Review — Killing Eve S3E1 — Slowly Slowly Catchy Monkey

As much as I wanted to love it, I ultimately found the season three premiere lackluster.

Final Verdict: B-

SPOILER ALERT!

New Beginnings

S3E1 of Killing Eve focused on a strange new daily ritual of moving on, which frustratingly brought Villanelle and Eve’s character development more than a few steps back.

For Eve in particular, who was primed to become even more like Villanelle towards the end of season 2 when she single-handedly kills Raymond (Ok, it was more of a tag team effort), it seemed like the perfect setup for her to be the initiator this season.

With Villanelle (Jodie Comer) thinking she’s dead, Eve not only has the upper hand, but an emotional catalyst for her newfound sociopathic tendencies.

But instead she becomes nothing more than a dull shell of everything her character had built up to in last year’s finale. Same goes for V.

Both characters have spent an excessive amount of time wallowing in their feelings — losing themselves in the art of pretending so much that it seems too forced. Boring even.

Villanelle marries a woman. Eve works in a restaurant.