Killing Eve
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Despite taking a seemingly fatal bullet to the chest last season, Villanelles former handler Konstantin is back.
She gets into your brain.
She eats you up to make space for herself.
Shes always preferred to be a hammer rather than a scalpel, in both professional and symbolic terms.
Her relationship to Eve has always orbited ideas of temptation, transgression, obsession, sex, even love.
Theres another less romantic framework for the self-centered, obsessive way Eve behaves toward Villanelle: addiction.
Im not doing this for myself, Kenny, she rationalizes.
The mind is endlessly innovative in justifying its bullshit through whatever contortions and lies are necessary.
Youre getting off on sniffing out a psycho.
But none of what they say matters, because none of them matter anymore not really.
As Konstantin says, You still have something worth having but now its barely hanging by a thread.
This is love as Villanelle understands it, as she is teaching Eve to understand it.
She thinks she loves you, Konstantin tells Eve.
Then make her hate you … Look what happens to the people she loves.
Shell love you to death.
Later, at home, Eve takes the lipstick out of her purse and slowly applies it.
She is both the apple and the mouth.
This is love as Villanelle understands it, as she is teaching Eve to understand it.
Eve rubs the wound with her finger, like shes tracing a heart carved into her skin.
She wants to consume what Villanelle is, what Villanelle offers as much as she wants to be consumed.
The very, very hungry caterpillar became a butterfly in the end, after all.
And Eve is so very, very hungry.
