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@LaikaSpaceDog
film editor • ✂️ work: vimeo.com/768107556 • gal pals with
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New York, NYJoined June 2009
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Spoilers #KillingEve . . Just gotta say, the argument isn’t that it’s “never” ok to kill a queer character. What’s played out and tired as hell is withholding love from two queer women, then letting them experience it for all of 5 seconds before immediately killing one. TIIIIRED.
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So. #KillingEve finale SPOILERS . . There were breathtaking, swoon-worthy moments. Oh but that ending. I HAAATE it. I didn’t expect happy but this was cruel. Eve and Villanelle - and the audience - deserved better. 💔 My thoughts on how KE broke the essence of their own show:
Part 1 I've been sitting with the final scene of Killing Eve for a couple of weeks now. To be blunt: I hate it. Tragedy itself doesn't equal good storytelling, and sad endings can still have heart. This was brutal, unoriginal, and a crushingly disappointing conclusion for both Eve and Villanelle. Sure, yes, death was foreshadowed heavily all season long. Eve was warned many times to stop going down this path. She didn't and lost everything. By killing Villanelle, they “killed" the last thing remaining that made Eve, Eve. But in doing so, Killing Eve ends up breaking its own narrative paradigm. For almost four full seasons, they encouraged us to view things outside of binary boundaries. Good/evil, gay/straight, enemies/lovers. This story was always about the messiness that exists in the spaces between. It was so rare to have a TV show about women, especially queer women, that reveled in that messiness, that allowed for dark, violent, funny, complicated relationships.
Part 2 KE asked us to love these 2 complex women, to honor their darkness & light, to see humanity in them no matter what. Then in the very last seconds we get shoved into a black & white box & feel judged for celebrating their complexities in the first place. If Eve's major arc was about embracing her true self, to be wide awake, this end seems to imply that Eve earned her soul-shattering torment. Why? She didn't stick to her shitty boring marriage & her unfulfilling life? Because she allowed herself to finally love V? It's as if Eve is being scolded. Look what happens when you don't stay in the confines of a heteronormative world. Which is all the more baffling knowing there were queer people in the writers room. I find it hard to swallow that we're suddenly meant to fret over the morality of these characters, to believe that they deserved their miserable end. Of course Eve and V aren't good people. Since when does KE care about good? It’s a betrayal of the audience & characters.
Part 3 What to make of the metamorphosis & holy symbolism that surrounded V? Here’s the best I got: V shoves Eve into the water, saving her (baptism get it?) and Eve is reborn as a new person when she reemerges. But Eve was already a new person. For most of 408, it's the most at-ease we've seen her; past self & new self finally merged. What is Eve being reborn as? Is there even a person left? For V, does this complete her redemption arc? There’s no grand sacrifice, no act of selflessness. Does this pay off her relationship with Eve & the ways that changed the essence of who she is? Are we meant to think love was the death of V? How grim. While it’s beautiful to watch them interact, stop playing games & be fully themselves, I can’t understand the logic of going from those moments to this ending. From Eve’s speech, ”The beauty in your relationship will be found in the ways you reunite,” to V dead in the water & Eve alone. They abruptly slapped a horror film ending onto a love story.
Part 4 Perhaps if they came together earlier, not minutes before their demise, the final scene wouldn't feel so insulting. Death is not automatically problematic but by not reconciling until the end, KE leans into lesbian death trope bullshit. Queer women experience happiness then suffer horrific fates, punished for a moment of joy. A lot of V’s story was how she never experienced being loved & loving in return. She finally does only to get Clexa-ed. "People like us aren't made for happy lives with happy endings" might be the slogan for 90% of shows with a wlw romance. With all the misery we experience daily, would them setting off on an unknown future have been so terrible? Allow the audience a chance to imagine something for them. E & V were two halves of a whole. The sleeping bag scene made that explicit, their faces mirroring each other. At least let them sink down together if they had to die. Eve says to Martin "And unbelievably I survived. For what?" We are left with no answer.
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Dear Killing Eve friends. On the eve (sorry) of the series finale, let’s thank Sandra and Jodie for giving their all for four seasons and gifting us with these two beautiful and dynamic characters. Eve and Villanelle will always be special to me.
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Spoilers #KillingEve . . . . The showrunner says Eve apparently wants “normal” and needed to lose Villanelle to have that. Same showrunner shows Eve and Villanelle being a domestic old married couple after spending one (1) day together. 🤔
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Imagine being mere minutes away from having an iconic final episode and then at the last second being like “lol, no thanks!”
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It's nearly time for me to stop tweeting about #KillingEve on the main tl (thank god). But one more big brain thought... Putting aside the "bury your gays" conversation for a moment, here's why the showrunner's interpretation of the ending is so upsetting to me personally:
For almost 4 full seasons Killing Eve was a show that enthusiastically embraced women who carry a darkness inside of themselves. Eve & Villanelle were lovable WITH their darkness, not in spite of it. This made me feel seen in a way no other show had before. Whatever darkness it is that many of us carry (of course I mean this symbolically; I assume most of us aren’t going around assassinating folks) we are still worthy of loving & being loved. Our desires don’t make us intrinsically good or evil. There is a place for us in the world, even if it’s “not conventional” as Eve put it in S1. To abruptly reverse course in the last 2 minutes of the show & then tell the audience after the fact "actually you should be celebrating V’s death because Eve just wants a normal life & is now free" – as if she’s been saved from queer corruption, or that Eve embracing her desires was just a little detour on the way back to playing bridge with her hubby – is such a deep, deep betrayal. That shit hurts.
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Here is the one and only spoiler-y thing I'll say about Killing Eve 4x08. Our girls act like complete idiots for a lot of the episode, and I say that in the most affectionate way possible. I love them.
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Some showrunners/writers need to understand... Once your work is out in the world, you cannot control how it is interpreted. And unfortunately, if quite literally almost no one sees it how you intended – that's on you, not us.
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One big missed opportunity from Killing Eve... Why did they never do a bottle episode with just the two of them? Like, Eve and Villanelle stuck someplace together for one episode. Their dynamics were complicated enough to sustain it. I guess I'll be forever mad. 😒
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Sitting here incredulous about LN thinking that at the end of KE, Villanelle is nothing more than a psychopath and killer, and Eve is "just a woman who likes an inappropriately-timed croissant on a hungover Sunday morning." Guess the entire series was a collective hallucination!
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#KillingEve major 4x04 spoiler… . . I see some people mad about the Helene/Eve kiss. But the whole scene is ALL about Eve’s desire for Villanelle. Listen to what she says. Pay attention to how the scene is edited; where they intercut between Eve’s and V’s faces; the music cues.
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4x07 Killing Eve spoiler This episode had some strong moments (in particular Sandra Oh doing her thing) but also wasted a lot of time, which is a problem for the season as a whole. Enjoyable AND frustrating. Keeping Villaneve apart until the last episode is honestly ridiculous.
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Spoiler #KillingEve finale . . me one episode ago: wow, KE gave us so many queer women in S4! fun! me now: every queer woman suffered a vicious fate (May, Fernanda, Helene, Gunn, Villanelle, Eve) and only the straight ones (Pam and Carolyn) made it out okay. 🥴🥴🥴
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I’m going to be an absolute arsehole and say another thing about Killing Eve (sorry, baby). Forget a traditional happy ending. Whatever happened, whatever their fate, it was supposed to be them together. IT WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SHOW. God dammit.
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Spoiler #KillingEve finale . . Oh, and I’m not done! Here’s some more plot nonsense to ponder. They were more interested in making Carolyn the big bad than giving some of the best characters in TV history emotionally satisfying & logical endings. They can keep their gd spinoff.
KE plot nonsense 1. The 12 was so underdeveloped, the climax was V killing nameless faceless nobodies with barely any effort. She walked into the room without weapons! We saw no scheming or planning between her & Eve! The writers didn't allow Eve to contribute anything beyond getting V to the location. 2. A big plot for Hélène was to track down members of The 12 and torture them for info. Why did she receive an invite to a leadership meeting? She didn't know who Lars was but she's getting digital postcards to hang out with the heads of the organization. Have I missed something? Are we meant to think she was getting the call up to replace Lars? I shouldn't need my own conspiracy board to understand. 3. After everything, Carolyn's endgame was have V assassinated to get back into MI6. With a nice side bonus of destroying Eve. Of all the bullshit this is the winner. Garbage. To think this was the plot-logic they used to kill off one of the most beloved characters in TV history. Cool.
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I keep seeing rumors about some supposed Killing Eve spinoff but like.......... does literally anyone on the planet earth care about that universe without Eve and Villanelle being the main characters? Who?!
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I hate that when the Killing Eve folks talk about the ending, it’s always that they discussed either Eve dying, or Villanelle, or both… but NEVER that they could both survive. It’s so hurtful, somehow.
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Hi it’s me again, still big mad! Killing Eve writers clearly cared more about Konstantin’s sendoff than Villanelle’s. He got a love confession, Pam cared for his body, multiple characters mourned his death. V got bang-bang-dead bye. But she’s a dangerous queer sooooo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ t.co/e5ynWlkaXX
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Long COVID isn’t a joke. It isn’t “anxiety.” And every doctor needs to take it seriously, immediately. (The amount of doctors who were dismissive about my wife’s long COVID symptoms was alarming, to say the least.)
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Eve leaving this note in place of V's passport/cash in season 1 doesn't get the respect it deserves.
sorry baby
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#KillingEve 4x05 spoilers… . . This ep isn’t as strong as 4 and 6 but it’s not BAD. Sandra Oh’s performance at the end, particularly when she’s trapped in the car with Helene, is one of her finest moments of the series imo. That scene being spoiled lessened the impact surely. 😒
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Can we talk about how LN says Eve is a “normal” gal when she also has Eve: gouge Gunn’s eyes out, hop on a boat to abandon the now-eyeless Gunn alone on an island (giving her a 🖕 while sailing away) and never think or gaf about it ever again. Normal. 😂
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Best description of the final scene yet: “Villanelle was brutally murdered at a gay wedding so the straight side-character could get her job back.”
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Whenever I think I’m overreacting to Killing Eve I remember that Villanelle was brutally murdered at a gay wedding so the straight side-character could get her job back. Eve left screaming in suicidal despair. Bonus Christian imagery. Conventionality and homophobia prevail.
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Uh, somehow I missed Laura Neal saying "we really wanted a sense of [Eve] washing off everything that had happened the past four seasons." What an interesting exploration of how much rage I can feel about a single topic. 🤔
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SPOILER ALERT: Lots of upset Killing Eve fans are marking the end of the show in a unique way and calling for better treatment of queer characters on television. Does Killing Eve fall into the 'bury your gays' trope? Let's take a look #killingeve
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100 days since the Killing Eve writers were like "in these awful times of cultural recession where queer people are being treated like it's the 1980s again, let's slaughter one of our queer leads and have the other one left alone, screaming in agony. 😀"
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Sandra and Jodie should both have the Emmys play the piss scene as their little nominee clip during the broadcast. Can you imagine.
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On Tuesday, Dec 1st
@theheatherhogan
and I did the most 2020 thing possible and got zoom-married! It was lowkey and wonderful and after nearly 10 years together, I am so excited to finally and officially be wives.
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I’m sooorrrrrrrrrrrryyy but I’m still thinking about how Killing Eve had Gunn offer Villanelle fucking WORMS to eat, then immediately showed them making out with each other. WORMS.
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