‘Killing Eve’ shows the best way to ruin a great show: keep making it
When the critical response and ratings for each season of the BBC program have been worse than the last, there’s a strong argument to be made that “less is more”.
Killing Eve had an amazing ending. After two seasons in which Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) has allowed her obsession with the assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) to consume her life and destroy her marriage, she finally walks away; Villanelle, being a psychopath who’s not great with rejection, shoots her.
Just as we know, from Shakespeare’s prologue, that Romeo and Juliet will die, we should have known that Eve’s obsession would get her killed from the very title of the series, the ending hiding in plain sight all along. It was perfect.
