The title character of “Killing Eve” isn’t dead yet, but she’s lost a little life — as has BBC America’s dark espionage comedy which returns Sunday for a third season, writes television critic LorraineAli
From slapstick comedy to snooty stoicism, British television is a soothing escape from troubled times. Plus all those great accents.
Season 3 extends the thinning plot and has trouble finding its mojo in the first four episodes reviewed here. It doesn’t help that the show kicks off in the deflated world of its namesake character, who is all but destroyed by her last run-in with Villanelle. It takes it quite a few episodes to get off the floor, into the shower, and back in the fold — and no matter how good Oh and Comer still are , it feels like a slog.
Eve’s left M16 and is now working in the cramped back kitchen of a London dumpling restaurant. With husband Niko hospitalized for PTSD after his traumatic exposure to the spy world, Eve’s living alone in a dingy flat, in sweatpants, surrounded by junk food and a recurring fear/lust for Villanelle. The dead-eyed, stylish assassin shot Eve and left her for dead last season, but not before manipulating the agent into axe-murdering a man, proving the two women aren’t so different after all.Villanelle is also semi-retired, but in a gorgeous Spanish villa with a wealthy partner. She’s trying to fit into normal civilian life when Dasha , a former mentor from her Russian past, shows up.
What was Villanelle like as a child? How about her parents? Filling in some of those blanks is former handler Konstantin , who’s back in the picture at his own peril. The chemistry between the odd couple holds more interest, at least initially, than any other relationship here.
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