I watched the 4th and final season with a thirst to see what happened to my favorite characters, and it was the collapse of my expectations.
I was happy with the idea of Laura Neal being asked to write the end of this great series, and my enthusiasm accompanied each episode. Truth be told, a happy ending would be what I most wanted, despite realizing that Villanelle's death might be more fitting, seeing as, in previous seasons, she attacked and killed everyone in Eve's circle. It might be strange that they lived the romance so desired by a wide community without having repercussions for her actions. I was thrilled when I saw them kiss, a boon for us, and when they apparently consummated love, sex that throughout the series they share with other characters, finally letting all the sexual tension that unites them have representation in the series. It was the euphoria before the shock.
I didn't like the episodes and very little of this season. The connection with the previous season was left behind-remembering that they looked at each other on the bridge and that ending was apotheotic and fantastic. All that was missing was what half the world imagined-heading towards each other.
The first episodes of season 4, with Villanelle repentant and religious, didn't make sense to me, even if the idea was to give her a penance to purge her actions. It didn't make me laugh; it felt like madness in a parallel world and that she had taken something like a hallucinogenic substance as well, whoever wrote this passage. The introduction of a new assassin, which would have predicted a continuity of Villanelle, was stripped without a very noticeable logic, but it served to assassinate her mentor and Villanelle's mentor, Constantin. In the last episode, she doesn't accept killing Villanelle because she has the same admiration for her that we do.
Hèléne becomes more prominent, as does Eve. We see Villanelle leave Eve's space and life and what was hoped for, what was most longed for, falls to the ground. They weren't going to have the much-desired life together during this season. The fate of Hèléne and Eve, who almost get involved, goes beyond the relationship between them. The episode in Cuba between Villanelle and Carolyn in which she lets Carolyn live is very uninteresting. Carolyn's "flashback" finally puts us at the heart of the mystery surrounding the "Twelve"-which was good. There are still murders, it is true, to remind us that Villanelle is a murderer, but there is no pride in carrying out these deaths, even if some touch on domestic violence. Villanelle even begins to dress casually, which she has rarely done in previous seasons. Life on the island with the other assassin didn't convince me either. It makes no sense to say that Carolyn has promoted her killing because of Kenny. She is in Barcelona when his death happens. This excuse doesn't work, and Carolyn, who also has a lot of blood on her hands, is still alive and free, even after ordering the worst murder of the entire series!?
As I wrote above, I didn't like this season. It seems that there is a curse about the last seasons of the great series. Maybe next time, I should expect the worst and be "fine" surprised by the plot. As I wrote in the previous message about Killing Eve, I was ecstatic at the idea of Laura Neal ending the series. She wrote "Sex Education," an extraordinary series where everything is discussed freely and intelligently, so I wasn't expecting this bad ending, nor the lack of content of the entire season.
The season 3 finale should have been the main event for the series finale. Forgiveness should be a part of the relationship that the two can develop. The other characters would be at the heart of the evolution of this relationship, and even if they didn't end up with each other, they would continue to live to give us the possibility to dream or scream with that choice. Killing all the most important characters was crazy for me, of course.
Villanelle's death did not please me. The blood-drawing angel wings in the river!? If she deserved these wings, why did she die?
I leave here the words of Laura Neal to explain her choice...
"We couldn't imagine Eve and Villanelle in domestic life for a long time. They're destined for something more explosive. [...] What felt right was to foster the rebirth of Eve, who now has a chance to build a new life with everything Villanelle gave her. And it felt right for Villanelle too. She's forged in death and destruction; part of her loves that. This is her place, where she belongs. In my mind, it's a happy ending for Villanelle in a way, because she got what she wanted—proof that she's changed and shown it to Eve."
My first message about Killing Eve
https://audrey-movie.blogspot.com/2020/09/killing-eve-series-english.html
Audrey Love (ASC2022)
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