But that's okay, because we don't want Eve (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) to move on.
Four seasons of chasing each other around Europe, Eve and Villanelle have traveled to some deeply emotional climax - they hate each other, get used to each other, help each other out. do, and of course, almost kill each other over and over again. That's a lot for any two people to endure, and the show tries not to suggest that the relative calm of their last conversation on the bridge in Season 3 may have resolved any of their conflicts. Instead, where they begin Season 4, they've treated them like one-on-ones who can't let go of each other.
Of the two, Eve has made more progress. She's energetic, having a fun romance, and as hot as ever on the road to twelve. She has learned absolutely nothing about risk-taking, as shown by her unarmed, let alone chase that she believes is being recruited as an assassin, and is fortunate enough to have managed the scene. terminates but does not die.
The killer may not achieve her dreams, however, given that she both fails to stop Eve and immediately discovers that she is dating Helen, one of the Twelve French-looking forces. is the player Eve is following.
This is in stark contrast to Villanelle, who is still in the behind-the-scenes phase of her breakup. She wanders fearlessly into a church, having an affair with another beautiful young woman, and utterly failing to convince the priest that she is serious in her attempts to be baptized. It's an exercise in the contrasts between them - Villanelle may be looking for the good, but she can never fool everyone into believing she's a normal person. Whereas Eve, for all her affinity for the dark side of humanity, is perfectly capable of mingling with the ordinary world, forming new relationships, and experiencing the joys and disappointments of an ambitious career. The parallel stories serve as an important reminder that no matter how tempted Eve may be by the dark side, or some uncanny obsession with Villanelle, she is still capable of being human beneath it all, whereas Villanelle's Something has always been wrong with him.
The episode gets a little too heavy at this angle regarding Villanelle. She spends a significant number of her scenes in the episode framed by angel wings, and while on some level it's part of staging her own redemption arc, it's so heavy that the episode gets tedious. Likewise, the random cat murder in the episode seems like a shock to the worth, rather than a sign of his darker nature, as May's attack seems to be later. There's a certain humor to her hopeless hopes when Eve doesn't show up for her full pretense of baptism, though: the one thing Eve has never been on the show is an attentive or devoted companion, especially when she's looking for something. New passion. This is one of his most consistent features.
Meanwhile, Caroline remains as determined as Eve to be about what's going on, but the constant withholding of information from Eve means the two aren't really working together. Instead, they sometimes seem to intersect paths toward the same destination, though a Caroline is about to get through detective shenanigans, versus being punched down an underpass like Eve.
The show has always worked best as an exploration of the dynamic between Eve and Villanelle, but as the seasons have gone on, that relationship has often been replaced by other, more ambitious storytelling. It seems, for now, that the big focus of the final season is on taking the Twelve down, which is somewhat unfortunate — the Faceless Power Brokers doesn't have the visceral appeal of the two who are constantly trying to get better. . each other. After a pandemic-long absence, let's hope they still engage in some good fights before the show gets better.