Merci Ariel pour ces mots qui font du bien, ou du moins, qui aident à avoir moins mal.
Killing Eve has been my favourite show since it came out. This finale has left me in shock, pain, anger and loss.
I cannot and will probably never understand how a group of professional writers could ever believe that this is the right ending for this show, for Villanelle and Eve's relationship, and for Villanelle's character. They deserved better, we deserved better.
I went into this season expecting to get my heart broken, but in a good and beautiful way. A good and truthful ending seemed so obvious to me (Eve and Villanelle dying together), that it never occurred to me, or I never feared for an alternative where one of them would die and the other survive. The correct ending was right there. It was so easy. Yet the writers ignored it, over-thought it, ruined it.
I feel betrayed like I have never before, because of how unique this show has been, because of how special its characters have been and because of the unparalleled chemistry between Sandra and Jodie.
My love for Killing Eve has taken a blow I never saw coming. I fear that my feelings for this show have forever been tainted, and that the comfort I have felt watching it will never be felt again.
I find consolation in the knowledge that I am not alone in my pain and sorrow.
Thank you for this. The very first thing I did after finishing the episode was opening your newsletter (and making myself some coffee as it was an ungodly hour in Brazil). It helped a lot - my thoughts and feelings were a mess and I feel like you translated them for me. I am angry. That's it. Angry. The show came out the same year I realised I was bisexual. Eve's confusion/denial about her feelings and her desire spoke so much to me. It was a breath of fresh air to see queer women so beautifully and truthfully represented and I found myself hyper fixated in the show in a way I haven't been hyper fixated in media since my teens. It's not even the tragic ending that gets to me (Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu is one of my favourite movies). It's the lazy writing, the lack of closure for characters that barely got time to explore their character development together. It's the old-fashioned storytelling (not just the bury your gays trope, but the they-sinned-so-much-there's-no-other-way-of-saving-them-but-death trope too). The multiple plot holes in the last two minutes were just the cherry on the top. Putain. Fuck this. I'm angry.
Amazingly written although... I cant help to feel an utter betrayal, rage, dissapointment, feeling insulted...which I shouldnt but I am. The ending feels like giving a fake hope and its criminal and doesnt make sense to end it like that.WTF
Beautifully written. I couldn’t agree more. Why shouldn’t a love as epic as theirs be allowed to exist? Or why weren’t we at least allowed to see Eve grieve? I would have been more accepting of Villanelle’s death if V and E had spent the season together, but they get such a small glimpse of happiness it’s quite frankly insulting.
Thank you so much for this, it is positively brilliant. It's been something like seven weeks out, and this is by far the best, most incisive, and empathetic piece I've read yet on what this all means. It deserves a far wider audience.
Thank you for writing this. You so eloquently describe my own thoughts and feelings. When I first finished the episode, I sat there in shock for quite awhile. The more time that passes, the angrier I get. When you wrote this, you probably had not seen the comments by the show runner, displaying her utter lack of regard for Eve and Villanelle's love for each other, not to mention her ignorance of their character arcs through the four series. They are a worse betrayal than the actual ending of the show. It comes across as trying to shove a square peg into a round hole and telling us not to believe our eyes. The peg was round all along.
But all of that aside, I will never be able to comprehend the decision to sideline the two most dynamic, talented, actresses in television today during the climactic scene, "operatic" or not. If Villanelle HAD to die (and I'm not convinced of this), at least let her do it in way that Jodie Comer could give Eve, if not the viewers, a sense of closure. A love speech, tell Eve to go live her life, tell her all the things the writers tried to pigeonhole in during interviews AFTER the episode aired. Anything, really. Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh would have made it the most tragic, moving, memorable, and yes, fulfilling scene, if only the writers had the courage to write it. And there's the real tragedy.
The show's creators, writers, producers, and even some cast kept saying they couldn't imagine Eve and Villanelle living in domestic bliss. That sounds like a you problem, and those 25-odd minutes of the episode prove that. Just because you can't imagine it, does not mean a world in which they can live happily ever after does not exist.
Merci Ariel pour ces mots qui font du bien, ou du moins, qui aident à avoir moins mal.
Killing Eve has been my favourite show since it came out. This finale has left me in shock, pain, anger and loss.
I cannot and will probably never understand how a group of professional writers could ever believe that this is the right ending for this show, for Villanelle and Eve's relationship, and for Villanelle's character. They deserved better, we deserved better.
I went into this season expecting to get my heart broken, but in a good and beautiful way. A good and truthful ending seemed so obvious to me (Eve and Villanelle dying together), that it never occurred to me, or I never feared for an alternative where one of them would die and the other survive. The correct ending was right there. It was so easy. Yet the writers ignored it, over-thought it, ruined it.
I feel betrayed like I have never before, because of how unique this show has been, because of how special its characters have been and because of the unparalleled chemistry between Sandra and Jodie.
My love for Killing Eve has taken a blow I never saw coming. I fear that my feelings for this show have forever been tainted, and that the comfort I have felt watching it will never be felt again.
I find consolation in the knowledge that I am not alone in my pain and sorrow.
Thank you for this. The very first thing I did after finishing the episode was opening your newsletter (and making myself some coffee as it was an ungodly hour in Brazil). It helped a lot - my thoughts and feelings were a mess and I feel like you translated them for me. I am angry. That's it. Angry. The show came out the same year I realised I was bisexual. Eve's confusion/denial about her feelings and her desire spoke so much to me. It was a breath of fresh air to see queer women so beautifully and truthfully represented and I found myself hyper fixated in the show in a way I haven't been hyper fixated in media since my teens. It's not even the tragic ending that gets to me (Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu is one of my favourite movies). It's the lazy writing, the lack of closure for characters that barely got time to explore their character development together. It's the old-fashioned storytelling (not just the bury your gays trope, but the they-sinned-so-much-there's-no-other-way-of-saving-them-but-death trope too). The multiple plot holes in the last two minutes were just the cherry on the top. Putain. Fuck this. I'm angry.
Cant read cause of the tears in my eyes. Thank you for such an expressive and honest piece.
Amazingly written although... I cant help to feel an utter betrayal, rage, dissapointment, feeling insulted...which I shouldnt but I am. The ending feels like giving a fake hope and its criminal and doesnt make sense to end it like that.WTF
Beautifully written. I couldn’t agree more. Why shouldn’t a love as epic as theirs be allowed to exist? Or why weren’t we at least allowed to see Eve grieve? I would have been more accepting of Villanelle’s death if V and E had spent the season together, but they get such a small glimpse of happiness it’s quite frankly insulting.
Thank you so much for this, it is positively brilliant. It's been something like seven weeks out, and this is by far the best, most incisive, and empathetic piece I've read yet on what this all means. It deserves a far wider audience.
Thank you for writing this. You so eloquently describe my own thoughts and feelings. When I first finished the episode, I sat there in shock for quite awhile. The more time that passes, the angrier I get. When you wrote this, you probably had not seen the comments by the show runner, displaying her utter lack of regard for Eve and Villanelle's love for each other, not to mention her ignorance of their character arcs through the four series. They are a worse betrayal than the actual ending of the show. It comes across as trying to shove a square peg into a round hole and telling us not to believe our eyes. The peg was round all along.
But all of that aside, I will never be able to comprehend the decision to sideline the two most dynamic, talented, actresses in television today during the climactic scene, "operatic" or not. If Villanelle HAD to die (and I'm not convinced of this), at least let her do it in way that Jodie Comer could give Eve, if not the viewers, a sense of closure. A love speech, tell Eve to go live her life, tell her all the things the writers tried to pigeonhole in during interviews AFTER the episode aired. Anything, really. Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh would have made it the most tragic, moving, memorable, and yes, fulfilling scene, if only the writers had the courage to write it. And there's the real tragedy.
The show's creators, writers, producers, and even some cast kept saying they couldn't imagine Eve and Villanelle living in domestic bliss. That sounds like a you problem, and those 25-odd minutes of the episode prove that. Just because you can't imagine it, does not mean a world in which they can live happily ever after does not exist.