Oh who, y'know, plays the titular character, it all clicked into place. Killing Eve is very disproportioned. Where they should have focused on their two main leads equally, both in writing and with their characters' obsessions with each other, they ended up focusing entirely on Villanelle while keeping Eve in the background and not exploring her arc more. It's very lopsided, and it makes for uneven storytelling and honestly, wasted potential. The thing is, Killing Eve isn't a bad show, it's just that it could have been better in the way it was structured after the first season. The seeds were planted, it was there, but somehow they just kept missing that mark to land properly.
I do hope that they take the criticism of the third season seriously to make the final season better and satisfactory for the fans. It had a solid and strong beginning, let it end on a similar note.
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Date: 2021-03-19 02:30 am (UTC)Also, I'm still not convinced the writers even know how the various government agencies connect to Villanelle's employers. Are they really all the same people? Or are they two groups fighting each other?
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Date: 2021-03-19 07:48 pm (UTC)Yeah, that's one of the complaints I heard from various fans, as well. Many felt like the show ran out of ideas or had no clue on where the direction they wanted to go in, and basically making Villanelle less unhinged is not helping matters, either.
The show isn't dark like Hannibal, but they still should have taken more risks than they did, and now it feels too late.