‘Killing Eve’ finale review: With a complete betrayal of what made it great in the first place

It’s difficult to call the “Killing Eve” finale a letdown since, given the show’s downward track since its buzzy first season, expectations have been systematically lowered. However, considering the anticipated clash and ultimate fates of major characters in this less-than-killer conclusion, “anticlimactic” fits the label.

Season 4 began on an especially clumsy note, with a detour involving Villanelle (Jodie Comer), a professional assassin, and her time-killing brush with religion. After then, things improved a little, but the show never fully recovered.

Helene (Camille Cottin) and Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) both dead in the build-up to the finale, the latter in a characteristically futile and tragic fashion, but the thought that the two characters would be reunited and square off with the enigmatic group known as The Twelve loomed large.

Eve (Sandra Oh) did find Villanelle, and the two started on their revenge mission, which took place at a wedding aboard a ship, evoking the show’s dark and comical tone.

Nonetheless, Villanelle’s horrific meeting (after her welcome of her victims with “Hello, losers”) was staged as part of a hazily shot musical piece, giving little indication of what was being done to whom.

Nonetheless, Villanelle’s gruesome rendezvous (followed by her greeting her victims with “Hello, losers”) was staged as part of a hazily shot musical piece, with little indication of what was being done to whom. “ultimately, it’s a love story, and it’s a story about discovering who you really are.”

Then, just as Eve and a wounded Villanelle were celebrating their victory, an anonymous shot rang out, sending Eve and a wounded Villanelle into the ocean, where further random shots killed the latter. (In retrospect, it’s a shame she had to recover from being shot in the back with an arrow in an earlier episode only to be killed off like that.)

Eve, on the other hand, sprang to the surface, yet it was difficult not to wonder, “Well, now what?” We’ll never know (or, at the very least, hopefully never), for the enormous bold letters “THE END” rolled across the screen to clear up any confusion.

Under the creative direction of “Fleabag’s” Phoebe Waller-Bridge, “Killing Eve” started off fantastically well, winning Emmy nominations for both stars and a win for Comer in 2019, hooking audiences into its strange blend of brutal violence and odd humour.

As Eve pointed out, at the end, the titular character was no longer the restrained, office-bound MI6 employee she had been when the book began, alluding to her varied excursions and remarking, “Unbelievably, I survived,” adding, “For what?”

Despite the strength of the actors, seasons three and four failed to fully answer that last point. “Killing Eve” may have lasted, but it came to bore little resemblance to the distinguishing features that characterised the show when it first aired, as the finale demonstrated.

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