It is always difficult to say goodbye to the series and, if we have also enjoyed them, even more. Two years after seeing Eve and Villanelle go in different directionswe return to their lives with season 4, and final, of ‘Killing Eve’, the female drama that we can see on HBO Max.
So with Laura Neal (‘Sex Education’) at the helm of these new episodes, following the tradition of having a different head writer each season, we meet up little by little with the protagonists of the series while we get an idea of what has happened in between.
Eve (Sandra Oh) seems to have found new will to live while he does not give up his hunt against the Twelve; Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) has been demoted and we meet her in Mallorca; Villanelle (Jodie Comer), for her part, prepare to be baptized and start a new life with Jesus by his side.
No magic, but we enjoy the tricks
There is a certain line of thought among fans of the series – which was strengthened especially during season 3 -, in which it is recognized that the story, or its plot coherence, is the least important. What as long as we have doses of love/hate, of outlandish clothesgentlemen(it)as shouting and gesticulating, certain black humor and others, everything is going well.
In this way, Laura Neal more than fulfills its mission in which the protagonists mount the illusion that they are going to end up against The Twelve, the ultra-powerful organization that has marked their lives. We viewers no longer care so much about that but about everything else. We enjoy these women and their comings and goings.
Recognizable patterns from ‘Killing Eve’ weave the new season together, picking up the traditions of its predecessors and filling these first two episodes of visual gags, accurate music, great outfits and, by the way, introduces Jesusnellea product of the Christian fantasy of Jodie Comer’s character.
The problem (if anything) comes when deep down, regardless of finding the trio – a quartet if we take into account Kim Bodnia – the protagonist in “new lives”, we know that we are facing the same game and the players, no matter how much they seem to have changed, they are the same. Sentenced to the same plays. And again.
getting in the game
As if trying to reproduce the same magic that intoxicated us in the first season and kept us faithful in its second. The spectators enter the gameaware that, for example, it is not a question of “if Villanelle will kill again” but how much cruelty there will be when she does.
In short, ‘Killing Eve’ it’s still a top hobby. The first episodes of this season 4 are as light as they are self-indulgent and the fan of the series will continue to enjoy the beauty of the misadventures of its protagonists. The pity is that it stays there.