Hannibal Paved The Way For Killing Eve's Fatal Romance
The relationship between Hannibal and Will from NBC’s Hannibal paved the way for Eve and Villanelle’s romantic cat-and-mouse dynamic in Killing Eve. Both series focus heavily on dark topics of murder, moral corruption, and the ins and outs of crime-solving. Amid a proverbial battle between good and evil, both shows also explore the overarching intimacy between the two couples.
While hunting down a powerful assassin’s network called the Twelve, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) attempts to suppress her romantic feelings toward Villanelle (Jodie Comer), an assassin she was originally hired to identify. Throughout Killing Eve, Eve is proven to be tempted by Villanelle’s dark nature and seductive confidence. The push-and-pull of dark and light sensibilities working against one another while incidentally enticing is just as notable in Hannibal where Special Agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) questions if he should be catching Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) or running away with him. In the series finale of Hannibal, following three seasons of their own cat-and-mouse game, Will comes to accept his own killer instincts after murdering the Great Red Dragon alongside Hannibal in a twisted and sensually elevated display of violence. The final season of Killing Eve draws closer to a culmination of the sexual tension and romantic feelings developed gradually throughout Villanelle and Eve’s equally destructive journey.
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Pertaining to the relationship between Eve and Villanelle, Killing Eve puts into play various elements from Hannibal which makes that series starkly original and expands upon them. A theme shared between the shows reflects on the consequence
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