Great show, I love it. But for me the end was frustating.
Jeya - 2 years ago
This is a true slow burn episode and series. I Love the finale! Kudos to the team for true ingenuity. The clever portrayal of queerness sans stereotype is something I appreciate here and will miss too. They absolutely Killed the story in the best way possible! It's difficult to believe this a satisfying ending to a story like this, but it IS!!
A marriage story well executed, but also one that turns western canon on its head, what a riot!
So, contrary to everyone dissing Laura Neal, I think she's done a fabulous job of tying all the themes together and changing the narrative.
I think the series is a master class in visual narrative and is no mere love story, but also is the best kind of love story, clever and provocative, challenging the patient viewer with clues from the beginning to the end. It's been an absolute treat! This one's for the ages and I'm sure the writers and the team will have the last laugh.
Thank you Team Killing Eve for one of the best shows ever! That was delicious!
Jenni - 2 years ago
I was an admirer from season 1 which I found to be near to groundbreaking drama and thoroughly enjoyed it. Quirky, funny, horrifying, captivating story, quality production values and superb actors. I had no need nor wish to buy into labelling e.g. gay content, feminism, power, corrupt establishment et al The series included or acknowledged all of this cleverly, thoughtfully and entertainingly. Series 2 was good with story line keeping interest. I was disappointed from thereon as it seemed to lose it's way until declining in series 4 into absurd surreal nonsense and losing any quality of connection and approach to the areas introduced so excellently in series 1. Having just read the explanations of series 4 overall and particularly the ending I am sorry to say that to me most of it sounded like an excuse for a failure to meet the standards of the first and possibly second series. I honestly wasn't aware the writers had changed, I rarely read background articles of tv programmes, but this might explain why the final series just didn't come anything neqr to reasonable expectations.
Al - 2 years ago
I loved the show and the characters. The ending was as it should be...a heartbreaker. I got a bit of a tear watching Villanelle drift away from Eve. I will miss this show.
LiNK - 2 years ago
Don’t think I have ever heard of a more tone deaf or out of touch showrunner/writer with what the show was about! To be so clueless should not be allowed. Why did noone stop her?!
JM - 2 years ago
Now we have a template for taking a supremely talented cast and producing a bad season of TV. Did Laura Neal even watch the prior seasons? Once they saw how bad the early season 4 scripts were, was it too late to rewrite before feeling? Of course the had just 2 years.
Shirley - 2 years ago
Really hated to see vilanelle die but glad they finally got to express their feelings for each other! REALLY will miss the characters all of them
C M - 2 years ago
Honestly, this show has been on a steady decline into abysmal lazy writing for the last 2 seasons and at the end of the day, this episode was heartbreakingly bad but no surprise.
For a long time it's felt like the writers wanted it to be more than a quirky obsessive romantic spy show (despite the fact that this is EXACTLY what drew viewers and made the show successful in the first place) and they ultimately got too big for their writing capabilities. The new writers consistently struggled to even have a cohesive storyline, leaving awkward gaps and some key plots were never worked through (e.g. what happened on the bridge and who killed Kenny? Why was Eve so angry at the start of season 4? What was the aim of the 12 other than destabilizing governments through assasinations? How had Carolyn never found members of the 12 previously? What was Carolyn's end game?). Instead of answers we were continually given purposeless 2-dimensional characters (Hugo and Yousef anyone?), some occasionally snappy dialogue, and even more questions (what was the point of any of it?).
I'm also disappointed because the writers used the queer fan base and the longing we had for V and E to be together, and just messed with us. They gave us tiny glimmers of what the show could've been and then snatched it away each time. They strung us along to keep ratings up, gave us a rushed ending and shoved the bury your gays trope down our collective throats. In truth, although we all wanted it we didn't even necessarily need V and E to end up together - or even live! We just wanted and deserved a decent storyline that made sense! All the fans did, gay, straight, whatever your label. There were literally hundreds of possibilities for this final season, and we were given a flaming pile of excrement in its place.
Sorry, I mean frustrating
Great show, I love it. But for me the end was frustating.
This is a true slow burn episode and series. I Love the finale! Kudos to the team for true ingenuity. The clever portrayal of queerness sans stereotype is something I appreciate here and will miss too. They absolutely Killed the story in the best way possible! It's difficult to believe this a satisfying ending to a story like this, but it IS!!
A marriage story well executed, but also one that turns western canon on its head, what a riot!
So, contrary to everyone dissing Laura Neal, I think she's done a fabulous job of tying all the themes together and changing the narrative.
I think the series is a master class in visual narrative and is no mere love story, but also is the best kind of love story, clever and provocative, challenging the patient viewer with clues from the beginning to the end. It's been an absolute treat! This one's for the ages and I'm sure the writers and the team will have the last laugh.
Thank you Team Killing Eve for one of the best shows ever! That was delicious!
I was an admirer from season 1 which I found to be near to groundbreaking drama and thoroughly enjoyed it. Quirky, funny, horrifying, captivating story, quality production values and superb actors. I had no need nor wish to buy into labelling e.g. gay content, feminism, power, corrupt establishment et al The series included or acknowledged all of this cleverly, thoughtfully and entertainingly. Series 2 was good with story line keeping interest. I was disappointed from thereon as it seemed to lose it's way until declining in series 4 into absurd surreal nonsense and losing any quality of connection and approach to the areas introduced so excellently in series 1. Having just read the explanations of series 4 overall and particularly the ending I am sorry to say that to me most of it sounded like an excuse for a failure to meet the standards of the first and possibly second series. I honestly wasn't aware the writers had changed, I rarely read background articles of tv programmes, but this might explain why the final series just didn't come anything neqr to reasonable expectations.
I loved the show and the characters. The ending was as it should be...a heartbreaker. I got a bit of a tear watching Villanelle drift away from Eve. I will miss this show.
Don’t think I have ever heard of a more tone deaf or out of touch showrunner/writer with what the show was about! To be so clueless should not be allowed. Why did noone stop her?!
Now we have a template for taking a supremely talented cast and producing a bad season of TV. Did Laura Neal even watch the prior seasons? Once they saw how bad the early season 4 scripts were, was it too late to rewrite before feeling? Of course the had just 2 years.
Really hated to see vilanelle die but glad they finally got to express their feelings for each other! REALLY will miss the characters all of them
Honestly, this show has been on a steady decline into abysmal lazy writing for the last 2 seasons and at the end of the day, this episode was heartbreakingly bad but no surprise.
For a long time it's felt like the writers wanted it to be more than a quirky obsessive romantic spy show (despite the fact that this is EXACTLY what drew viewers and made the show successful in the first place) and they ultimately got too big for their writing capabilities. The new writers consistently struggled to even have a cohesive storyline, leaving awkward gaps and some key plots were never worked through (e.g. what happened on the bridge and who killed Kenny? Why was Eve so angry at the start of season 4? What was the aim of the 12 other than destabilizing governments through assasinations? How had Carolyn never found members of the 12 previously? What was Carolyn's end game?). Instead of answers we were continually given purposeless 2-dimensional characters (Hugo and Yousef anyone?), some occasionally snappy dialogue, and even more questions (what was the point of any of it?).
I'm also disappointed because the writers used the queer fan base and the longing we had for V and E to be together, and just messed with us. They gave us tiny glimmers of what the show could've been and then snatched it away each time. They strung us along to keep ratings up, gave us a rushed ending and shoved the bury your gays trope down our collective throats. In truth, although we all wanted it we didn't even necessarily need V and E to end up together - or even live! We just wanted and deserved a decent storyline that made sense! All the fans did, gay, straight, whatever your label. There were literally hundreds of possibilities for this final season, and we were given a flaming pile of excrement in its place.