Even Critics Hated the 'Killing Eve' Series Finale
‘Killing Eve’ Ends With a Total Betrayal of What Once Made It Great (SPOILERS) https://t.co/iBc7XkZURz
- Variety (@Variety) April 11, 2022
• The ending goes in such a completely typical direction that it’s almost more jarring for it. The reviewer found the final minute of the series so abrupt, so hackneyed, so amazingly unoriginal that they thought it was a trick and ends up being a slap in the face. "Pulling off such a move, however, requires some serious finesse that this blunt force trauma of an ending just doesn’t have."
• Killing Eve was at its best when 'peeling back a layer no one even realized was there to reveal something more knotted and fascinating therein. It delighted in the erotic and macabre, unearthing jokes in the most unexpected places. It explored female desire in its rawest, most dangerous forms without dismissing it. It drew such sharp portraits of women yearning for more - for life, for death, for every wonderful and terrible moment in between - that they drew blood.'
• The show gives its once vibrant characters a dull sendoff. When it was good, Killing Eve was smart, sexy, and truly shocking but its tedious ending and disappointing conclusion achieves none of that.
#KillingEve series finale recap: it belongs almost entirely to Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, and so it never lacks for panache - writes @amandamwhiting https://t.co/NbGLepBjHP
- Vulture (@vulture) April 11, 2022
• Probably the most positive, gives the final 4/5 stars.
• "Season four of Killing Eve has not been perfect, but tonight’s finale was true to the show’s earliest form: It doesn’t make perfect sense, but it belongs almost entirely to Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, and so it never lacks for panache."
• While the show took too long to get to the VillanEve coupling, the show ended the only way it could.
The writers failed @KillingEve , but Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh did not. My (finale) spoiler-filled assessment of the series, in @SFC_Datebook. Thanks for letting me write about my obsession, @jabastidas! #killingeve https://t.co/hp2rgANDfC
- Carla Meyer (@CarlaMeyerSB) April 11, 2022
• "Was it better to see Eve and Villanelle show their love only briefly than to never have seen it at all? Absolutely. But the ridiculous delay of this crucial plot point until the series finale highlights the creative timidity of the past two seasons. It tarnished the legacy of “Killing Eve,” a onetime critical and awards darling."
• The show’s violent final scene of Villanelle dying and Eve shrieking in grief was uncharacteristically badly staged.
• While the end was a mess, Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer were great.
‘Killing Eve’ Review: The Frustrating Series Finale Isn’t Much of an Ending at All - Spoilers https://t.co/Xaqjz6l5vn pic.twitter.com/OYhXZhjRnP
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) April 11, 2022
• While a tragic ending may have been inevitable, the finale made it seem forced and obligatory without earning it.
• There is no reason for anything in the finale, especially for Eve. She survives, except there’s no clarity that stems from her distress, nor any personal agency in her final moments.
• "In trying to recreate an ending that already worked, “Killing Eve” lost what made it special. The mixed emotions driving Eve and Villanelle’s first finale were purposeful; they were intrinsic to a love built around death, and specific to two people still learning what they wanted from one another. Season 4’s finale is filled with loose ends, hurried changes, and empty goodbyes."
Yep, #KillingEve really did just end in the worst possible wayhttps://t.co/WNFjC5JtUo pic.twitter.com/8ozHxBw5qV
- Digital Spy (@digitalspy) April 11, 2022
• Like many reviews, agrees that waiting to hook VillanEve up in the final episode is measly scraps when you take in the whole story at large.
• The finale feeds into all of the show's biggest criticisms, only to amplify them tenfold.
• "No, the problem is that given this show's queasy history with LGBTQ+ representation, immortalised by the many queer-baiting think pieces that have been written about Killing Eve since day one, you'd think the writers would try to avoid the biggest, perhaps most problematic queer trope of all...by ripping Villaneve apart like this, queer fans in particular are left with an ending that's crushing and absurd in equal measure."
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