Killing Eve: Why Eve Hates Villanelle In Season 4 (Despite Season 3’s Ending)
Warning: SPOILERS for Killing Eve Season 4, Episode 1 — «Just Dunk Me»
When Killing Eve season 4 begins, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) has an unusual amount of anger and even hatred towards Villanelle (Jodie Comer), which seems to be at odds with how the would-be lovers ended Killing Eve season 3. Picking up months later, Killing Eve season 4 finds Eve working for a private security firm and no longer part of the British intelligence services. Meanwhile, Villanelle's personal crisis continues, and, posing as an orphan named Nelle Petrova, the Russian ex-assassin has ingratiated herself into a church community in London and wants to be baptized.
Villanelle and Eve's relationship is the twisted heart of Killing Eve, even though the two women have spent far more time apart (and obsessed with each other) than together. Both Eve and Villanelle have transformed throughout Killing Eve; Villanelle, the finest assassin of The Twelve, began to question herself and her purpose, which led her to quit her life as a hired killer. Eve's infatuation with Villanelle led to her abandoning her marriage and her previous life, plunging her into perpetual uncertainty. But at the end of Killing Eve season 3's finale, Eve and Villanelle came to an understanding that they would «consume» each other if they tried to be together. They decided to walk away from each other although Eve and Villanelle both looked back.
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Killing Eve season 3's closure makes Eve's hostility to Villanelle in the season 4 premiere surprising. But it also makes sense from Eve's point of view because Villanelle has continually broken their pact to stay away from each other. The Russian psychopath obviously kept tabs
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