Killing Eve Season 4 Premiere Creates A Momentum Problem For The Show
Warning: SPOILERS for Killing Eve Season 4, Episode 1 — «Just Dunk Me»
Despite a heart-pounding opening sequence, the premiere episode of Killing Eve season 4 quickly flat lined, providing a momentum issue for the show. There are only seven episodes left to wrap up the story of Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle's (Jodie Comer) continuing tussle with the shadowy international organization The Twelve. At the end of last season, it hinted that the pair would finally form a partnership as they failed to walk away from each other on Tower Bridge. As season 4 begins, Eve is still investigating The Twelve, determined to bring them down, while Villanelle is still trying to atone for her many sins, quite literally. The audience is reintroduced to her in church, regaling the congregation with a choral rendition of Primal Scream's «Movin' On Up».
The most obvious changes to Killing Eve's remaining characters are that Konstantin (Kim Bodnia) is now an elected Russian official, and Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) has been fired from MI6. Eve has a new bloody single-mindedness, evidenced by her casual shooting of Konstantin's hand, but it's clear that she's internally horrified by how easy violence is coming to her. Deep down, this is the same Eve Polastri who was immediately horrified and apologetic when she stabbed Villanelle in the season 1 finale. This internal inertia is a problem for the remaining seven episodes.
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The developments in «Just Dunk Me» feel like gradual moves on a chessboard. Like Eve, viewers could be forgiven for wanting to "burn down the chessboard". Eve's investigation into the Twelve hasn't progressed much further than what she and MI6 knew way
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