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So far Killing Eve’s third season remains engrossing, surprising, and strangely funny (like when Villanelle gets an incurable case of hiccups over the prospect of seeing her family again). It’s also casually brutal, something that continues to give the series its edge. Still, there is something fresh about this new exploration of what has become an old dynamic, and the episodes get better and deeper as the season progresses.
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Killing Eve Season 3 is deeper, darker, and bigger in its scope than ever before.
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Just when your guard is down and the superficial glibness of the show can feel just a little too shallow, “Killing Eve” sticks an emotionally lacerating knife in your side, winding you in disbelief.
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It takes three episodes of an uneven but sporadically shocking third season for them [Eve and Villanelle} to cross paths again, but it's worth the wait. [27 Apr - 10 May 2020, p. 11]
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If Heathcote channels season one's strengths, she's also hampered by the storytelling traps the show set for itself from its earliest days on. ... With Oh and Shaw stranded in Glumville, Comer takes center stage. Even though many of her plots are retreads from season one, there's enough new energy to carry her storylines through.
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It’s still entertaining, often wildly so, and the performances alone are enough to guarantee that much week after week. But scattered amongst those great moments are some that feel like passable if pale imitations of what was.
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“Killing Eve” is a hybrid — a serialized procedural — and Season 3 tests how comfortable fans will be with a regimented structure. It’s perfectly fine entertainment, supported by two excellent performances. But if the series wants its edge back, it will have to go in for the kill.
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The writers use a contrivance viewers will see coming miles away to pull I’m-done-with-all-this Eve back into the game. It’s an eye-roll-worthy plot turn. The acting remains impeccable, the costumes amaze, the locations offer beauty shots galore. Maybe for some viewers that’s enough. But it’s tough to get past the unbelievable relationship at the show’s core.
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The script was decent, but the storyline seemed scattered.
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After a brilliant first season, Killing Eve lost some of its mojo in the second, and seems more listless in the third. Built around a game of cat and mouse between an office-bound MI6 investigator and a mercurial assassin, it continues to offer darkly amusing moments thanks to its splendid cast, but at this point, the main thing the show seems to be killing is time.
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Like the second series, it is still a high-quality, high-wire act, but it cannot quite match the verve and wit of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s original episodes. A further burden now – and one shouldered by any subsequent series after one based on a cat-and-mouse premise – is that the artifice is showing.
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[Killing Eve now feels like] a copy of its former self. The edges are now duller, the lines less distinct. If there was ever a show that would have benefited from being a limited series, it is Killing Eve.
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“Killing Eve” isn’t a bad show now, but it’s a different show, in depressing ways — less vital, more ordinary. It is still shocking here and there but largely devoid of surprise. A mordant and sexy comic thriller edged with terror has become a competent psychodrama bordered with sentimentality. The air has gone out of it.
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The show is committed to fascinating female characters—and it’s particularly rewarding to watch Oh perform her character’s deep grief and despair, lending surprising dignity to her disheveled sweatpants and plastic bags. But something about the humor skews horribly wrong. Villanelle has become so murderous that it's difficult to enjoy her humor. ... Killing Eve feels safe.
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Season 3 extends the thinning plot and has trouble finding its mojo in the first four episodes reviewed here. ... It takes it quite a few episodes to get off the floor, into the shower, and back in the fold — and no matter how good Oh and Comer still are (and they are), it feels like a slog
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Once fresh and thrilling, Killing Eve has grown stale and predictable. It’s 2020, and phones still click and whoop when texts are sent. The humour is weary.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 35 out of 53
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Mixed: 9 out of 53
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Negative: 9 out of 53
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Jun 9, 2020This is one of the worst destructions of a tv show ever, whoever has taken over didn’t watch the show and butchers it
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Dec 19, 2021
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Jun 15, 2021This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.