“How much more darkly satisfying, and true to Killing Eve’s original spirit, for the couple to walk off into the sunset together?” he asked. “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,” he wrote, before referring to character Lena in The 100 dying immediately after sleeping with her female love interest for the first time. A punishing of Villanelle and Eve for the bloody, erotically impelled chaos they have caused. Jennings explained: “The season four ending was a bowing to convention. But the final series ending took me aback,” he wrote in The Guardian on Friday (22 April).Īfter describing the “subversive” vision that he and season one showrunner Phoebe Waller-Bridge had for Villanelle’s on-screen persona, he explained that the choice to kill Villanelle was “a bowing to convention” that doesn’t allow same-sex couples to flourish on TV. “It’s an extraordinary privilege to see your characters brought to life so compellingly. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer as Eve and Villanelle in Killing Eve (BBC America/Anika Molnar)
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