Eve and Villanelle nearly run away together to start a new life, but at the last moment, Eve rejects Villanelle and Villanelle shoots Eve, possibly killing her.
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"You love me," Villanelle insists, but Eve says Villanelle doesn't understand what that is.
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But the question is this: Is Villanelle really helping Eve, or is Eve unknowingly helping Villanelle?
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Villanelle Villanelle has carried out her first murder under her new handler, and she hated it.
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Instead, he suggests, Eve should make Villanelle hate her...because we've all seen what happens to people Villanelle loves.
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Villanelle tries to pull the wool over Eve's eyes, and it doesn't work, and that just makes Villanelle want more.
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Villanelle The only clue we get about where Villanelle has escaped to is in the form of a single bloody handprint.
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Villanelle begins freaking out, saying she didn't think Eve would actually take the pills, and Eve runs to the sink as Villanelle stars laughing.
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Like us, Eve cannot shake her unbidden love for what Villanelle represents — in Eve's case, even as Villanelle kills and threatens her loved ones.
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When, in the finale of the first season, Eve stabs Villanelle in the stomach, Villanelle chooses to view it as an act of love.
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As Carolyn emphasizes the importance of never breaking character, Villanelle realizes that she is the real boss — something that makes her immediately attractive to Villanelle.
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Villanelle comes home, and the two have a standoff, mirroring an earlier scene where Villanelle breaks into Eve's home to "have dinner" with her at knifepoint.
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The trailers for the second season airing tonight haven't told us much; Eve and Villanelle are still obsessed with one another, and Villanelle is still a killer.
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Meanwhile, Villanelle is on the outs with The Twelve after shooting Konstantin, and, according to a press release, Villanelle is in yet another assassin's crosshairs in season 2.
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Regardless, Villanelle would do well to heed the warning, because his behavior goes from creepy to downright psychotic when he realizes Villanelle is trying to make a phone call.
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Eve & Villanelle Once home, our two protagonists finally reunite.
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The big exception to this new reset is the fraught connection between Eve and Villanelle, and the corner it turned in the last seconds of the season finale, when Eve stabbed Villanelle.
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Villanelle arrives in Rome, but her packing was for nothing.
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What happens to Villanelle when she's on a tight leash?
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Villanelle is left alone in brief chunks at a time.
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Best Villanelle disguise: A poor, helpless woman in a supermarket.
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Villanelle is very turned on by the whole bloody scene.
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It brings the opportunity for Villanelle to meet her match.
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Worst Eve lie: That her job isn't all about Villanelle.
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As Eve gets more and more angry, Villanelle becomes distraught.
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Her counterpart, Villanelle (not yet cast), is a psychopathic assassin.
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Villanelle leaves apples at her crimes, for Eve to notice.
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There hasn't been another character on TV quite like Villanelle.
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An assassin by trade, Villanelle always has the upper hand.
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Villanelle calls Eve her "girlfriend" and in one episode of the second season Eve bones her coworker while listening to Villanelle (who was wearing a wire so they could communicate) masturbate in her earpiece.
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Season 2 picks up seconds after Season 1's finale, just after Eve and Villanelle have finally had their quiet moment together — a moment that ended when Eve stabbed Villanelle right in the gut.
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Eve learns from Jess's (Nina Sosanya) trip to Amsterdam that Villanelle has gone freelance, and thinks putting Villanelle and the Ghost in the same room will help them get to the bottom of what's happening.
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And what was Carolyn discussing with Villanelle during their prison meeting?
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For good reason, though, because Villanelle has been thinking about her.
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By the time MI6 kicks it down, however, Villanelle has escaped.
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Villanelle drops her "Billy" persona, and Aaron Peel is hardly surprised.
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Although she saved Villanelle, Eve is dazed from what she did.
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Later, Villanelle joyfully plans to dress Pamela in Eve's stolen clothing.
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Comer's work as Villanelle was a slow burn the first season.
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Killing Eve's hilariously brutal assassin, Villanelle, would have flown their wigs.
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Villanelle herself seems to harbor no ill will over the stabbing.
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"Eve is alive," Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) drops, prompting Villanelle to scream.
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Luckily, she can throw herself head first into the dinner between Villanelle, Amber, and Aaron, where not only is Villanelle bugged, but she has an earpiece through which Eve can help get her out of binds.
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The second season—with a new showrunner, Emerald Fennell—begins just after the first season's finale, which featured Eve and Villanelle going to bed and confessing their love, and then Eve stabbing Villanelle in the gut.
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Villanelle is wearing a belt over her dress, and Aaron doesn't approve.
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If Eve was getting jealous, Villanelle certainly made it up to her.
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Over with Villanelle, she's facing a test of her loyalties as well.
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" Pinning Villanelle Down "We talked a lot about the hairpin — a lot.
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Villanelle is a world-class international hit-woman with definite sociopathic tendencies.
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Her terrifying counterpart, Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer, perhaps even more so.
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Brutal assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is obsessed with crafting the perfect murder.
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That inspired me to play in Villanelle because Phoebe is totally fearless.
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And if Story is becoming popular, is Sonnet next — or, perhaps, Villanelle?
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And then, as she struts out of the cafe, Villanelle smacks the
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She pivots formally, too, between hints of the sestina and the villanelle.
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Jodie Comer gives Villanelle a liveliness that almost feels like a sport.
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"I just had a really bad breakup," Villanelle says in the trailer.
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As Season 2 begins, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is still bleeding from it.
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"I think we see a completely different side to Villanelle," she added.
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Villanelle is a restless, calculating killer with a wicked sense of humor.
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In Killing Eve, the BBC's hit assassin-spy drama, Eve (Sandra Oh) is an MI5 officer who becomes obsessed with mysterious assassin Villanelle; Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a highly skilled and psychopathic killer, becomes obsessed with Eve in return.
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He locks Villanelle in the car with the coveted antibiotics and drives away.
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This is clearly a message from Villanelle, and the hunt is back on.
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Hugo begs Eve to stay with him, but she leaves to save Villanelle.
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Finally, this episode of Killing Eve gives us the Villanelle we've been missing.
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Eve sees right through that — but is it too discreet to be Villanelle?
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However, Villanelle won't leave Eve stranded, and turns down his offer of escape.
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Eve and Villanelle don't share a mutual ex, but they exhibit similar behavior.
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Villanelle is an excellent international hitwoman partly because she's proficient in several languages.
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If there's one thing we know about Villanelle, it's that she'll be back.
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Villanelle steals Eve's suitcase and re-packs it with designer clothes and a
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After an excruciatingly long wait, Villanelle and Eve Polastri are returning to Hulu.
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It is also worth mentioning: Jodie Comer's portrayal of Villanelle is absolutely revelatory.
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Villanelle Armed with superhero pajamas, Crocs, and all the antibiotics she could need, Villanelle exits the trunk of the strangers she hitched a ride back to England with, only arousing suspicion when one of the sleeping children spots her exit.
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There's kind of a dark loveliness about Villanelle and Eve's mutual attraction; Villanelle, a killer, is obsessed with Eve for a reason many of us can relate to: Oh's highly obsession-worthy hair, which is only now receiving proper recognition.
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In the season finale, Eve finally has the chance to catch Villanelle in her Paris apartment, which is spare in furniture but overflowing with perfumes, couture clothes, weaponry, and bottles of champagne — all symbolic of Villanelle, who is pure id.
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But, she lies and says Villanelle was not in her apartment when she arrived.
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He took the details of his family's location and Villanelle, leaving MI6 with nothing.
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Then wonder how someone as unpredictable as Villanelle will react to this huge revelation.
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Sebastian is interested in Villanelle specifically because he hopes to take care of her.
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And, the episodes likely points toward the key to understanding what makes Villanelle tick.
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At the same time, she admits she's also there because she's obsessed with Villanelle.
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The show makes queerness even more explicit than Hannibal did: Villanelle, is openly bisexual.
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Comer plays Villanelle, a hired assassin and ostensible villain, but with a sympathetic streak.
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The two become completely obsessed with each other as the hunt for Villanelle unfolds.
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Jodie Comer took home the Emmy for her role as Villanelle in Killing Eve.
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Villanelle apparently isn't the first woman — or, person for that matter — Aaron has kept before.
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Villanelle ignores the earpiece, at one point stuffing it into her food and eating it.
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Either Eve works with Carolyn on tracking down Villanelle, or she goes into witness protection.
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Villanelle It's the start of Villanelle's new life as a freelance assassin, and she's bored.
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Knowing Villanelle, she already has a plan to change that up her very expensive sleeves.
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As they stroll in the sun, Eve panicked, Villanelle fantasizes about their new life together.
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To quote my colleague Kathryn Lindsay, Villanelle has sex "at" a partner, not with him.
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Ever the hair obsessive, Villanelle strokes Eve's face and tangles her hand in her hair.
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It is a true thrill to watch Villanelle rebel against what's expected of her — i.e.
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Villanelle serves as a kind of opposite of the humiliating casting director in Double Happiness.
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It gave us Villanelle, the flouncy dress–wearing assassin goddess the world loves to hate.
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Instead it is the overtly erotic relationship between Eve and Villanelle that drives the narrative.
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The viewer learns that Villanelle also murdered and castrated the husband of a previous lover.
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Villanelle assumed roles that varied not just in wigs, but in accent, demeanor, and backstory.
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Villanelle doesn't seem picky about her bedmates, but her romantic obsessions are exclusive to women.
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Sandra Oh stars as an investigator tracking an international assassin, Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer.
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But Villanelle, the glam assassin at the center of "Killing Eve," is nothing but reactions.
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Eve has a job and a home and is happily married, and Villanelle craves that.
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OH Eve's superpower, when she meets Villanelle head-to-head, is that she's so honest.
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"Killing Eve"'s psychopath Villanelle, played by Jodie Comer, is cold, calculated and utterly selfish.
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When Villanelle went back to prison, that was a huge moment because you see Oksana.
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We know Villanelle has probably been through some horrific stuff, but she never pities herself.
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Villanelle decides to wear Polastri's scarf around town—and this is how Pargrave spots her.
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Villanelle works for an organization called The Twelve Villanelle has never taken an interest in her bosses, but Eve uncovers that she is part of an organization called The Twelve, which might be more associated with the Russian or British government than anyone realizes yet.
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Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) gives her very strict orders to keep Villanelle, an actual psychopath, under control.
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It's not about the sex, but the fact that Eve never told him she stabbed Villanelle.
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What plans does The 12 have for Villanelle now that they finally have her under control?
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Will things escalate between Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) after their last encounter?
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With the clock ticking, Villanelle befriends the young boy in the bed next to her, Gabriel.
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They trace it to Julian's house, but when they arrive, Villanelle is gone — or, just gone.
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Their interrogation of the Ghost isn't working, and Eve's been spoiled by the excitement of Villanelle.
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Dressed as if for a funeral, Villanelle arrives at the house ready to kill her victim.
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She apologizes for making those fake complaints to the school, and reveals herself to be Villanelle.
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Here's what Eve and Villanelle got up to on season 2, episode 4 of Killing Eve.
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The fact that this would benefit Villanelle by leaving Eve single and available is...not mentioned.
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Villanelle slaps Eve to know her out of her panic, and immediately dives into a plan.
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Villanelle says she wouldn't understand the importance of family because all of her family is dead.
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Later in the episode, Villanelle steals Eve's luggage, going through and rabidly inspecting her things; l.
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Villanelle is actually copying the friendly facial expressions of a man who works at the eatery.
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Enter Villanelle, the highly eccentric — and highly unnerving — assassin from the BBC's recent thriller Killing Eve.
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Eve pulls a knife on Villanelle, who, as previously mentioned, murdered the British Intelligence agent's friend.
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Where Bond kills for queen and country, Villanelle does it mostly because she's good at it.
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Eve's personal and professional relationships become strained as she and Villanelle become obsessed with each other.
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We saw Eve really changing this season, moving closer and closer to Villanelle and her world.
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But on the topic of flavors, here's an original Hex villanelle on the subject of vanilla.
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As the series continues, she becomes as driven by her own interests and desires as Villanelle.
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As always, watching Villanelle work a mark is one of the purest pleasures this show offers — her eyes go impossibly round, and her voice oozes with delighted smarm — but in this case, when the mark turns on Villanelle, it's a reversal of power that doesn't quite land.
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She hands Eve "cyanide" pills, and Eve takes them, thinking she was calling Villanelle on her bluff.
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They can move to Alaska, she suggests, and Villanelle has money and can take care of them.
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It revolves around Villanelle, a brilliant former college student with a personality disorder (real name: Oksana Astankova).
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Earlier this season, a gun-toting Villanelle ran away from Eve when she should have killed her.
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The meaning is that Villanelle is far more fixated on her new lover's hair than anything else.
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So, we now understand how Villanelle behaves when she sees someone who reminds her of someone else.
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Just ask Oh's Eve, who runs toward a gun-toting Villanelle during an upcoming Killing Eve episode.
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More recently, we've fallen for cold-blooded Killing Eve assassin Villanelle, with her paradoxically whimsical fashion tastes.
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Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is back on the run, and working for a mysterious organization called The 29.
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Killing Eve's Villanelle gets away with hilariously blatant suspicious behavior by playing up her youth as well.
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Mid-season, Eve describes Villanelle to a sketch artist with an attendance verging on lust and adoration.
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After all, for Villanelle, murder is nothing more or less than a high-style form of playacting.
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Like Villanelle, Chigurh is most chilling in those moments when he seems to be acting almost normal.
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And I loved experimenting with how women can [expletive] each other up — like Villanelle sending Eve clothes.
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That's a calculation you make all the time that men don't make — and it's catnip for Villanelle.
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Off the Menu VILLANELLE Catherine Manning, a novice restaurateur, assembled a fine team for her first venture.
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They hire Villanelle not for killing, but instead for her keen ability to assume different characters and looks.
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The pity parties are over, the group explains, but Amber seems sympathetic, approaching Villanelle after class to sympathize.
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However, Villanelle has a quick fix for this problem: push the handler in front of an oncoming truck!
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Steamed, Villanelle heads to a local kebab shop, where she immediately becomes enamored with the kebab meat spit.
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Oh wore a fitted, white dress while Comer rocked a big, black puffy dress worthy of Villanelle. OMG!!
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Pretty confident she killed Villanelle, Eve makes a call to see if any stab victims have been reported.
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He thinks he's in for some light BDSM, but Villanelle has other plans — and they might sound familiar.
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Once the deed is done, Villanelle assumes they can go back "home" aka London, but Konstantin says no.
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Villanelle calls bullshit, but then she hears a group of people bust open her door down the hall.
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Once inside, she bursts into the breakfast room, where he and Villanelle are laughing, safe as can be.
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The two brawl in the hallway, with Raymond eventually pinning Villanelle against a wall, hands around her throat.
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Thinking Villanelle is a new doctor assigned to her husband, she asks for an update on his condition.
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In the midst of all this, Villanelle passes out, and when she wakes up, it's time to escape.
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Villanelle and Eve's actual physical encounters are fleeting, but the two are always trying to find each other.
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And Eve, who works to solve murders, is obsessed with Villanelle because of her skill with a knife.
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For a cold-blooded killer, to quote Villanelle, that hurts — likely more than it would hurt anyone else.
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In fact, Villanelle can twist herself into a ridiculously socially acceptable woman… and Jodie Comer hates that phrase.
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Actually, Villanelle loves her job, executing her marks with a flair that in other circumstances might be enviable.
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Carolyn fires Eve from her tracking job, but Eve defies Carolyn and goes to hunt down Villanelle anyway.
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Then Villanelle breaks into Eve's home and coerces her—with a knife—into sitting down for dinner together.
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Indeed, the heart of Killing Eve lies in the recurring theme that Eve and Villanelle aren't quite opposites.
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But Eve and Villanelle — and also everyone alive, sorry — are their most interesting when they're the most themselves.
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"The more happy and innocent and playful and naughty Villanelle seems," Bradbeer explained, "the more dangerous she becomes."
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Critic score: 94%The BBC America/AMC show "Killing Eve" was adapted from Luke Jennings' "Codename Villanelle" novellas.
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The episode opens with a monologue from Polastri, where she describes Villanelle to a police department sketch artist.
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Worst Eve lie: That the investigation must keep focusing on Villanelle...despite the fact that they ruled her out.
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When Eve returns to the hotel,, Hugo is gone, as is all evidence of the Villanelle-affiliated Roman mission.
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Not unlike Eve (Sandra Oh), I can't tell if I'm terrified or charmed by Killing Eve's Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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Villanelle heads upstairs, knife brandished, only to see Konstantin at the end of the hallway in his own room.
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Villanelle fibs her way through the conversation, and tells the woman that her (obviously dying) husband is recovering well.
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We soon learn that the killer is a porcelain-skinned young Russian woman who calls herself Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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But this trope lives on in Villanelle, whose sexual desire is very much linked to her need to kill.
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Sometimes it seems like Eve's obsession with murder might be a kind of kink that she shares with Villanelle.
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Villanelle liked Eve, now, after all the attempted murder, the assassin views Eve as she views everyone else: expendable.
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Once Pamela pulls out her hair tie, Villanelle is obviously seducing Pamela's hair, as opposed to the woman herself.
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But both characters admit that they like each other, and it's clear that Eve does genuinely lust after Villanelle.
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Villanelle is pouty, sarcastic, and rarely gives up the chance to play with her prey before she kills it.
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I think there is part of Villanelle that looks at Niko and Eve's relationship, and she is craving that.
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Villanelle lures Pargrave into a nightclub where the loud, chaotic atmosphere emboldens her to murder him in plain sight.
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It become sexual, prompting Eve to approach Hugo in bed for sex — with Villanelle in her ear the entire time.
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Villanelle, ever the empath, takes advantage of him and convinces him to sneak out and get her a hospital badge.
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At first Villanelle thinks this is some kind of joke Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) is playing on her, but it's genuine.
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The episode ends in Oxford, where Villanelle has donned her best schoolboy look in order to casually run into Niko.
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In a fit of anger, Villanelle picks up the phone and places a call — to Niko's school of all places.
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The episode begins with Villanelle learning what we knew all along: Aaron Peel (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) is a creepy fuck.
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Worst Eve lie: That she, even for a second, had no interest in returning to work and hunting down Villanelle.
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The British writer Luke Jennings self-published his first novella — Codename Villanelle — as an Amazon Kindle single in February 2014.
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Villanelle, put on ice as her handlers question her stability, tries to enjoy a few days as a "normal" person.
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Villanelle, on the other hand, stays silent, in the same way the macho men of pop culture have for decades.
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It's a relationship just shy of the dark deliciousness of Killing Eve's Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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Indeed, the actress—who stars as Villanelle, a talented Russian assassin—is already part of a much more interesting production.
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It is a young man who, enamoured with Villanelle after their fling, takes a fatal sniff of her Novichok perfume.
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First, Ms. Waller-Bridge fell for Eve and Villanelle; then, she, Ms. Oh and Ms. Comer fell for one another.
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Villanelle is the villain, but people are on her side a little bit — which is naughty, but I love it.
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Villanelle knows at that point just how to get to Eve, and it's too easy for her to do it.
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More importantly, the writing is often at its best when it allows Eve and Villanelle to get a little messy.
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However, in a meeting with the psychiatrist from the earlier episode, it becomes clear Villanelle isn't the one who needs help.
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Eve and Niko's chat is interrupted by a delivery, which end up being flowers from Villanelle in anticipation of Eve's funeral.
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Right now, they have a new murder to solve and the sneaking suspicion that Villanelle isn't quite out of the picture.
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Luckily, nothing shocks Villanelle, so she's able to act like it's business as usual when she joins her host for breakfast.
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As Eve becomes more focused on understanding what makes her target tick, Villanelle simply becomes obsessed with the woman hunting her.
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Villanelle and Eve: The relationship between the two Killing Eve characters may be complicated, but their chemistry is clear as day.
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Villanelle literally stops moving and turns her entire body to continue looking at the stranger, all while Sebastian blathers about Paris.
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Yet, unlike what we're used to seeing with male contract killers, Villanelle isn't a volatile mass of brute force and aggression.
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Characters like Eve are supposed to obsess over characters like Villanelle, these charismatic antiheroes we've seen plenty of on screen lately.
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We've never seen a detective show like this, nor any characters like quite like Villanelle, Eve, or their ill-fated relationship.
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So Villanelle is right, to some extent: You can hurt a psychopath's feelings, but probably different feelings and for different reasons.
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As Villanelle struts across the shop to leave, she very casually and very deliberately knocks the girl's sundae onto her shirt.
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Eve is seeking out something exciting, something that isn't the norm in life, and I think Villanelle is seeking the opposite.
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While this episode doesn't give us the reunion we, Villanelle, or Eve (Sandra Oh) was hoping for, it plants some compelling seeds.
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Villanelle, master of lies, concocts a story about an abusive husband, and says that calling the police would put her in danger.
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Both women are consumed with each other, that's clear—and for Villanelle, an openly queer character, the attraction borders on the psychosexual.
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She's drawn to this mysterious other room, but, as we know, Villanelle and Konstantin escape just as MI6 kicks down the door.
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"What a weird looking gentleman," Villanelle remarks at his profile, sending Eve, who's listening in from her hotel room, into a panic.
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To save himself, Peel offers Villanelle the chance to work for him instead, to become the new "Ghost" doing his murderous bidding.
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Understandably, Eve is freaking out, and it only gets worse when Villanelle reveals that Raymond may or may not be in town.
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The only way to save Villanelle is to take the axe Raymond threw on the ground and use it to kill him.
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While men, uninterested in their partner's pleasure, might pound away at an unsatisfied female partner, such a fate would never befall Villanelle.
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The spy thriller, which pits Oh's British intelligence agent against a dangerous and unhinged assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer), debuted last April.
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The merry murderer might not care about dead dogs, cries for mercy, or poisoned lovers, but Villanelle does apparently care about Anna.
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Villanelle, almost fully clothed, is visibly bored during one encounter; Eve would rather talk about work than make love with her husband.
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At one point, Eve is messing with her hair when Villanelle leaves a bathroom stall and freezes at the sight of her.
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The eight-episode series, expected to premiere in 2018, will explore the "subversive, funny, obsessive relationship" that develops between Eve and Villanelle.
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For the show's first season, Waller-Bridge served as a writer and showrunner, adapting Luke Jennings' Codename Villanelle novel for the screen.
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Comer stars as assassin Villanelle on the BBC America thriller, which premiered in 2018 and has a third season on the way.
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It helps, of course, that the women tasked with embodying Eve and Villanelle are actors working at the top of their game.
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She finds Villanelle and Aaron in a restaurant and slips her a backup mic in a bread roll while Aaron takes a call.
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The finale's fantastical us-against-the-world setup was admittedly hokey but looked like the only way out – until Villanelle shot that gun.
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She watches those suspicious medics remove the body of the woman they shot, and overhears them talking about their intentions to capture Villanelle.
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Finally, Eve comes clean and says she took out the hit on herself, but Villanelle says she must do what she's been told.
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We don't see what Villanelle does to the Ghost, only that it works: Allister Peele's son took out the hit on his father.
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While Niko insists it's just an apple, Eve freaks out, remembering the apple that Villanelle left for her in Gabriel's crime scene photos.
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In fact, in response to Eve's questions, Carolyn disbands MI5's Villanelle-tracking task force and attempts to sequester Eve back to England.
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These certainly seem like valuable qualifications for a member of The Twelve, the Illuminati-like organization that employs Villanelle to eliminate its enemies.
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In "Nice Face," Villanelle's chat with Eve about optimal hairstyling is where their debut installment encounter ends (because Villanelle has murdering to do).
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Coincidentally, Villanelle acts precisely as silently shocked and gripped when she sees Eve for the first time in that series premiere hospital bathroom.
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What could be a typical police drama unfolds as a dramatic tale of obsession, psychopathy, and some truly fantastic outfits via Comer's Villanelle.
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The new trailer answers one of the biggest questions left hanging after the season 2 finale: Did Villanelle (Comer) really kill Eve (Oh)?
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In the Season 2 finale, Comer's assassin Villanelle shot MI6 operative Eve, played by Oh, but she is alive for the new season.
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It's clever, but later Aaron still is able to see that Villanelle was up to something when her back was turned to his cameras.
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This is good news for the MI6, but they might have another problem: Villanelle and Aaron seem to be connecting a little too well.
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In this episode, the team has moved closer to their target, requiring Villanelle to assume her most ambitious disguise yet: someone who doesn't murder.
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For starters, it introduced the possibility of another long-running female serial killer, which Villanelle (Jodie Comer) certainly won't be happy to hear about.
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Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) has fired Eve, but that's okay, because we were suspicious of her anyways after seeing her secret prison meeting with Villanelle.
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However, their whispered conversations are actually about the fact that Eve stabbed Villanelle, meaning she's withholding information from an investigation that she's working on.
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Even the bedspread — the one Villanelle asks about during a kill, and then orders for her own home later — is antique or second hand.
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When he tries to encourage her to come clean about stabbing Villanelle, Eve informs him she'll be re-assigning him to a new project.
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Carolyn intercepted a postcard to Eve from Villanelle that revealed her whereabouts, but sends Jess instead to investigate a recent murder in the city.
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Her anger is quickly replaced by a funny feeling pulling her to the room down the hall, where Villanelle is waiting behind the door.
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With some dry pasta, flowy pants, and a dash of glitter, Villanelle transforms herself into a kooky art teacher and crashes the drinks event.
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I'd like to amend that statement: Raymond (Adrian Scarborough), her old handler, shocks Villanelle, and he's on his way to meet with Aaron Peel.
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It's up to Villanelle to lead them to safety, which they manage by venturing into some underground tunnels and emerging in a remote ruin.
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The reason we should be so very worried about Eve is because she not only physically hurt Villanelle, she emotionally wounded her as well.
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Villanelle sleeps with men and women (killing off at least one boyfriend), but it's Eve with whom she becomes infatuated on a deeper level.
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Eve got fired, again On the pilot episode, MI5 security officer Eve Polastri is fired for failing to protect an assassination witness from Villanelle.
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And of course there are chic outfits, glamorous European settings, lusty stares between Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle and some intense physical brutality, too.
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I had grand plans to dress as Villanelle from "Killing Eve" in That Pink Dress, but time and logistics have made it less likely.
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And I knew Villanelle would be a challenge, but the idea of writing somebody who is utterly unforgivable was too delicious to turn down.
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And the glory of it is that the men in the show — even the good men — still underestimate or miss the point of Villanelle.
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She'd fought to master the loss, writing seventeen quickly successive drafts of an exactingly structured villanelle, a form with origins in the French Baroque.
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In Comer's hands, Villanelle is as funny as she is frightening, alluring and awful, and there's never a moment when she doesn't know it.
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However, in last week's episode, their first meeting ending with Villanelle taking a sturdy book to Aaron's face after he belittled her and storming out.
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This wasn't the best idea, because the suspect immediately takes a dislike to Villanelle, taunting her throughout dinner and their card game with Amber afterwards.
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Still on the hunt for stab victims in France that may or may not be Villanelle, her search is cut short by Niko (Owen McDonnell).
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For Phoebe Waller-Bridge (creator of Fleabag and the one responsible for bringing Killing Eve to the silver screen) the apartment perfectly sums up Villanelle.
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And the Twelve aren't just going to let Villanelle merrily look for Eve — whom she now refers to as her "girlfriend" — without hunting her down.
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The second-to-last thing Villanelle says to Eve is what suggests season 2 will be an entirely new, scary ball game for this duo.
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As Sebastian prattles on about something the longtime killer definitely doesn't care about, Villanelle is wonderstruck by a random woman walking in the opposite direction.
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It's likely "psychopathic" international hit woman Villanelle would also hate that phrase, because the assassin bristles at any attempt to put her in a box.
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By contrast, Villanelle—played by Jodie Comer ("Doctor Foster", "The White Princess")—is thriving, but in this case it's difficult to feel good about that.
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Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), the MI6 officer tasked with tracking Villanelle down, is instinctive and determined; Carolyn Martens (Fiona Shaw), her boss, is puzzlingly wily.
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Villanelle seduces and manipulates both men and women according to her whims, while Carolyn is revealed to have played two Russian operatives off each other.
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The show picks up 30 seconds after that, with Eve plotting a way to capture Villanelle again while the latter is recovering in a hospital.
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The episode opens with Eve describing Villanelle to a sketch artist, but as shot in close-up by director Jon East, it's romantic as hell.
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Eve is now without her government job, and her ex-boss may be part of the major assassination conspiracy that Villanelle has been carrying out.
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One reference point was Spike Jonze's 2016 ad for KENZO World perfume, which Waller-Bridge and Bradbeer sent to Comer as a clue to Villanelle.
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"It was almost like working within a received form, like a sonnet or a villanelle, to write into the context of the script," he said.
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Particularly with the smile, I remember we spent a lot of time toying to get just what kind of smile Villanelle gives back to her.
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When she and Villanelle cross paths for the first time, it feels like two genres smashing into one another — bloody, globe-trotting suspense and workplace dramedy — as Villanelle, who's come to a hospital to kill a witness in protective custody, advises Eve, who's there to question that same person, to wear her hair down when the two share an unsuspecting moment together in the bathroom.
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"You will never understand how much harder it is to be nice and normal and decent than it is to be like you," Eve tells Villanelle.
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This means season 2 will likely open up with the aftermath of said stabbing, with Villanelle on the run and Eve recovering from her impulsive decision.
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But the games are over and Eve takes Villanelle to the Ghost, who has been taken out into the forest and put into a metal shed.
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Both seem fitting to promote a show that follows a titillating cat-and-mouse chase between its two leads, Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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Over the course of the show, a mutual obsession has blossomed between Eve, an MI6 agent, and Villanelle, an assassin and the target of Eve's investigation.
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She would have strangled her to death had Konstantin, who must have some kind of Villanelle beeper, not crashed into the bathroom and pulled her off.
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Villanelle stokes the fire, encouraging Gemma to do anything in her power, no matter how manipulative, to seduce Niko and break him up from his wife.
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Back in her room, Villanelle realizes the wallet she stole doesn't have more than a few coins, and Gabriel says he doesn't have any money either.
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Villanelle and Sebastian's short-lived Killing Eve relationship completely subverts the traditional assassin-love interest trope we've been spoon-fed since the dawn of Jame Bond.
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Female duos aren't a novel concept for a TV show, but Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and her would-be assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) are something different.
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It's immediately clear Eve has an obsession with the freedom and ferocity of women assassins, and, in Villanelle, she finds the perfect avatar for said obsession.
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Oh, Sandra Oh as a bored MI5 agent (the show's titular Eve) who forms an obsession with a charismatic female assassin (Jodie Comer's Villanelle) isn't enough?
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Allow me: The first two episodes hint at the fact that Villanelle and Eve aren't just attracted to each other because they respect each other's games.
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Villanelle, meanwhile, is a murderous, sociopathic version of a manic pixie dream girl with perfect doll-like features and the icy stare of a pro domme.
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He sent me a villanelle, the poem about how there's no paradise in Hell, and I would shoot a lot of empty rooms in his house.
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She wouldn't murder someone by gleefully stabbing them on a crowded Berlin nightclub floor, like Villanelle; she kills by slipping a needle under her target's toenail.
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Even Villanelle, the childlike assassin at the center of "Killing Eve," is a millennial acting out against a world whose problems started long before she arrived.
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As played by Jodie Comer on the mesmerizing British thriller "Killing Eve," Villanelle (real name: Oksana Astankova) is a psychopath with a gleeful passion for murder.
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I don't know if you get Kinder eggs in America, but it's like her outer chocolate shell is Villanelle, and inside, the surprise is: That's Oksana.
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When they first meet in the hospital bathroom, I think Eve brings up a lot of emotions for Villanelle about Anna [Villanelle's former teacher and lover].
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While Villanelle initially tries to cover her tracks by saying she was ordering him a surprise cake, she abruptly breaks character to launch a full-on attack.
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With a glint in her eye, Villanelle grabs her knife and makes her way towards the MI6 agent — only to cut Aaron's throat at the last minute.
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Villanelle is bisexual, and for all the nuance we see around femininity and desire, Villanelle's bisexuality is portrayed in a way that is both tired and damaging.
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Throughout Season 1, Eve (Sandra Oh) has transformed from a paper-pushing MI5 functionary to a thriving international spy, determinedly pursuing Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a prolific assassin.
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Barnett said that when there were questions internally at the network about how to make Villanelle charming, all of them were answered when Comer joined the show.
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While these women's coifs are near-identical, the difference between these two scenes is what happens after Villanelle gets the object of her current attention's hair down.
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The first moment to remember hails from second episode "Deal With Him Later," when Villanelle and the ill-fated Sebastian (Charlie Hamblett) are on their walking date.
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Before she pounces — or stabs, or throws ice cream on a child — on the brand new BBC America thriller, Villanelle is the most well-behaved lady around.
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If we're all being honest, Villanelle has the kind of quiet strength real-life international assassins likely possess, but are rarely given in whiz-bang pop culture.
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This time, Eve is out for revenge: Villanelle has murdered one of her only remaining leads in identifying the assassin's employers, and her job is in jeopardy.
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Villanelle dresses for excess, effusively wicked in pink tulle or satin, a high-collar Edwardian shirt, or a regal negligee worn by day with gilded chandelier earrings.
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Others signify of-the-moment insouciance: An obscene gesture from Villanelle, one of the protagonists of the popular BBC America series "Killing Eve," is a big mood.
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He ultimately wants 19 dishes on his menu, as the restaurant's name, Villanelle, refers to a 16th-century Neapolitan style of melodic poetry consisting of 19 lines.
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Killing Eve follows Sandra Oh's Eve Polastri, a counter-terrorist agent recruited to hunt for the international assassin known only as Villanelle, played unforgettably by Jodie Comer.
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Also, what's so important about Villanelle is that she observes and watches how people interact with each other, and she then uses that when she needs it.
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If you'll recall, Villanelle narrowly escaped death after Eve stabbed her in the abdomen in Villanelle's Paris apartment during what was otherwise a sweet encounter in the finale.
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When we last saw the women, Villanelle fled as Eve looked for a way to save her, starting their stylish game of cat and mouse all over again.
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After they leave, Villanelle begins limping through the streets of Paris, clutching her stomach wound and pouring alcohol on it from a bottle she finds on the ground.
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But this doesn't mean Villanelle is out of the picture, especially because Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) has received a recording of Villanelle's cries for Eve Polastri on the phone.
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Villanelle has officially gone freelance with Konstantin (Kim Bodnia), but has to find inventive ways to keep herself interested now that Eve is no longer on her case.
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The plan falls apart from there, as Eve wants to go back to her hotel to check on Hugo, but Villanelle wants to escape off into the sunset.
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Killing Eve's big Konstantin reveal arrives in the very last scene of "Neat," after Eve and Carolyn have found irrefutable evidence Villanelle is alive and murdering yet again.
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Annalise, Frank, and Villanelle not only embody these characteristics to a T they are such well-known and prominent characters that they have the potential to become iconic.
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Together, they developed a Villanelle-focused pilot script for one of the Sky TV channels in the UK, which ended up passing on the show in spring 2015.
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In the drama's very first scene, Villanelle is alone in a Vienna cafe, seemingly making cute faces at a little girl eating ice cream a few tables away.
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Eve's close friend Bill Pargrave (David Haig) is long dead, murdered by Villanelle; Villanelle's shady handler Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) is also long dead, and also by Villanelle's hand.
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During the duo's infamous "I Have a Thing About Bathrooms" forced dinner party, Villanelle threatens her way into an impromptu shared meal rather than a regular old murder.
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Villanelle will have none of that sweet savior nonsense and begins firing off gun shots at Eve, even if that means she will bleed out and die, too.
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She's best not in the crown of sonnets or the occasional villanelle, but in poems where she lets her will-o'-the-wisp imagination find its own course.
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Villanelle is given vivid colors, flowers in bloom, Parisian architecture, and a fabulous wardrobe—including a vivid green Miu Miu jacket, and a pink tulle Molly Goddard dress.
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In theory, Villanelle is easy to dismiss as a TV cliché, one we're all supposedly sick of: the serial killer so clever that her crimes double as art.
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Yes. In Episode 5, which is my favorite episode, right before she meets Villanelle [the hit woman, played by Jodie Comer], you find Eve at a bus stop.
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Poem The villanelle (Italian for "rustic") is a pastoral song whose recurring lines and interlocking rhyme scheme create the ideal vehicle for Adam Giannelli's paean to the past.
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This is the distinction Elizabeth Bishop illuminates, by pretending to elide it, in her villanelle "One Art," perhaps the most famous reckoning with loss in all of literature.
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The rest of the episode details Polastri and her case partner Bill Pargrave's (David Haig) international escapades as they attempt to track down the organization Villanelle works for.
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After that bloody, alienating Killing Eve season 1 finale, where do Eve and Villanelle (a fantastic Jodie Comer, who deserves her own awards love) go in its 2019 return?
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Julian gets in a few jabs, including a close call via strangulation, but it's of course Villanelle who emerges victorious when she stabs a knitting needle into his neck.
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In her spare time, she's taken to staring down statue impersonators in hopes of making them flinch, but Villanelle is the one flinching when she's handed her next assignment.
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To get ready for the most conflicting murder of her life, Villanelle goes into pre-emptive mourning, ordering room service champagne and making a hotel employee stroke her hair.
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This is good enough for Villanelle, who agrees to the terms but isn't ready to jet off without one last look at Eve, who she spots through the peephole.
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He was on the receiving end of that gunshot, but rather than stay and help, she promises she'll call 911 on her way out to find and save Villanelle.
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Cain, who primarily works with stars Jodie Comer (Villanelle) and Sandra Oh (Eve Polastri), says there is even more to the show's hidden beauty messages than meets the eye.
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Villanelle, after catching a glimpse of Eve in a bathroom, seeks out other curly-haired older women to satisfy her sexual urges until she can get the real thing.
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While Villanelle is obviously one of the greatest assassins alive, oftentimes with powerful, very bad men for prey, Eve proves to be just as formidable in her own way.
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Although we've watched the hitwoman manipulate others for eight episodes, her apartment conversation with Eve seems to be the first time Villanelle has been fully honest with another person.
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Villanelle, by contrast, has a fancy flat in Paris and a killer wardrobe that veers from pretty brocade tailoring to pussy bow blouses to that voluminous Molly Goddard dress.
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Although Villanelle should kill Eve, she puts down her gun and relaxes on the bed with Eve, who stabs her in the abdomen with a knife from her waistband.
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Villanelle, the wily assassin of "Killing Eve," is more seditious, dressing for her murderous assignations in filmy ruche-necked Edwardian frocks or layer upon layer of dainty pink tulle.
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Just one year later, she made her debut as Villanelle, the diabolical killer obsessed with Oh's agent Eve Polastri, and the character that would make her an Emmy winner.
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Villanelle is a psychopath assassin with an unparalleled knack for murder, but she's also snarky and playful, with a love of mimicking passersby and drowning herself in luxurious clothes.
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As fans who watched Sunday night's "Wide Awake" saw, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is currently trapped in the all-seeing, all-controlling luxe Italian apartment of Aaron Peel (Henry Lloyd-Hughes).
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Outside her front door, one of Aaron Peel's minions has left Villanelle an apology of sorts — a book of philosophy and a request for her to join him at lunch.
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During one, Julian's mother tells Villanelle to be "careful" of him, but it's unclear if that's the dementia talking or her genuine knowledge of what the man is capable of.
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If Eve did survive the initial shooting, such a response would be the only way to make Villanelle believe she succeeding in killing Eve — who just rejected her — and leaving.
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If Eve did pull a death-themed bait and switch on Villanelle for her own survival, someone please get Hugo some crisps from his favorite sticky-floored fried chicken spot.
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At least, I assume you're tuning in week after week in hopes that Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) will finally reunite after that awk stab moment in Paris.
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We learn it's his wife who wants him killed as Villanelle dons a tutu and a pig mask to lure him into a private room in the Red Light District.
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Over some hard alcohol, Konstantin explains that MI6 is protecting his family, but that his family believe him to be dead from that little instance when Villanelle, uh, shot him.
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He also warns Eve that she'd do well to move on from Villanelle, likening the assassin to a parasite (specifically, the Hungry Caterpillar, burrowing holes into people and occupying space).
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Specifically, she asks Kenny to find the location of Konstantin's family — something Carolyn previously told Konstantin she would never tell him — so she can exchange it for information about Villanelle.
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Then, when she starts to notice her appearance or consider what she was doing with her hair, it helped show a development of the relationship she was building with Villanelle.
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Villanelle and Eve are due to resume their chase in Season 2 of the series, premiering on April 7, and I've been feeling an undue amount of trepidation about it.
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Eve Polastri's transformation — awakened by Villanelle — is the central subject of Killing Eve, which is based on novellas by Luke Jennings, and was developed for television by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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The new BBC America series' second episode revolves around how both MI6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) deal with being sidelined in their respective careers.
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Presumably, if I got injured (shredded my elbow writing a villanelle), I didn't run the risk of some NYU kid coming in and taking my spot on the poetry team.
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"What critics said: "If Eve is our frayed tether to reality, Villanelle embodies the entitled, otherworldly glamour of both being in her line of work and taking pride in it.
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Everything that happens between these two still holds weight — and on this show, as long as the relationship between Eve and Villanelle is still working, nothing else matters too much.
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As the first season unfolds, Villanelle and Eve start to develop an odd intimacy, as if the efforts to monitor the other inadvertently resulted in a dangerous and unsavory tango.
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On the series, Eve's desk-job as an M15 officer isn't exactly measuring up to her spy fantasies until she's handed the mission to track down the unpredictable assassin Villanelle.
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Killing Eve is returning for its third season, and we can't wait to catch up with MI6 operative Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), the world's most stylish assassin.
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The final scene of the first season of "Killing Eve," in which the unlikely spy Eve stabs the master assassin Villanelle, was worked out in Ms. Waller-Bridge's mother's kitchen.
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Jodie Comer, who plays the assassin Villanelle, mingled with guests including Michelle Wolf, Samantha Bee, Bob Balaban, Steve Kroft and Sarah Barnett, the AMC executive in charge of BBC America.
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It's a showcase of dramatic irony—Villanelle is watching her the whole time, and she steals Polastri's suitcase, checks out its contents, and buys her a new, flattering, luxury wardrobe.
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As Villanelle explains to a world-weary Eve that she's scored the date with Aaron, her two dates from the night before leave in succession, which does not improve Eve's mood.
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He also taunts her about the presence of this second female serial killer, (incorrectly) telling young Villanelle that Eve is no longer interested in her the way she used to be.
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Back at the hotel, after a stern phone call from Raymond about all the clothes she's buying, Villanelle is informed by the receptionist that there's a "new guest" at the hotel.
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Konstantin tells Villanelle that he has a car outside, and that she can join him and go freelance...or else face the MI6, who happen to be arriving in five minutes.
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They are unable to control their appetite — for food (Villanelle is obsessed with sweets, Annalise drinks vodka and can't get enough ice cream, Frank eats ribs for breakfast), sex, or control.
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Although a woman might want to slow down such activity because it's boring, painful, or both, Sebastian asks Villanelle to take a chill pill because he's enjoying everything far too much.
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Interestingly, the thriller nearly gives Eve and Villanelle, who are attracted to each other like opposite poles of the same deadly magnet, what they, alone, would each call a happy ending.
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Her portrayal of Eve Polastri, an MI5 agent obsessed with her pursuit of killer-for-hire Villanelle (Jodie Comer) was phenomenal, and an Emmys win has been a long time coming.
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The writers know that Villanelle does not look like a formidable killer and that Eve, as an Asian-American woman with great hair, is a departure from the charming Englishman spy.
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The final set piece starts with Bill recognizing Villanelle on a subway platform, where she's spying on Eve so obviously that she might as well be standing underneath a neon arrow.
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The show's second season picks up exactly 30 seconds after the first season ended, in Villanelle's "chic as shit" Paris flat (Eve's descriptor), Eve shaking in horror after she stabbed Villanelle.
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At one point they pulled that scene out, and I was like, 'No, you've got to put that scene back in, because she's about to come face to face with Villanelle.
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Even Villanelle doesn't seem to be taking it too seriously — her approach to the kill is so comically efficient, so artfully contrived, that it rises to the level of self-parody.
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If you're creeped out by Villanelle — the angel-faced psychopath from "Killing Eve" — you may want to steer clear of the nameless woman who opens this corrosive double bill of monologues.
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Villanelle butchers her way through various adversaries with such an impressive mixture of skill, dead-eyed determination and – yep – humour that you actually end up rooting for her in some scenes.
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But it was crucial that Oh find a worthy scene partner to play Villanelle — and whew, did Killing Eve find a hell of an actor to take the job in Comer.
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She attempts to break through to her newest killer, and ends up asking if she's ever heard of a fellow female assassin by the name of Villanelle or Oxana (her birth name).
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Whatever you want to call it, as Eve applies the lipstick Villanelle left in her bag, her lip gets cut by what turns out to be a knife hidden in the tube.
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Unlike Eve, Villanelle is very aware of and attentive to her physical needs; she thrives off of sex, couture, sweets, champagne, and seeing the life drain from the eyes of her victims.
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The easiest way to explain all of this hair-based flirtation is that Villanelle is obsessed with Eve and has turned the woman's wild, tumbling tresses into the symbol for her fixation.
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The series, Deadline reports, follows Eve (Oh), a somewhat despondent MI5 security officer who finds a new purpose in life after being assigned to take down meticulous, merciless killer, Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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Luke Jennings, the creator of the "Codename Villanelle" spy novels on which the hit show is based, took to Twitter to argue that it would be a "step down" for Ms Comer.
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Villanelle's appeal is that's she's as psychopathic as she is sympathetic Through their mutual attraction, Eve and Villanelle revel in the ways only women see one another for who we really are.
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She likes to keep Villanelle very far away from her own accent, which I think is wise, but there hasn't been an accent she hasn't been able to do, or a language.
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The show careens between genres, at once an office sitcom, a police procedural and a screwball romance between the stylish assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) and the unlikely spy Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh).
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Villanelle is a psychopath with great emotional range, which is not to say that her facial expressions convey normal human reactions — they seem to originate from a different place than everybody else's.
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During the outing, William was gifted a pair of the children's pajamas worn by Killing Eve star Jodie Comer she played cold-bloodied assassin Villanelle in the second season of the show.
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And Killing Eve was picked up for a third season, in which Waller-Bridge will play her first role in the show — as a victim murdered by the show's central assassin, Villanelle.
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Flash forward to the final shot of Killing Eve season 2, and you'll see a resemblance between the way Hugo flopped onto the ground and the way Eve collapses after Villanelle shoots her.
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He's been urging her to forget about Eve, and a frustrated Villanelle heads back to the Red Light District to watch the police and medics busy themselves at the scene of her crime.
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She charges at him, resulting in an uncharacteristic embrace that her previously handler can't bring himself to return due to the fact that the last time they saw each other, Villanelle shot him.
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I don't see how Villanelle could ever become a more positive bi character, but perhaps Eve will come out as bi this season too — that could complicate the show's overall portrayal of bisexuality.
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When Waller-Bridge wanted the classically trained Fiona Shaw to play Carolyn, the boss at MI13 who tasks Eve with finding Villanelle, the two of them went to lunch to discuss the possibility.
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Even the tiny details of Villanelle end up being funny, like her madcap chirp of a laugh, a single costume choice she makes in episode 2, or the way she dominates during sex.
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The same, perversely, goes for Villanelle (Jodie Comer) and Konstantin (Kim Bodnia), a relationship that would have likely been made sexually sinister or abusive had it been written through a sensationalized male gaze.
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Ms. Waller-Bridge realized early on that Eve and Villanelle were more than just hero and villain; they were two broken women whose flaws bound them together in a twisted pas de deux.
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Was that scene — where Villanelle appears at Eve's apartment, and it's their first one-on-one encounter where each knows who the other is — as intense to shoot as it is to watch?
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Watching Comer's Villanelle operate feels like watching a lion pace far enough away that the danger of her ripping you apart isn't exactly immediate, but the threat of that changing is definitely imminent.
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Villanelle enjoys that people are drawn to her, but she rarely uses that part of her arsenal when actually making a kill, preferring instead to explode with precise, horrifying bouts of focused violence.
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Villanelle, disguised as a pink-haired American named Billy, has been sent to win Aaron's affection and hopefully score a ticket to one of his meetings in Rome that should unlock this whole mystery.
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"We wanted to create space for [Villanelle] that was both real, but also a fantastic space, a grandiose apartment, but without being showy," production designer Kristian Milstead told Apartment Therapy back in April 2018.
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Considering what we know about Villanelle — she's the jackhammer in all situations, sexual ones included — she probably wouldn't allow Sebastian to wrap things up in the bedroom if she wasn't already taken care of.
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There's a trick to Killing Eve's criminally fun to watch assassin Villanelle, played by the wickedly good Jodie Comer, and that trick is just how well the hit woman can fly under the radar.
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Villanelle, never one for subtlety, goes out and seduces a woman around Eve's age with the same curly hair, calling her "Eve" before running away and demanding that the confused woman go find her.
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The sexy drama follows government operative Eve Polastri ( Sandra Oh, in an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance) in her quest to track down the gifted and prolific female assassin, Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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In Ondaatje's best book, Divisadero, Anna, the novel's narrator—herself an echo of Hana in The English Patient—writes that life is "like a villanelle," a recursive poem held together by its repeated rhymes.
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From the instant Villanelle, the lightly self-mocking assassin of "Killing Eve" played by Jodie Comer, dispatches a Mafia don by plunging a hairpin into his eye, her predilection for theatrical extremes is plain.
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For most of this second season Eve is laboring under a fantasy about what being close to Villanelle would be like, and then the murder in Episode 8 is such a wake-up call.
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And we talked a lot at the beginning of the creative process about "Paradise Lost" and about Eve being Eve, Carolyn [Fiona Shaw] being a cold God figure and Villanelle being the tempting snake.
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The subversive spy thriller in which Sandra Oh's MI6 agent Eve Polastri chased down the assassin Villanelle for eight incredible episodes has been available to stream on BBC America since it aired in April.
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The other hiccup comes in Episode 2, where a still-wounded (literally; she's still oozing from her stab wound) Villanelle somehow becomes the world's unluckiest grifter, even though we know she's an elite criminal.
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While neither of them can get close to Aaron given that they have already met, Villanelle can get close to the only relationship he has in his life: with his sister, Amber Peele (Shannon Tarbet).
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The Gay Times reported that Oh was "quick to dismiss" a possible romance between Eve and Villanelle and maintained that the storyline was "not a focus or a message" that Killing Eve was built around.
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The two sneak out with Villanelle (as Billy) pretending she is bringing the "maid" with her to help her carry her shopping, instructing the guards to not disturb Aaron, who is in an important meeting.
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Especially since, as Eve and Kenny learn towards the close of penultimate season 1 episode "I Don't Want To Be Free," Carolyn had at minimum one dubious rendezvous with Villanelle during the latter's prison stay.
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A huge word-of-mouth hit for BBC America, Killing Eve saw Oh play the role of an intelligence officer in England who becomes obsessed with tracking down the psychopathic woman assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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Villanelle and Leila both came to our televisions last year; it's almost as though, for a human, relatable bi character to appear onscreen, there needed to be another bi serial killer to even things out.
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The fact it's hard to know if Villanelle actually came during the hookup, which she completely dominates for her own pleasure, points out a flaw in how viewers have been trained to view sex scenes.
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I fell for the show immediately — right after I met Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), the show's instantly magnetic core characters who got harder to resist the more I got to know them.
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Villanelle working with MI6 is a business transaction that temporarily distracts from the red in her ledger and the fact that she surely must be prosecuted for manslaughter in the future (think of Bill, you monsters!).
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While the first few episodes were focused on the tantalizing tension between Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), "Desperate Times" takes us back to the haunting, bloody murder season 1 pretty much desensitized us to.
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Outside, just as Niko has left Eve standing alone and distraught, Villanelle approaches her love interest from behind, and gets so close you think they might finally meet again — only to withdraw at the last moment.
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I loved the first season of Killing Eve — loved Jodie Comer's murderous fashion icon Villanelle, and Sandra Oh's (finally) starring turn as not-so-straight woman Eve Polastri, and the static charge of their mutual fascination.
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And Killing Eve has created a relationship between Eve and Villanelle that has never before existed between women on television: a queer will-they-or-won't-they romance in which one suitor is an admitted psychopath.
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In the first season, Villanelle takes out Frank, a mole in MI6, and leaves his corpse on the bed à la "Goldfinger": he is wearing one of Eve's dresses, and has had his penis cut off.
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Importantly, while she is obsessing over Eve (and challenging the binary queer/straight storyline), Villanelle is also challenging the queer/straight wardrobe code, flouncing around in traditionally feminine clothing while plotting her daring, cold-hearted kills.
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The series is based on Luke Jennings' "Codename Villanelle" novella series and earned two Emmy nominations: one for Sandra Oh for best actress in a drama series and one for best writing for a drama series.
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One character warns Eve that Villanelle is like the "very hungry caterpillar" in the children's book, but it's her shameless appetite that makes her so titillating, along with her array of facial expressions—avid, cold, giddy.
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A few clues soon lead Eve to her suspect, Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a formidable assassin who traverses the globe assigned to take down one hopeless victim at a time, all while Eve studies her every move.
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The BBC series follows Jodie Comer as an unhinged female assassin named Villanelle and Sandra Oh as Eve, an MI5 security officer who wishes to be a spy, on a wild adventure of cat and mouse.
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Now that is something the Ghost will talk about, because turns out Villanelle has a moniker of her own in the serial killer community (I hope they do have a book club): the demon with no face.
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Oh even won a Screen Actors Guild award in the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series category for her portrayal of Eve Polastri, an MI5 officer who's hunting skilled assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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After all, Villanelle goes to great pains to prove she's really not going to kill the woman who has been pursuing her for weeks and moves gingerly around Eve, just so she doesn't get spooked and flee.
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And as a fun bonus, the show even acknowledges the tension between Eve (Oh) and Villanelle (Comer) for the electric mutual attraction that it is, as they constantly live on the knife's edge of admiration and repulsion.
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The BBC show, which debuted this spring, features our lord and savior Sandra Oh as a relatably bumbling and neurotic British Intelligence agent name Eve Polastri who is trying to track down a serial killer named Villanelle.
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Your taste for seduction, passion, and strong independent characters will be satiated by the hit drama, which stars Sandra Oh as a MI5 security officer with a personal vengeance for/obsession with Villanelle, a psychopathic serial killer.
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In the chaotic aftermath, Villanelle gets to a hospital, where she does what she always does: exploits society's misogyny by imitating a victim of it, using her pretty-white-girl-ness (and multiple accents) to attract sympathy.
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The British actress, 26, took home the 2019 Emmy Award for outstanding lead actress in a drama series for her performance as Villanelle in Killing Eve — and she was shocked that she beat out her fellow nominees.
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Villanelle, bored as ever, makes her way to Eve's empty house to essentially fuck some shit up — rearranging CDs, using her toothbrush — while our agent is at a hookah breakfast with Carolyn, because Carolyn is tired of eggs.
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An interview with Peele's two children confirms it: They don't recognize Villanelle as a possible woman who could have come in contact with their father, so that must mean there's a new female serial killer on the loose.
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Both are mordant stories about assassins: Barry (Bill Hader), a burned out ex-soldier who longs to become an actor, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a gleeful huntress playing cat-and-mouse with an intelligence-agency bureaucrat (Sandra Oh).
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Killing Eve's second season picks up mere moments after where it left off last year when Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) finally reunited...only for Eve to go ahead and stab the Russian assassin in the stomach.
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" Another fan tweeted, "It is starting to feel like we are being gaslighted into believing that we made up the romantic nature of Villanelle and Eve's relationship, when it has been clear on our screens from the very beginning.
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In a final signal Villanelle truly didn't care about Sebastian — and therefore definitely would have demanded an orgasm earlier if he didn't give one to her, soft male emotions be damned — is her reaction to his death: a shrug.
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Now, only time will tell if Killing Eve — a show that hasn't even told us if Villanelle has a last name, let alone how she ended up in her profession — will ever let us meet the now infamous Anna.
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The fact that Villanelle, in her child-pulling-wings-off-flies way, becomes just as fascinated by Eve is the biggest and most pleasant early surprise of the series, a sign that it isn't going to follow predictable patterns.
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Yet even with its shocking finale this weekend, Killing Eve escaped those criticisms entirely, thanks to a few specific choices — including the decision to let Villanelle and Eve confess, if not fully act on, their feelings for one another.
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That would be Sandra Oh, who picked up a Golden Globe for season one, as the MI6 analyst Eve Polastri; and Jodie Comer as Villanelle, the shadowy assassin who Eve rather abruptly stabbed at the end of season one.
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Though "Wide Awake" features Aaron and Villanelle commiserating on their respective internal voids in, the first minute-and-a-half of "You're Mine" proves TV's best assassin is dealing with a darkness far more powerful than Aaron's innocuous nerd glasses suggest.
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Binds like, let's say, Villanelle not reading any of the research and therefore being unable to answer basic questions about philosophy, or accidentally revealing that she knows more about Aaron than she should, or being caught snooping by Aaron's trick bookcase.
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Villanelle, after half-heartedly trying to shoot Eve, disappears, setting up their cat-and-mouse game to resume in Season 22011 — which begins airing on BBC America on Sunday, April 21, and picks up 26 seconds after Villanelle's escape from Eve.
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Her reaction is so intense, Eve asks Villanelle, whom she has never met before and is dressed as a nurse, if she is "alright" in much the same concerned manner Sebastian questioned the young woman about that unidentified woman in Paris.
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Whereas he might pose as a valet or a security guard, Villanelle—who loves the theatricality of a costume—exploits the service jobs typically reserved for women, such as nursing, waitressing or sex work, to gain access to her victims.
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By showing women through each other's eyes, antiheroine narratives like Killing Eve offer an escape from male perspectives on womanhood Only Villanelle sees the full extent of Eve's power and capability and — far from feeling threatened — adores her for it.
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So when Villanelle starts to get sloppy as she stalks Eve, the fact that her "slip-ups" always include Bill catching a glimpse of her hardly seems coincidental — especially because she always walks away from them with a sly grin.
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Villanelle may or may not be a psychopath The charismatic killer who likes to watch the life drain from her victims' eyes and is able to laugh at dead bodies, also has a soft spot for older dark-haired women.
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Both women rapidly flee the scene: Eve back to England to try to return to her regular life without letting anyone know that she might be a killer; Villanelle to scam her way into some medical treatment without incriminating Eve.
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Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a psychopathic assassin, barely contained by the shadowy organization that employs her, and Eve (Sandra Oh) is an MI5 analyst who leaves her post and risks losing everything in an obsessive quest to track her down.
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The two-minute clip has the feel of a James Bond/Killing Eve hybrid, interspersing a fair bit of fast-paced action with a very Villanelle-style sequence in which Black Widow faces off against her sister, Yelena (Florence Pugh).
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Because you're never quite sure what she'll do -- and how far she'll go -- the show has a genuine sense of menace, mixed with the disarming humor that comes from Villanelle rolling her eyes and throwing tantrums like a pouty teenager.
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Season 2 of "Killing Eve" starts Sunday on BBC America and picks up where the first season left off, immediately following the weird, violent confrontation in which Villanelle has been stabbed by her frenemy, the MI5 officer Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh).
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Until they meet again, the best way to keep track of what Eve and Villanelle are up to is to follow each of their journey's separately, in hopes that their two lines will cross a little sooner this time around than before.
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The season 2 closer, "You're Mine," seems to be giving viewers what they've always wanted: a twisted look at the prolonged romance between the titular Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and the assassin she's been fixated on for 16 episodes, Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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Don't tell Eve, but this whole presentation was a charade ordered by Carolyn to evaluate the rogue agent, particularly how Eve reacted to images of gore (barely flinched) compared to an image of Villanelle (she was barely able to peek at the screen).
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Villanelle lies and says she loooooves Raymond and doesn't miss Konstantin at all, whereas Konstantin informs her that Raymond is only assigned to killers who are on their last legs, and that it's his job to shoot them like a retired horse. But!
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There's Eve Polastri (Grey Anatomy alum Sandra Oh), a British-born, American-raised MI5 employee who is stuck at a desk job when we meet her, and Villanelle (Jodie Comer), who is certainly not stuck to anything other than her knack for killing.
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Because, with Killing Eve already confirmed for a season 2, this is the kind of ending that sets up Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) for an even more tense, no-holds-barred cat and mouse game of a second season.
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Eve and Villanelle eventually find themselves lying next to each other in bed, leading Killing Eve to the closest it has come to fully confirming the pair's season-long obsession isn't merely a strange game of espionage tag, wherein game is recognizing game.
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Our hero, an M15 security officer named Eve (Sandra Oh) finds herself caught in a cat and mouse game with a sadistic assassin who calls herself Villanelle (Jodie Comer), one in which the pair's growing obsession with each other ventures into homoerotic territory.
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It's the kind of desire where you need to know every part of someone's body and face because you are fascinated by them (when Villanelle buys Eve an expensive designer dress, it fits eerily well, as if it were tailored for her body).
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The show features an eccentric Russian assassin named Villanelle -- played by award-winning newcomer Jodie Comer -- and an MI6 investigator who becomes obsessed with her, played by Sandra Oh. Fiona Shaw, who plays an MI6 boss, won the award for best supporting actress.
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But Eve has bigger problems to worry about, mainly that Niko isn't answering her texts, and as Villanelle unhelpfully points out when she plops herself across from Eve at a coffee shop, it's going to take a little more than a blowjob to fix this.
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Simpson said as much in a video that ended up providing significant inspiration for Villanelle, in which the 36-year-old frankly answers questions about the killing in a way so calm and clear that it defies all conceptions of how a murderer behaves.
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In her first role as a series regular since she left Grey's Anatomy (sob!), Sandra Oh plays Eve, a securities operative (I don't know what that is, admittedly) who ends up pitted against a contract killer, Villanelle (Jodie Comer, who led Starz's The White Princess).
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For all the series' twists and turns—there's a secret assassin organization, in cahoots with a secret spy organization, or something—its primal pleasure is always in watching Eve and Villanelle obsess over each other, like Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham, in their day.
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Based on a series of stories by Luke Jennings, "Killing Eve" follows the underachieving British intelligence agent Eve Polastri (the "Grey's Anatomy" alum Sandra Oh, also an associate producer) as she tracks a glamorous, young female assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer) across Europe.
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Some pretty big plot points were established in this episode that we should be looking out for later this season, such as the calls Villanelle makes to the school about Niko (Owen McDonnell), and the fact that Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) now knows the location of his family.
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Instead, the true heart-stopping drama comes from watching Villanelle and the titular Eve, who ditches her tedious desk job for a boots on the ground spy gig following a series of unfortunate events, square off against each other, even when they're separated by hundreds of miles.
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Co-created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the genius behind "Fleabag" (whose second season débuts in May), it features two wildly watchable performances: those of Sandra Oh, as the workaholic intelligence officer Eve, and Jodie Comer, as the girlish sociopath Villanelle, each the object of the other's obsession.
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Part of the show is about wish fulfillment, but a lot of this series for me is about saying, if you love Villanelle, which we all do because she's heaven, can you still love her if she misunderstands a situation so much that she kills a child?
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With the season finale just around the corner, let's do a quick debrief of where we are now on Killing Eve: Not only have Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) reunited since their little stabby encounter in Paris, they've now fully joined forces for an MI6 mission.
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We don't have all of the answers (yet), but we do know this: Eve and Villanelle are at it again — and their drama picks up immediately where it left off (36 seconds, to be exact), which means things are going to be action-packed and, well, probably bloody.
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ET. The spy thriller, which pits British intelligence agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) against a dangerous and unhinged assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer), debuted last April, and over eight episodes, it developed a cult following and a spot on many TV critics' Top 10 TV shows of 2018 lists.
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With a set of razor-sharp scripts from showrunner Phoebe Waller-Bridge and unimpeachable lead performances from Jodie Comer, as the flamboyant killer-for-hire as Villanelle, and Sandra Oh as Eve, the sneakily brilliant agent hunting her down, Killing Eve was smart and sexy and utterly unpredictable.
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Set in Europe (mainly Venice) during the Napoleonic Wars, the book alternates between the narration of Henri, who wants to be a drummer in Napoleon's army, but ends up a cook, and Villanelle, the cross-dressing daughter of a Venetian boatman, born with webbed feet during a solar eclipse.
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For this mission, she's a pink-haired jobless New Yorker named Billie with as many philosophy degrees as she has DUIs, so she's going to "coincidentally" cross paths with Amber in AA. To pull this off, Carolyn explains in a meeting with Eve and Villanelle, they have to be totally analogue.
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Back home, Eve learns Niko (Owen McDonnell) has to go to Oxford for a few days to help out with a spelling bee — perfect news for Eve, who needs the house empty for a while to carry out her grande Villanelle plan (turns out, Niko's absence is another Carolyn scheme).
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I'm just not all that eager to see their world get bigger, to learn more about the shadowy-ass organization that's been employing Villanelle, or, god forbid, to witness what feels like it'll become more and more inevitable as the show goes on — an eventual teaming-up against a common foe.
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Villanelle (Comer), international assassin and millennial psychopath, may have settled into a new floor-to-ceiling, wall-to-wall brown apartment in London as she works as a sort of honorary MI6 agent in season 2, but we're still holding out for her to return to her stylishly decaying apartment in Paris.
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As Eve has Kenny search their database for women in the medical profession against a list of cleaners in Peele's building, she and Hugo (Edward Bluemel) jet out for a quick dinner that almost ends in a kiss, but does end with Eve admitting she likes watching Villanelle, and being watched by her.
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Villanelle was a challenging role to cast, because although she seems fun and likes to dress in hilariously over-the-top clothes — indeed, Villanelle's pink organza dress was a popular Halloween costume last year — more than anything else, she enjoys watching the spark of life leave the eyes of those she has killed.
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At least, he thinks he's following her; really, Villanelle has lured him there, and when they're in the middle of the teeming, dancing throng, she turns back on Bill with a terrifying smile, and stabs him over and over and over — just in time for Eve to catch up and watch him die.
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Still, it's going to take a lot more than that to stop Villanelle, whose flight -- in her wounded state dominates the early episodes -- while Eve tries to sort out just exactly who she can trust, in a world that's more dangerous than the office-bound life to which she had been accustomed.
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There's a strong argument for why it's important that a show like Killing Eve, which has already made a lot of headway on these issues, should more explicitly invest in queerness by allowing Eve to clarify her feelings, and figure out what she really wants from Villanelle after pursuing her for a whole season.
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But, duty calls, and Villanelle — or, Billie — finds herself smack in the middle of an AA meeting for which she didn't read any of the materials Eve prepared, which leads to her getting called out for being disingenuous (it doesn't help that she stole Eve's personal troubles almost word-for-word, which does not go over well).
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But she can't escape all aspects of corporate life: the team must sit through a bumbling presentation about psychopaths that Eve considers a waste of time, especially because she's able to contradict some of the statements, especially about how to control a psychopath, which is something she's about to attempt by introducing Villanelle and the Ghost.
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It's reexamination of the very structure of a detective show, paired with a fantastic performance by Sandra Oh and seemingly endless twists and turns, made it truly one of the best things on TV in 2018 Oh plays MI5 desk jockey Eve Polastri, who is promoted to detective and tasked with hunting down a skilled assassin named Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
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It's all about 🧡👉 Phoebe Waller-Bridge 👈🧡 We've only gone and devoted an ENTIRE EPISODE of Woman's Hour to the award-winning writer and creator of Fleabag ☝️🙌 ✨ Phoebe joins Jenni Murray for an in-depth interview to talk all things Fleabag: from religion and sexual fluidity to the relationship between feminism and "bigger tits" 🍈🍈 plus a mention or two of the 'Hot Priest' 💓 She also tells us about the appeal of Killing Eve's Villanelle and writing about women and violence🩸 what it was like on the set of the new Bond film and why it's Phoebe's friends who are the greatest love story of her life 💘💘.
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BEST VILLAIN Jodie Comer (Villanelle) – Killing Eve Joseph Fiennes (Commander Fred Waterford) – The Handmaid's Tale Josh Brolin (Thanos) – Avengers: Endgame Lupita Nyong'o (Red) – Us Penn Badgley (Joe Goldberg) – You BEST KISS Camila Mendes & Charles Melton (Veronica Lodge & Reggie Mantle) – Riverdale Jason Momoa & Amber Heard (Aquaman & Mera) – Aquaman Ncuti Gatwa & Connor Swindells (Eric Effiong & Adam Groff) – Sex Education Noah Centineo & Lana Condor (Peter Kavinsky & Lara Jean) – To All the Boys I've Loved Before Tom Hardy & Michelle Williams (Eddie Brock/Venom & Anne Weying) – Venom REALITY ROYALTY Jersey Shore: Family Vacation Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta The Bachelor The Challenge Vanderpump Rules BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE Awkwafina (Peik Lin Goh) – Crazy Rich Asians Dan Levy (David Rose) – Schitt's Creek John Mulaney (Andrew Glouberman) – Big Mouth Marsai Martin (Little Jordan Sanders) – Little Zachary Levi (Billy Batson/Shazam) – Shazam!
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