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This piece contains spoilers about episode one ofKilling Eveseason three.
or was thrown off the roof by some unseen assailant.
There is really only one way to react to this news: Oh my God, they killed Kenny!
But seriously, though: Oh my God, they killed Kenny.
Major characters usually dont die in the first episodes of new seasons.
To be fair,Killing Evehas always loved a good shock.
Unsettling the audience has always been inKilling Eves DNA.
All of those qualities are what distinguished it from other shows, in the genre and in general.
And those qualities sprang from series creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who also acted as lead wrier in season one.
Though shes still an executive producer, Waller-Bridge has passed that baton to a different woman each season.
In season three, its Suzanne Heathcote, a British playwright who previously worked onFear the Walking Dead.
Its wonderful that different women are getting this opportunity and being encouraged to pursue their own visions.
The humorous asides echoed those in season one.
Naturally, there was a razor blade embedded in it.
This was all veryKilling Eve.
In season three, Villanelle remains sly and unhinged, but her murders are less inventive.
The cleverness in her crimes has been sapped and refilled with, mostly, hardness and pure rage.
That may be an intentional choice, a way to illustrate how lost and desperate Villanelle has become.
But it also makesKilling Evemuch less interesting.
It also works at cross-purposes with a simultaneous effort to find the humanity in Villanelle.
Future episodes also build upon seeds planted in the premiere regarding Villanelles desire to reconnect with her family.
Once these two felt a charge from just the whisper of each others presence.
To the shows credit in season one, it didnt answer those questions.
Villanelle is still making her presence known to Eve.
She leaves her gifts and, at least once, confronts her in a more direct manner.
But now, understandably, Eve is afraid of her.
It also doesnt help matters that Oh and Comer get very little screen time together.
Theres nobody quite like Waller-Bridge, and thats precisely what makes her such a fantastic storyteller.
But I wish it could still astonish.
