I really want to watch Killing Eve but I am not sure I am mentally able to do a Killing Eve recap worthy of the show. When I recap stupid Bravo shit, it irks me when people say, “YOU LEFT OUT THE BEST PART! Instead of just talking about whatever they want to talk about. So I am admitting in advance that I am probably going to leave out a lot of best parts. I shall leave it to you to help me out in comments. I wish I would have rewatched the previous seasons before now. But I’m going to give this my best shot. Also, I don’t have new photos for this. Or maybe I will. I don’t know. I’m having trouble thinking.
There are showing a bit of backstory and I am already happier than I’ve been all year. I may just watch this episode over and over until things get better. Or until the next one comes. Oh how I have miss good TV. I can’t stop rewinding.
Happily Ever After For Villanelle?
Alrighty then. It looks like we are going to start in Russia where a less than stellar gymnast randomly kills her boyfriend. PMS? Or something more sinister? Sometimes you just have to get your aggression out I guess.
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Wait What? Villanelle got married to a woman who is NOT Eve? What is going on here? Her wife’s name is Maria. Villanelle gives a very odd speech. Because, Villanelle. She talks about her past relationship and how she is so much happier now that she is dead. But is Eve dead? I think not. I mean sure the last time we saw her she was bleeding to death after Villanelle shot her in Rome. But as I told some kind soul who checked on me today, you are going to have to try harder than that to kill this old broad. Anyway, at the wedding reception, Villanelle goes off on an uninvited guest, Dasha, who I think is the grown up gymnast killer girl. And also one of Villanelle’s former handlers. Soon chaos breaks out and everyone is fighting on Villanelle’s “special day.”
The next thing we see is Villanelle and Dasha, both fairly bloodied up in the car meant for the newly married couple to depart in replete with streamers.
Wine & Noodles
Then we are off to London and the M16 headquarters to catch up with Carolyn Martens. She has a new boss she hates. She is in hot water with her boss for a variety of reasons.
And then we see Eve! Alive but not that well shopping in an Asian grocery store. I feel just like she looks. She is buying a ton of wine and cups of noodles. I’ve never had ramen noodles. I think I bought a pack to try at one point. It’s probably still in the pantry somewhere. No time like a pandemic to try new things I guess. Oh shit. The bag broke. Thank God the wine survived. She is in Korea town in New Malden, a suburb of London.
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Then, we are back in Barcelona with Dasha and Villanelle. Dasha’s mission is to get Villanelle back with the twelve as an assassin. But she wants a promotion. If Dasha can get her to come back, basically she gets to get out and go back to Russia. Villanelle wants to be a keeper. This would make her above Konstantin in the chain of command. They sort of try to strangle each other. Then they laugh. Because, of course.
Kenny Continues To Investigate The Twelve
Next I stop to scan my tag list to remember the name of the dorky kid. I think it is Kenny. During some banter with a colleague we learn he is meeting a friend tonight and has to miss trivia night. I’m guessing that would be Eve. On his computer he has photos of Frank Haleton aka the dickswab who fired Eve and Bill. He was the mole who was working undercover at MI5 and reporting to the twelve. Villanelle killed him via castration while he was wearing a dress. The other face on his computer was Fat Panda a Chinese hacker who according to the internet was also killed by Villanelle at a BDSM place in Berlin. What do these two dead bodies have in common? I dunno yet.
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Back to Eve. Apparently, she is a cook in a kitchen in Korea town. Her boss tries to convince her to wait tables and make more money. But she wants to hide in the kitchen. We see her drinking wine and watching TV in her apartment and the we cut to Konstantin! YAY. He’s shopping for touristy London refrigerator magnets? One of his many phones ring and he rejects a call from Irina. I am going to have to stop Googling who all these people are because my searches are staring to get spoilery. Then all his phones start ringing with unknown callers. This can’t be good.
Dasha is gymnastics coach in, I think Barcelona. For unknown reasons, it seems to be take an assassin to work day because Villanelle is there. When the students leave, the two talk about her promotion. Dasha says she is going to have more money and benefits but she is going to have to work her way up to keeper, slowly, slowly catchy monkey. In the meantime, she has a mark for her to kill. By the way, even the commercials are good on BBC.
Wine & Wontons
Back at work, Eve continues to make wontons and go grocery shopping and drink wine and watch TV. Other than the whole wonton thing, she is pretty much leading my monotonous life. Like lots of you, she is also running out of toilet paper. And for some reason she is texting or posting her nearly empty roll online. No idea what that is about. At the same time, Konstantin gets a note with his takeout food that says, “Time to go fishing.” Ah apparently, Eve drunk texted Kenny about the toilet paper and he tracked her phone and went to check on her. And proceeded to scare the shit out of her because she had passed out.
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The encounter with Eve and Kenny serves to give us a bit of news on how we got here. We learn as the two drink wine from coffee cups that tourists found Eve and got her to a hospital in Rome. Kenny tried to visit her but they would not let them. He no longer works for MI6 and is a journalist now. I thought Niko was dead. Apparently he is not, but not really with Eve either. Even though someone killed his mistress. She deserved it. MI6 is not investigating the twelve anymore. But Kenny seems to still be doing it on his own. When he tries to share things about activity in Frank and Fat Panda’s accounts, Eve shuts him down right away. She is not interested. He encourages her to come for drinks with his officemates soon.
A Seemingly Random Murder
Eve in in Girona, Spain working as a delivery person. Which means she is about to kill someone. That someone seems to be an innocent shopkeeper. However, she does put up a fight. Back in the first scene where a young Dasha kills her boyfriend, she poured a bag of chalk on his face. Villanelle pours a bag of red spice on the shopkeeper’s face. I guess Sasha did teach Villanelle everything she knows. And Villanelle is back.
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Kenny and his mom are moving into a new house. He seems to be standing up to his mother more.
Eve goes to visit Niko who is in some sort of assisted living? rehab? kind of place. Maybe he’s in the looney bin trying to cope with the death of his side piece.
They Killed Kenny!
Back in the kitchen, Eve is ripping the guts out of a chicken. In all of the kitchen scenes, two of the young male cooks have been talking about one of their love interests. She keeps giving him all of these excuses. Eve has enough and blows up on him telling him he is stupid and she is lying to him. She goes outside and calls Kenny and agrees to meet up for drinks.
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Kenny is going to die. I can feel it. He is looking into a lot of things no one wants him nosing around in. Please do not kill Kenny. He is the only nice person on the entire show! Eve shows up for drinks with Kenny. And he’s deader than door nails. Someone threw him off the roof. This will be the reason Eve gets back in the game. Well that is a shitty ending. Thoughts?
Kenny dying is not what we needed.
Carolyn will hopefully team up with Eve to avenge the shit out of him. Missed this show so much!!!! TT, if you haven’t yet I HIGHLY recommend bingeing Fleabag. She is what I imagine a British you would be-and who I wish I was!! 😂
Fleabag is great — loved it!
Wonder what Caroline thinks about some dickswab killing her son. Last season, when she told Eve Kenny knew everything, I didn’t believe her.
I’m saving up episodes so I can watch three at a time…maybe.
MY LAPTOP KEEPS CRASHING! IF I DISAPPEAR I AM NOT DEAD. JUST WITHOUT A LAPTOP!
So excited you recapped this! Your recommendation for this show was got me into this show in the first place. I’m tired of the Bravo shows and honestly I’m not that into this latest group of misfits of 90 Day Fiancé so I haven’t commented on those posts because I barely care, but this I still LOVE! So thank you for the recap!
I’m so sad Kenny died! I’m wondering if it was Constantine, because a) he’s in London and b) was told “time to go fishing”. This seems odd because Constantine and Carolyn are friends (?) and/or (were once?) lovers. Didn’t Constantine stay with her at one point where he makes breakfast and they joke about some threesome or something? So for him to kill Kenny (who always has lived with his Mom) seems so personal. So maybe it wasn’t him, but it seemed like when Eve looked up, maybe she recognized who she saw on the roof, from the look on her face. Because in previews we see Constantine tell Villanelle that Eve is alive so maybe that’s how he found out? It seems cruel if he did kill Kenny because of his history with Carolyn.
But then it would put both Carolyn and Eve in Mamma Bear mode and want to both avenge his death since they both were loving and protective of him in their own ways.
Such a great show. Thanks for the recaps.
This is one of those shows that make the top-tier level for sure. First episode last night reminded me how much I love it. I was so bummed to see Kenny get the shaft! He and Eve had such a cool dynamic.
They killed Kenny!
I loved Kenny, and I loved that he was the candy thief. He must’ve been on to something to get tossed out of a window.
This is so good, and you’re right about that slutty teacher sidepiece. Niko is such a whiney little pill.
Loved Villanelle’s “tuxedo” and the food fight on her special day.
So happy this is back, but my crappy Hulu won’t air this season till December. The first episode was free on BBC and AMC. Looks like I will be paying to watch now because I am hooked.
Me too. Sad indeed.
Dasha is a Russian gymnast.
This Show has its best moments when it was filmed in Europe. They always show the pink dressed Villanelle to advertise the show. God those blurry browns and grays of London and those black and grays of Russia will yet kill the show. Color and beauty are much more fun for death.
Thank you! I love this show and the only reason I even knew about it was you. Happy to see it brought you back to kinda sane land for a bit.
This show is too good to watch and too hard to recap. You know how you have shows that are kinda of just filler to watch in the background and others are MUST PAY TOTAL ATTENTION? It’s hard to recap this show because all of it is so fucking fascinating. My laptop has not crashed in the the last fifteen minutes or so.
The eeriness in the first episode is everything !
I wonder if Villanelle’s spouse will be a recurring character ? And where did the gymnastics lady come from ? I don’t remember Villanelle having flashbacks of gymnastics in earlier seasons.
Dasha was the gymnist lunatic who trained Villanelle to be an assassin. Villanelle is not a gymnast.
Maybe it’s just me, and the weird kind of mood I’m in lately, but the whole episode felt very disjointed to me. I felt like a lot of loose ends were being tied up in a kind of lazy way.
Is there a new writer, or a new producer? Does M16 know where Eve is, and what she’s doing? Did she resign? Did Villanelle’s brand-new wife just fade off into the woodwork? What happened for Nico to end up in some kind of sanitarium? The last I remember of him, his mistress was dead when he woke up and he had been framed for it. I have too many dumb questions. I also hate that they killed off Kenny, but I presume it has to be part of the plot to get Eve back into the fold.
I know I’m going to love this season, because this is one of the best shows out there, but I wasn’t crazy about this first episode. It must be me, because I haven’t heard anyone else complaining about the jerky pace of it, or the writing.
I think it is just setting up the “where we are now” of the beginning of a new season. Damn, Villanelle’s clothes — the wedding suit — are so on point. I want ALL OF THE THINGS!
I was wondering what happened to Villanelle’s wife too. I think she’s probably gone for good. Short marriage due to assassins needed.
When I saw Nico, I felt bad for him, he looked terrible. But under the circumstances, I guess anyone would be end up like him, in a sanitarium having a breakdown. Maybe he’s in a prison hospital ward? We will see.
Yes, Season 3 has a new head writer named Suzanne Heathcote.
I just binged the first 3 seasons of this . I LOVE this show. I came here to check in and tell you I had started watching because you have been bragging on this show since it began. The first post I see is that KENNY died???? OMW now I am heartbroken. I am trying to wait and watch a few eps. at a time of the new season but I don’t know if I will make it. This show is soooooo goood.
It was definately not not my favorite episode. I am concerned about the new writer already. Kenny was the moral compass of the fucking show.
I need this show right now. So glad they started early. Thanks for recapping!
I’m so happy that we all get the show at the same time! I’m pissed that I can’t binge it though. With Kenny being murdered, we are going to see another side of Carolyn and I can’t wait!!!
I’m really liking this season so far! Killing Kenny was major and majorly sad but I feel like it’s going to force Eve and Carolyn to make some choices about who they really want to be. If that makes any sense. I’m staying positive on my favorite show! Also thank you for looking those two guys up, it’s so hard to remember everyone!
I see we are on the same wavelength. I said, “You Killed Kenny, You Bastards” for that scene too! I love this program. I began binge watching it just in time for the new episodes. It is such an interesting program, adn clever, and funny, and totally screwy too.
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