#big ass mood
Good idea: going hiking with your friends
Bad idea: drinking two waterbottles beforehand and forgetting forests don’t have bathrooms
i don’t actually know how to draw i’m just artist-passing
Season Four Was Doomed.
It was done and over as soon as “Just Dunk Me” and “Don’t Get Eaten” faded out and tossed into the garbage like so much spoiled fish. When they ended so did any hopes the show would pull out of the death spiral Laura Neal and her writers put it into.
The first two episodes were big flashing red lights of impending suck. I didn’t recognize the characters. I mean, I knew it was Sandra and Jodie and Fiona, but I didn’t recognize who the hell they were supposed to BE. Nobody was acting the way their characters had acted for the past three seasons.
The first two episodes were the worst of Killing Eve’s entire run. I’d like to delete both of them and get a do-over. How in the hell does any writer just drop the audience into a story seven months from where the previous season ended and later say, “I like not knowing what happened” the way Laura Neal did.
Laura Neal, you are the head writer of the show! If YOU don’t know what happened between Eve and Villanelle WHO THE FUCK DOES?
Start off wrong and it is tough to get right. The season didn’t find its legs until the fifth or sixth episode or so, but by then it was far too little, way too late.
The way Neal refused to provide any explanation of what happened between Eve and Villanelle between where we left them on the bridge and all this ugliness from Eve toward Villanelle months later is inexplicable. It’s like a master class in what not to do with an audience that has been waiting nearly two years to find out what comes next.
Neal seemed both oblivious as to following up on and filling in the blanks for an episode she co-wrote to end Season 3 and contemptuous of the audience’s need–not want–to know.
Neal figured she’d put Eve on a Ducati and forget that we’ve never seen her on a motorcycle, give her a big-ass gun, and let her drive into Russia to hunt down Konstantin. Plunk Villanelle down in a church somewhere and make her so desperate for “redemption” that she is going to start having hallucinations that she sees herself as Jesus. Oh, and if triggering the Catholics isn’t enough, let’s have Villanelle kill a cat and piss off the PETA crowd too!
I don’t know what sort of heavy-duty drugs you have to be on to think any of that b.s. was brilliant, but I would love to have been around Sandra and Jodie when they got their scripts. They have to had called each other up and said, “Can youbelievethis shit?”
