Villanelle books5/22/2023 “A truly subversive storyline would have defied the trope which sees same-sex lovers in TV dramas permitted only the most fleeting of relationships before one of them is killed off (Lexa’s death in The 100, immediately after sleeping with her female love interest for the first time, is another example). A punishing of Villanelle and Eve for the bloody, erotically impelled chaos they have caused,” Jennings wrote. “But the season four ending was a bowing to convention. It was an exhausting and deeply tropey “bury your guys” moment for fans of the show-a cliché and problematic convention brought back to end a show that started fantastic, but quickly fumbled its own success. She and Eve leap into the water, but Villanelle is unable to make it as Eve reaches out for her bloody form in the water. In the final episode of Killing Eve, hours after their first real mutual kiss, and during a warm embrace, Villanelle is gunned down and murdered on top of a bridge. “And on the page, if not on the screen, she will be back. But to those fans, I would say this: Villanelle lives,” Jennings wrote. “I learned the outcome of the final episode in advance, and suspected, rightly, that fans would be upset. He wrote a piece for The Guardian comforting fans, especially queer ones, who were emotionally devastated at Villanelle (Jodie Comer) being killed off after four seasons of teasing romance between her and Sandra Oh’s Eve. Luke Jennings is the author of the Villanelle books that provided the basis for the television series.
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