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Killing Eve

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Killing Eve	label	Killing Eve
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Killing Eve	comment	Killing Eve is a British thriller black comedy-drama series developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based off of a series of novels, Villanelle, by Luke Jennings. The series is a co-production between BBC America and BBC iPlayer; in the U.S., it aired on both BBC America and AMC (the latter beginning with Season 2).The series follows Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a desk-bound MI5 Officer, as she begins to track down talented, psychopathic assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer), while both women become obsessed with each other.In genre, Killing Eve is a fairly traditional piece of Spy Fiction — the main characters are government agents, assassins, and spies (and quite a few of them are Russian). But in themes and tropes, Killing Eve is quite unique, placing the homoerotic subtext between hero and villain at the center of its narrative, while further characterizing the two leads in ways like Villanelle being a Likable Villain who is still unquestionably a horrible person. The show is set against a backdrop of politics and intrigue that it largely ignores, directing its focus instead toward an introspective look at its characters.The first season was released in 2018, the second in 2019, and the third in 2020. The fourth and final season was delayed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic before ultimately premiering in late February/early March 2022note 27 February 2022 on BBC America, 28 February 2022 on BBC iPlayer and 5 March 2022 on BBC One and concluding its run on April 10 of that year. Episode recaps can be found here.BBC America has confirmed potential spinoffs are in development.
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Killing Eve / int_101500e	type	Beneath Notice
Killing Eve / int_101500e	comment	Beneath Notice: The new assassin managed to kill the victim by disguising as a beauty salon worker who gave him a pedicure, puncturing his toe that caused a bubble in his bloodstream making him die from an embolism.
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Killing Eve / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
Killing Eve / int_149f7447	comment	Anna herself seemed to think that her and Villanelle's relationship was a sort of Rescue Romance... having very little idea that Villanelle was a sociopath.
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Killing Eve / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Killing Eve / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Due to Villanelle's fondness for penectomies, the many mentions of sausages throughout the show (raw, cooked, being eaten, etc.) make this feel like it was deliberate. Phoebe Waller Bridge has something to say about that.
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Killing Eve / int_19851b86	type	The Sociopath
Killing Eve / int_19851b86	comment	The Sociopath: Villanelle displays most of the symptoms, however she still seems to have genuine feelings for Eve, Konstantin and of course Anna. Whether these feelings are genuine love or simply obsession is not immediately clear, but Konstantin claims that Villanelle "loves you to death" and will destroy Eve in the end, just as she did him, Nadia, and Anna.
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Killing Eve / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Killing Eve / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Villanelle in spades — stylish clothes, fancy (if messy) Parisian apartment, appetite for designer products and nice food, taste for classical music, polyglot and European.
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Killing Eve / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Killing Eve / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: All of the assassins can dole them out, but the most significant is probably the banker whose neck she snaps by trapping his tie in an elevator and yanking it until he dies.
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Killing Eve / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Killing Eve / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: In the first season finale, is Eve genuinely considering having an affair with Villanelle, until she changes her mind and stabs her instead? Or is she merely faking reciprocation of Villanelle's feelings for her, so that Villanelle would let her guard down? In the second season finale, would Eve have ever gone with Villanelle to America, and if so, was it really her realizing Villanelle had a gun when she killed Raymond that changed her mind? Was she merely trying to preserve her idea of herself as a hero, or did she only go alone with Villanelle due to being in shock, and then snapped out of it?
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Killing Eve / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Killing Eve / int_2059a430	comment	Villanelle of course. She fell into the Hedonistic killer category. She seems to thoroughly enjoy the thrill of killing and uses the money to treat herself to nice gifts.
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Killing Eve / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Killing Eve / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Villanelle especially tends to suffer with this. Villanelle's obsession tends to cause her to underrate how personally Eve takes Bill's death, and assumes that Eve will respond better than she does to being corrupted, taking Eve's From Nobody to Nightmare arc much faster than Eve can handle it. However, especially towards Anna. Villanelle seemed to genuinely have no idea for years that Anna at least kind of hated her for killing her husband and fully assumed that love was a good enough excuse. Anna herself seemed to think that her and Villanelle's relationship was a sort of Rescue Romance... having very little idea that Villanelle was a sociopath.
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Killing Eve / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Killing Eve / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Villanelle is much kinder and more innocent in the books. She's still shockingly lovable and sympathetic in the TV show because of some incredible acting, but a much worse person.
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Killing Eve / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
Killing Eve / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: All over the place. There's a whole page dedicated to that.
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Killing Eve / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Killing Eve / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Villanelle momentarily looks at Konstantinâ€™s wrist when she pulls him in for a hug after her assessment. When she makes the threat to his daughter, he shakes his wrist to conceal the bracelet — the accessory that she used to deduce that he indeed has one.
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Killing Eve / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Killing Eve / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Is Carolyn working with the Twelve? The final shot of her interviewing Villanelle would suggest she is at least pretending to be in Season 1, but by Season 2, Villanelle behaves like she's never met her and Carolyn never behaves suspiciously again in Season 2. This was sort-of resolved in Season 3 with the revelation that the interview was actually Carolyn offering Villanelle a job with MI-6, which Villanelle turned down. Nadia, too, is involved with the Twelve throughout Season 1. This is not mentioned again in Season 2, and so is the open question of who else might be part of the Twelve apart from Konstanin.
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Killing Eve / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Killing Eve / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: One of the idioms Eve has picked up during her time in England is her catch-phrase of "piss off". When she visits Niko in hospital after he's nearly killed by Dasha, she promises to try and make things right and find who did it. His response? "Piss off."
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Killing Eve / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
Killing Eve / int_23c132d9	comment	The Ghost is this to Eve. Both are older Asian women who are generally viewed as being Beneath Suspicion despite being highly intelligent and competent, and both use their skills for violence, about which they don't take particular pleasure.
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Killing Eve / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Killing Eve / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Villanelleâ€™s interaction with Gabriel concerning his injuries is mostly this. Justified by Gabriel since he says that doctors and nurses are preventing him from knowing how bad they are when he just wants to know the truth. He also knows that Villanelle isnâ€™t one to mince words and asks her to look under his bandages for this very reason.
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Killing Eve / int_266a9dd6	type	Heel–Faith Turn
Killing Eve / int_266a9dd6	comment	Heelâ€“Faith Turn: Villanelle tries to invoke this in Season 4. She's baptized into a church and becomes a Christian formally (although she isn't clearly a believer) but it's a bumpy ride. After a young woman in the church hits on her, Villanelle nearly kills her by dunking her head in the baptismal font, but then resuscitates her.
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Killing Eve / int_2881d45e	type	Gaining the Will to Kill
Killing Eve / int_2881d45e	comment	Eve Gaining the Will to Kill
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Killing Eve / int_28c1812e	type	Cheated Death, Died Anyway
Killing Eve / int_28c1812e	comment	Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Gabriel survived the car accident in which his parents died, admittedly badly burned. Villanelle then snaps his neck in the hospital in what she thinks of as a Mercy Kill. Konstanin survived being shot in the heart by Villanelle (which she admits she did to kill him) in Season 1 and having a heart attack in Season 3. He's then murdered for real by Pam in Season 4. Villanelle survives being betrayed by Dasha and sabotage that could have killed her, and survives being stabbed in the stomach by Eve. She then dies at the end of Season 4, being shot by Carolyn.
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Killing Eve / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Killing Eve / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Both of Villanelle's parents died in the past, leaving her to be put into an orphanage. It later turns out that her mother is alive. Villanelle kills her in the end.
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Killing Eve / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Killing Eve / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: Eve, Villanelle, Carolyn, Konstantin, and Niko all survive at least one, and in some cases as many as three, situations that might prove fatal in another show. In short, while Anyone Can Die among Killing Eve's supporting characters, the show is much more reluctant to off any of its leads. At least until the final episode.
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Killing Eve / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Killing Eve / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: In Season 1, Villanelle kills Bill, in the same episode he reveals his bisexual past. Villanelle also kills her ex, Nadia. Anna kills herself after her sexual relationship with Villanelle is revealed. In Season 3, Villanelle kills Felix in the same episode he is introduced, and reveals he has a boyfriend. Carolyn later kills Paul, who had an ex husband. In Season 4, Villanelle kills May after May shows romantic interest in her. In a flashback, Carolyn's father kills himself after being blackmailed for being gay. Pam kills Fernanda, an ex of Helene, who Villanelle later kills. In the finale, Carolyn kills Villanelle in the same episode Villanelle finds love.
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Killing Eve / int_2ae29c0d	type	The Dreaded
Killing Eve / int_2ae29c0d	comment	The Dreaded: Raymond, Villanelleâ€™s new handler, is described as this by Konstantin. He handles errant assassins who are on the verge of being eliminated by the organization which employs Villanelle. Heâ€™s indeed so dangerous that heâ€™s considered someone to be wary of even by effective contract killers, and it reflects their precarious situation as a liability for an all-powerful organization like The Twelve, adding more danger in an inherently risky profession. Of course, Villanelle is flippant and continues to taunt Raymond, even saddling him with credit card bills for her expensive purchases.
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Killing Eve / int_2b7ae239	type	Forced Euthanasia
Killing Eve / int_2b7ae239	comment	Forced Euthanasia: Villanelle meets Gabriel, who gets maimed in the car accident that killed his parents. He hasn't yet seen his burns, but she sees them and concedes that they are bad. She then immediately gives him a Neck Snap without further discussion.
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Killing Eve / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Killing Eve / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The following, much to the surprise of other characters. Bill: Queer, really gets around, kinky. Carolyn: The consummate professional, excellent spymaster, gushes like a schoolgirl. Konstantin: Handler of a sociopathic assassin and maybe more, but a true family man. Eve: She fumbles in social situations, is oblivious to her own feelings but is keenly perceptive and adept at making connections, which others, even her own supervisor, werenâ€™t able to notice, thus catching the attention of Carolyn Martens. Villanelle: Sheâ€™s extroverted, a charmer, but actually a lone wolf. It works to her advantage, given that she herself is aware that itâ€™s difficult to work with people like her. When sheâ€™s working with others, if push comes to shove, sheâ€™s shown to be a natural leader and easily takes to calling the shots. After she's undercover as a woman with two philosophy degrees and gets grilled on the subject with questions she can't answer, on the next day Villanelle is shown reading from the same book the questioner had thrust on her (ordering a copy later), reading it for herself with what seems like genuine interest.
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Killing Eve / int_2ed5e99d	type	Depraved Bisexual
Killing Eve / int_2ed5e99d	comment	Depraved Bisexual: Nadia, who comes across as much more fragile than Villanelle but is still a trained assassin who's had relationships with Diego and Villanelle. This is downplayed by the show having other bisexuals as well: Bill, who is a really good guy, and probably Eve herself.
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Killing Eve / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Killing Eve / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Villanelle isnâ€™t above using a child as an accomplice to a crime, killing a human rights activist, sweet-talking a former lover then running her over with a vehicle next, but was mortified at Irinaâ€™s question if sheâ€™s a pedophile when she kidnapped her.
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Killing Eve / int_329a19a0	type	Hollywood Healing
Killing Eve / int_329a19a0	comment	Hollywood Healing: After being stabbed by Eve in the Season 1 finale, Villanelle spends half a day being stitched up in the hospital after spending days wandering around Paris. Her wound is clearly giving her serious trouble, plus she jumped on a guy's car to disguise her injuries. Apparently she can still get into a passerby's car and be driven across to England, in a trunk. Then, when she gets to England, she spends another few days wandering around until being taken in by Julian. By this point, it's implied that her wound is infected, but Julian won't get any medicine for her. She spends days in his house getting sicker and sicker...but is still able to overpower and kill him when necessary. Then Raymond comes to pick her up, and he probably got her medical assistance in the time skip, but she manages to kill a guy by breaking his neck with his own tie merely a couple of days later. Although a Non-Action Guy in Season 2, Konstanin appears to have suffered no ill effects of Villanelle shooting him, despite the fact that she aimed for his heart and that he reappears to Eve mere days after the shooting, according to the show's chronology.
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Killing Eve / int_32c082ae	type	Bury Your Disabled
Killing Eve / int_32c082ae	comment	Bury Your Disabled: In the first episode of Season 2, Villanelle meets Gabriel, who has been severely injured in the car accident that killed his parents. She kills him due to believing he's better off that way.
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Killing Eve / int_3684532f	type	Never Heard That One Before
Killing Eve / int_3684532f	comment	Never Heard That One Before: Subverted. When MI5's quartermaster comes in to outfit Villanelle with some classic spy stuff, she asks for the watch with a laser.
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Killing Eve / int_36dcbe1c	type	Switch to English
Killing Eve / int_36dcbe1c	comment	Switch to English: Villanelle speaks English most of the time, even in a Russian prison (never really satisfactorily explained) or to the French (after a few niceties she prefers to switch to English, even though allegedly French was her favorite subject at school).
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Killing Eve / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Killing Eve / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: Villanelle killed her girlfriend's husband, because he was an obstacle to them. Naturally, her girlfriend was horrified.
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Killing Eve / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Killing Eve / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Carolynâ€™s incredible insight into Eveâ€™s character in Season 2 enabled her to get the effects of her plan to her favour. She successfully manipulated Eve that any course of action sheâ€™ll take will end up with her working for Carolyn and getting her plan realized. Especially in the season finale, that whether Eve joins her or not, her plan was already in her favor that even Kenny, whom she knows wouldnâ€™t subvert her and had reservations about her actions, also became part of the clean up crew to cover their tracks. She used Eveâ€™s eagerness to work the case that she didnâ€™t notice thereâ€™s no paper trail on her, making it convenient for Carolyn to disavow Eve
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Killing Eve / int_3a98aac8	type	Epunymous Title
Killing Eve / int_3a98aac8	comment	Epunymous Title: Eve is the name of the the heroic co-protagonist.
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Killing Eve / int_3ac2aa04	type	Deadly Hug
Killing Eve / int_3ac2aa04	comment	Deadly Hug: In Season 1, Villanelle kills Nadia while giving her a hug, and then gives a male hospital patient a hug just before snapping his neck in Season 2. Pam does this to Konstantin with a pizza cutter in Season 4.
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Killing Eve / int_3dd3951e	type	Cowboy Cop
Killing Eve / int_3dd3951e	comment	Cowboy Cop: While Eve initially skirts the rules when she investigates Villanelle on her own, Villanelle comes across as a criminal version of the trope right down to being pulled off assignments due to reckless behavior and a handler who acts much like Da Chief.
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Killing Eve / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Killing Eve / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Konstantin is one somewhat for Villanelle, who lost her parents as a child.
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Killing Eve / int_400c4f6f	type	Anti-Interference Lock Up
Killing Eve / int_400c4f6f	comment	Anti-Interference Lock Up: Villanelle locked Konstanin's wife in a closet (off-screen) so she could kidnap their daughter Irina and use her to blackmail and threaten Konstanin.
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Killing Eve / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Killing Eve / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Villanelle tells Konstantin that she doesn't even think about Eve while she has the woman's scarf wrapped around her neck. It can also count as Suspiciously Specific Denial since the creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, stated that the characters don't spend a waking minute without thinking of each other. Nikoâ€™s friend, Dom, asks Eve if itâ€™s legal to interview the Polish witness under the guise of being her cousin when itâ€™s clear that sheâ€™s not suited for an interview yet. Eve replies that itâ€™s fine... but didnâ€™t answer Domâ€™s question if it is.
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Killing Eve / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Killing Eve / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Eve and Villanelle successfully team up to destroy The Twelve once and for all. But immediately afterwards, just as the two are celebrating, Carolyn shoots and kills Villanelle, leaving Eve devastated and it permanently damages their friendship, causing Eve and Carolyn to become bitter rivals in the future.
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Killing Eve / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Killing Eve / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Villanelle suffers constant humiliation and pain throughout the series.
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Killing Eve / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Killing Eve / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The viewers are treated to beautiful locations such as sun-kissed Tuscany, sweeping shots of Berlin, Konstantinâ€™s home by the lake, and trees lining up the road as Villanelle drags Irina from their home, showing Villanelleâ€™s glamorous lifestyle as a jet-setting assassin with an all-expense paid privilege. In contrast, the sullen and dour atmosphere outside of Moscow when Villanelle returns to her native country mirrors her unravelling, loss of control, and incomplete knowledge of what is actually happening around her and the true motives of the organisation sheâ€™s working for.
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Killing Eve / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Killing Eve / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In 2.05, Villanelle interrogates The Ghost offscreen. Whatever she does or says to her, it's enough to not only get all the information Eve wants, but also reduces the tough, silent professional killer to tears.
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Killing Eve / int_5067fd81	type	Everyone Is Bi
Killing Eve / int_5067fd81	comment	Everyone Is Bi: Certainly downplayed, and yet, there are shades of it. Characters who have shown at least some indications of bisexuality: Villanelle, Bill, Nadia, Anna, Eve, Elena. The show avoids applying any terms to sexuality — not just in the "never say bi" way, but any way. Even when Bill asks Eve if she's ever been interested in women and she denies it, the word "straight" is not used. The one exception — the Eve asks Bill if he's gay — he shrugs off that classification. ("Were you gay?" "Ehhh... I just fall in love with whoever I fall in love with.") This all comes together in a theme of fluidity in sexuality — not just calling bisexuality "fluidity" but actual fluidity. There can be patterns and exceptions. People can have awakenings later in life.
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Killing Eve / int_50741e7a	type	Can't Default to Murder
Killing Eve / int_50741e7a	comment	Can't Default to Murder: Subverted. In Season 2, Villanelle is forced by British intelligence to agree to avoid killing anyone while she's working with Eve to take down Aaron Peel. She doesn't hold up her end of the bargain. However, British Intelligence was hoping from the beginning that she would disobey their orders.
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Killing Eve / int_50b1855d	type	Spy Fiction
Killing Eve / int_50b1855d	comment	Spy Fiction: The story focuses on assassins, spies, and government agents. Plus it has quite a few Slavs, as is classic.
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Killing Eve / int_50ca4422	type	Unresolved Sexual Tension
Killing Eve / int_50ca4422	comment	Unresolved Sexual Tension: Between Villanelle and Eve. It gets resolved at the end of Season 4.
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Killing Eve / int_51be8071	type	Forced from Their Home
Killing Eve / int_51be8071	comment	Forced from Their Home: Villanelle's mother did this to her twice. First, she sent her away to live in Moscow because she feared Villanelle would hurt her or her siblings due to her psychopathic urges. (Or so she said, but she was a huge Unreliable Narrator.) Then, when Villanelle returned, she sent her away because of "her darkness". But Villanelle killed her and burned the house down instead.
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Killing Eve / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
Killing Eve / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Villanelle is 25 at the start of the series, while Eve is presumably in her forties, like her actress.
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Killing Eve / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Killing Eve / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The song â€œWhen a Woman is Aroundâ€� by Unloved played when the viewer first sees Villanelle on the job in the first episode. The season finale shows Eve walking to Villanelleâ€™s apartment with the same song that underscores Eveâ€™s determination showing that theyâ€™re not so different. Only this time, Eveâ€™s target is Villanelle — who spent most of the season eliminating her own targets but has never been one herself. Season 1 ends with Eve attacking Villanelle and stabbing her, believing she can't love. After Eve tells Villanelle that she can't love at the end of Season 2, Villanelle attacks Eve and shoots her. Season 3 ends with "Tell Me" by Johnny Jewel and Saoirse Ronan playing over Villanelle and Eve's eventual realization that they're in love. Season 4 has the song replay when Villanelle sees Eve at the wedding in the series finale. Season 3 ends with Villanelle and Eve declaring their love for each other and smiling on Tower Bridge. Season 4 ends with Villanelle and Eve embracing in front of the Tower Bridge before Carolyn shoots and kills Villanelle, leaving Eve devastated.
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Killing Eve / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Killing Eve / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Villanelle kills easily; she never shows any remorse and most of the time she relishes in her job. She seems not to think of children as people as she threatens to kill Irina (Konstanin's 12-year-old daughter), but doesn't actually go through with it. Also, when she breaks into the house and kills a protestor, she learns that the woman has a baby after hearing the child crying. She walks into the nursery and runs into the baby's nanny, who's naturally horrified. Villanelle acts as though she's going to kill the infant, observing the woman's protective nature, surprised she'd be protective over a child that's not hers. She kills the nanny, but actually spares the baby girl and brings the child with her. Admittedly, this is a prank on Dasha, but she still plans to pose as its mother for fun. While Dasha (also a murderer) puts the baby in a dustbin when the child begins annoying her, the baby is immediately rescued by bystanders who instantly notice the crying child and call the authorities. (All the drama is seen in the background as Villanelle and Dasha simply have their conversation.)
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Killing Eve / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Killing Eve / int_567e7c4d	comment	Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Both Eve and Villanelle resort to this in the first episode of the second season. Eve says tells train security that she had a bad oyster, which was why she had to leave her things momentarily, and she is allowed to board the train. Villanelle gets to leave the hospital by telling the orderly she got her results and needed a moment alone, which gives her the opportunity to escape from the hospital.
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Killing Eve / int_59ddd555	type	Psycho Lesbian
Killing Eve / int_59ddd555	comment	Psycho Lesbian: Villanelle, who is romantically attracted to women and is a trained, ruthless assassin.
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Killing Eve / int_5a94cbf6	type	Fake Assassination
Killing Eve / int_5a94cbf6	comment	Fake Assassination: Eve hires Villanelle to kill her as a gambit to get her attention so that they can work together.
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Killing Eve / int_61375e57	type	BigDamnKiss
Killing Eve / int_61375e57	comment	Big Damn Kiss: Villanelle and Eve kiss during a fight on a bus in Season 3.
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Killing Eve / int_685d06d	type	Plot Parallel
Killing Eve / int_685d06d	comment	Plot Parallel: A major topic of the show is admiration, obsession, and attraction between women, and how these feelings are quite similar and often intertwined. The A-plot for this is between Villanelle and Eve, but the way Elena views Carolyn mimics this.
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Killing Eve / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Killing Eve / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Villanelle tells Eve in the fifth episode that itâ€™s possible theyâ€™re working for the same people if they follow the chain of command up high enough. Upon arriving in Russia and seeing Carolyn being quite chummy with Konstantin, it appears that maybe Villanelle wasnâ€™t too far off.]] Niko might be boring, but his "Reason You Suck" Speech to both Villanelle and Eve are accurate.
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Killing Eve / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Killing Eve / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Bill was Eveâ€™s immediate supervisor but they had a reversal of positions when she took the job for Carolyn. Nevertheless, he educated her on her possible bisexuality, how kinks can be specific and about his openness to sexual exploration in spite of his advanced age which shows that any person including Eve, can have an awakening. He also was the person she respected to be her anchor. When he died, she went full throttle on her pursuit of Villanelle and her obsession. His death compelled Eve to double down on her actions, for better or worse.
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Killing Eve / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Killing Eve / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Both Villanelle and Eve wipe a drop of blood off themselves in the first episode, largely hinting that they are not so different.
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Killing Eve / int_6d892421	type	Teacher/Student Romance
Killing Eve / int_6d892421	comment	Teacher/Student Romance: Villanelle fell in love with her teacher Anna as a teenager, and they had an affair. She ended up castrating and killing Anna's husband to "free" Anna to be with her.
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Killing Eve / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Killing Eve / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Characters tend to catch it often. Bill chases Villanelle into a nightclub, despite being in no way prepared to deal with her No one decides to give Eve protection or put surveillance on her house, even after Villanelle knows where she lives and is clearly obsessed with her.
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Killing Eve / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Killing Eve / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: Villanelle of course. She fell into the Hedonistic killer category. She seems to thoroughly enjoy the thrill of killing and uses the money to treat herself to nice gifts. Raymond and the Ghost are assassin variants. Aaron is a sadistic version who slashes the throats of pretty young women on his cameras.
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Killing Eve / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Killing Eve / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Eve is impressed with the precision of the murder incident in Vienna to the surprise of her colleagues and superiors.
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Killing Eve / int_7a667c8d	type	A Threesome Is Hot
Killing Eve / int_7a667c8d	comment	A Threesome Is Hot: Villanelle has an offscreen threesome with two random women whom she ran into (possibly a same-sex couple), and treats it with her usual casual manner after they leave when Eve's there in Season 2. Also, in Season 1 she had a threesome with a couple when it was established that Villanelle Really Gets Around.
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Killing Eve / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Killing Eve / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Eve has lots of questions for Carolyn when she is summoned to work with her again in the first episode of Season 2, but is silenced when Carolyn asked: "What really happened in Paris?"
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Killing Eve / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Killing Eve / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: With a name like Villanelle... it obviously sounds like villain, except as a feminine name.
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Killing Eve / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
Killing Eve / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Spy Speak: In the fourth episode, the conversation between Villanelle and Diego is assassin-specific and a signal that they will be working together. Villanelle proceeds to do this but then she couldnâ€™t resist taunting Diego about his hood.
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Killing Eve / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Killing Eve / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: 1.05. Villanelle has Eve again the wall, with a knife at her throat and is looking at her lips. The Moment Killer: Niko arriving home. The Season 1 final, when Villanelle and Eve are lying on the bed — before Eve stabs her. 2.04, between Eve and Hugo. The Moment Killer is when Eveâ€™s phone goes off.
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Killing Eve / int_7f08fec3	type	The Fashionista
Killing Eve / int_7f08fec3	comment	The Fashionista: Villanelle is one. It is a way to express herself and a sign of her financial independence.
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Killing Eve / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Killing Eve / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: While Villanelleâ€™s overconfidence, loose cannon behavior, and flippant dismissals irritate Konstantin, irk Anna, and infuriate Eve, they canâ€™t deny that she elicits smiles and guffaws especially when she unexpectedly jokes in the middle of a tense situation or where sheâ€™s being reprimanded for her misbehavior.
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Killing Eve / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Killing Eve / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Our story focuses on Eve (a woman who has a morbid fascination with female assassins and may or may not be infatuated with one), Villanelle (a female assassin who is definitely infatuated with Eve, and is also a psychopath), Frank (a whiny dick-swab with major financial issues who is The Mole), Carolyn (an Iron Lady who may or may not be entirely on the level and is certainly hiding something), and Kenny (a brilliant, introverted hacker). Elena and Bill are the only protagonists who aren't somewhat messed up, and Bill's dead before the first season is halfway through.
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Killing Eve / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
Killing Eve / int_83a903f6	comment	Stepford Smiler: Discussed by Irina, her kidnap victim, by observing that Villanelle is distraught about her former loverâ€™s suicide, further saying that sheâ€™s a good person underneath because she tries to hide her tortured soul with a smile, and that sad people have more capacity for empathy since they feel things more. Of course, Villanelle was flippant and dismisses her as one of those â€œprofound kids.â€� The show and the character herself are aware that people are expecting her to be this while she has repeatedly shown to feel joy and awe in witnessing carnage and murder.
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Killing Eve / int_83f0971b	type	Mexican Standoff
Killing Eve / int_83f0971b	comment	Mexican Standoff: Between Nadia, Villanelle, and Diego in the climactic scene of the fourth episode. Between Eve and Villanelle in the season finale.
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Killing Eve / int_84ef33b2	type	Inappropriate Hunger
Killing Eve / int_84ef33b2	comment	Inappropriate Hunger: Eve was taken aback by the smell of the corpse in the morgue then was suddenly surprised that she wanted to eat a burger. Justified by the medical examiner when she said that the smell of formaldehyde makes people crave meat.
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Killing Eve / int_8560c16f	type	Fatal Family Photo
Killing Eve / int_8560c16f	comment	Fatal Family Photo: Sort of. The audience is introduced to Bill's lovely baby, and some of his personal backstory. Of course, he doesn't make it to the next episode.
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Killing Eve / int_85c4ebe0	type	Bisexual Love Triangle
Killing Eve / int_85c4ebe0	comment	Bisexual Love Triangle: A psychotic version between Eve, an apparently straight married woman, who becomes obsessed with lesbian serial killer / assassin, Villanelle. Eve's husband, Niko, is completely disgusted by the violence that Villanelle brings into their lives, and Eve's growing attraction to it, meaning that Eve has to choose between Villanelle and homicidal chaos or Niko and boring normality.
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Killing Eve / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Killing Eve / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Villanelle, the other co-protagonist.
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Killing Eve / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Killing Eve / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: Villanelle develops as one for Eve, going as far as stealing her clothes, spying on her and asking a sexual partner with similar thick wavy hair if she can call her "Eve."
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Killing Eve / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Killing Eve / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Okay, Eve, you have two people vying for your affection. One is your nice, pacifist husband who has a stable job and wants to protect you — though, granted, this does manifest in ways that you do not like, and he doesn't seem to quite understand you and what makes you tick. The other is a gorgeous young woman who kills people for a living, is utterly obsessed with you, and takes a worrying amount of pleasure in violence and bloodshed — but she's arguably the person who understands you most in the world. Decisions, decisions...
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Killing Eve / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Killing Eve / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The series is character-driven which makes the carnage even more brutal even if it happens off-screen. Villanelle meeting Eve for the first time in the bathroom left her so at a loss for words that she lost control and killed everyone in the hospital room, though Konstantin had emphasised that she needed to make it look like suicide to fend off any suspicion from the authorities. The beginning of episode 5, with Eve trying to approach Villanelle after she repeatedly shoots at the vehicle where her target is in.
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Killing Eve / int_97402fc2	type	Won't Do Your Dirty Work
Killing Eve / int_97402fc2	comment	Won't Do Your Dirty Work: Villanelle is used to doing the dirty work for the Twelve, to the point where she's prepared to kill her mentor, Konstanin, who is one of the few people who care for her, just because they tell her to, and to kill a (to her) random woman who was nice to her because Konstanin asked her to and because she wanted him to help her find her family. However, later in Season 3, she finally starts to break away from this attitude, refusing to help Konstanin or kill Carolyn when it looks like Carolyn is about to kill Konstanin.
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Killing Eve / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Killing Eve / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: While Konstantin couldnâ€™t be exactly described as an upright man, he is quite benevolent towards Villanelle compared to her new handler who warned her with a chokehold that would have killed her while sheâ€™s still weakened from her injuries. This scene could be compared to Konstantin warning Villanelle in the first season when he wrapped his hand around her neck, but it wasnâ€™t intended to hurt her and only to frighten her when she went behind his back to assasinate the French business magnate.
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Killing Eve / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Killing Eve / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The promotional posters depicting Eve wearing a black dress and Villanelle wearing a white dress foreshadows not only Villanelle's redemption arc and Eve's corruption and descent onto evil and seeking revenge but also Villanelle being killed and Eve mourning her loss of Villanelle in the series finale.
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Killing Eve / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Killing Eve / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: Made use of by an interpreter struggling to understand Katya's Polish: she is not only drunk but much younger than the interpreter and using slang — Eve calls on her husband and their young friend Dom (both Polish) to decode it.
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Killing Eve / int_9e0d0926	type	Sex Is Violence
Killing Eve / int_9e0d0926	comment	Sex Is Violence: The romantic/sexual tension between Eve and her stalker Villanelle is juxtaposed with Eve and Villanelle attempting to physically harm each other, fight back against one another, Eve luring her stalker close in an attempt to kill her and Villanelle murdering someone if not seducing them beforehand.
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Killing Eve / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
Killing Eve / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: Much to Villanelleâ€™s dismay, the lyrics to Roxetteâ€™s â€œListen to Your Heartâ€� playing on the radio as Konstantin drives them away from London actually applies to her jealousy over Eve investigating the new assassin. She demands he turn it off, but he refuses. In Season 3, a cover of Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do".
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Killing Eve / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Killing Eve / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: Villanelle's most notable crime was castrating a man before murdering him. Later, it's revealed she had been fixated on his wife, with whom she was having an affair.
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Killing Eve / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Killing Eve / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: The show's title could be referring to: A time of killing ("eve" in the context of "on the eve of the elections") Villanelle going after Eve Eve Gaining the Will to Kill A part of Eve dies, or the old Eve dies to make way for the new. Eve losing her chance at spending a happy life with Villanelle due to Villanelle being killed off by Carolyn.
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Killing Eve / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Killing Eve / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In spades. The series employs this as well as its characters. Villanelle uses this as a diversionary tactic when Eve starts to ask her why she castrates her victims, as well as about her past. Villanelle appears to cooperate... until she asks about Eveâ€™s wardrobe and how it confounds her which made Eve smile for a bit and appeared to be on the verge of laughing, then Eve asked about Bill.
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Killing Eve / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Killing Eve / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: The director says that Eve and Villanelle meeting in the bathroom for the first time counts as this.
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Killing Eve / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Killing Eve / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: For all of her impressive intellect and unique talent in making connections that makes her a maverick, Eve is lacking in self-awareness that sheâ€™s unable to (or doesnâ€™t want to) know what she wants or where her motivation to chase Villanelle is coming from. This leads her to compromise the safety of her friends, ruin her marriage, and lose her jobs.
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Killing Eve / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Killing Eve / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Villanelle advises Eve not to tuck the knife at the front of her pants so that it wonâ€™t slip and cut her. Eve remembers this all too well when she later conceals a knife at the back of her pants to stab Villanelle.
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Killing Eve / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Killing Eve / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Happens to quite a few characters. Billâ€™s reaction when he realized that Villanelle was luring him to the club so she could kill him without anyone noticing. Konstantin almost says this word for word when Villanelle asks him about â€œThe Twelveâ€�, the organisation he works for, of which she has no prior knowledge until that moment.
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Killing Eve / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
Killing Eve / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Carolyn and Kenny's relationship is stated to be strained and potentially abusive, as Carolyn is able to manipulate Kenny into doing her dirty work, keeps him under her thumb and working for her despite him being a tech genius, and she admits that she lacks maternal instinct. Their relationship is portrayed as totally different in Season 3, where Carolyn says that she and Kenny understood each other, were very similar, and she loved him more than Geraldine.
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Killing Eve / int_b11d81cc	type	Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss
Killing Eve / int_b11d81cc	comment	Sweeps Week Lesbian Kiss: Villanelle and Eve on a bus in Season 3.
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Killing Eve / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Killing Eve / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: What Nadia wrote on the note. As she did it as a desperate ploy before Villanelle killed her, and she and Villanelle share a Dark and Troubled Past, it seems unlikely that it was always all about the Peeles, a family that have never appeared or been mentioned in Season 1. In Season 3, there's also no mention of Villanelle killing Anna's husband (a major element of her backstory in Season 1), with her mother only mentioning that she burned down an orphanage, something which wasn't mentioned in Season 1 nor that she was abandoned by her mother, as Eve only reads about Villanelle's father. Carolyn and Kenny's relationship is stated to be strained and potentially abusive, as Carolyn is able to manipulate Kenny into doing her dirty work, keeps him under her thumb and working for her despite him being a tech genius, and she admits that she lacks maternal instinct. Their relationship is portrayed as totally different in Season 3, where Carolyn says that she and Kenny understood each other, were very similar, and she loved him more than Geraldine.
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Killing Eve / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Killing Eve / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: On a meta-level, Villanelle mouthing off to the Instagram influencer who asked for her photo reflects what the writers think of this job and those preoccupied with them.
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Killing Eve / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Killing Eve / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Villanelle and Eve are this to each other. Villanelle might be enjoying her life as a sensation-seeking assassin all too much but sheâ€™s drawn to Eveâ€™s life of stability and a legitimate job with friends and co-workers who like her. Eve has a good job, a good husband, has good friends in Bill and Elena, and has enough time to do her hobbies, but sheâ€™s drawn to female assassins and dreams of a life — like Villanelle's — where she gets to live out her desires and impulses without any compunction or self-consciousness. The Ghost is this to Eve. Both are older Asian women who are generally viewed as being Beneath Suspicion despite being highly intelligent and competent, and both use their skills for violence, about which they don't take particular pleasure.
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Killing Eve / int_b7978bb4	type	Deadly Sparring
Killing Eve / int_b7978bb4	comment	Deadly Sparring: This is suggested to be Dasha's specialty. While we don't see it, Konstanin and Villanelle both make reference to a part of Villanelle's training where Dasha sabotaged Villanelle and nearly caused her death.
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Killing Eve / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
Killing Eve / int_ba236071	comment	Villanelle: Sheâ€™s extroverted, a charmer, but actually a lone wolf. It works to her advantage, given that she herself is aware that itâ€™s difficult to work with people like her. When sheâ€™s working with others, if push comes to shove, sheâ€™s shown to be a natural leader and easily takes to calling the shots. After she's undercover as a woman with two philosophy degrees and gets grilled on the subject with questions she can't answer, on the next day Villanelle is shown reading from the same book the questioner had thrust on her (ordering a copy later), reading it for herself with what seems like genuine interest.
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Killing Eve / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Killing Eve / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Villanelle in great distress and agitation which is uncharacteristic for her, had to call MI-6 and ask for Eve Polastri to try to escape Julianâ€™s house. The automated operator didn't understand her well and repeatedly asked for the personâ€™s name, causing her to break down in frustration and scream:
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Killing Eve / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Killing Eve / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Eve tells Bill she's pretty straight. But Bill suggests Eve is bi because of how she recalls Villanelle. Bill should know, as he's fallen in love with both sexes himself. The show's narrative definitely agrees with him.
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Killing Eve / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Killing Eve / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Villanelle gives one to Bill when he and Eve follow her into a nightclub, and it is terrifying. It also reminds Bill that he's chasing down a highly-trained, utterly-psychopathic professional killer...
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Killing Eve / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Killing Eve / int_bf1255fa	comment	Bill: Queer, really gets around, kinky.
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Killing Eve / int_c197275d	type	Ethereal White Dress
Killing Eve / int_c197275d	comment	Ethereal White Dress: In the promotional posters for the fourth and final season of the television series, Villanelle is depicted wearing a white long sleeved dress as she is undergoes a religion-themed journey to redemption. Doubles as a White Shirt of Death since Villanelle gets killed in the series finale.
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Killing Eve / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
Killing Eve / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: The books are titled after Villanelle, while the show is titled after Eve.
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Killing Eve / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Killing Eve / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: Carolynâ€™s conversation with Eve concerning relationships is a variation of this. It results to a lot of unnerved chagrin on Eveâ€™s part given how itâ€™s possibly accurate, and since Bill has said something like this to her earlier.
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Killing Eve / int_c601fc37	type	Professional Killer
Killing Eve / int_c601fc37	comment	Professional Killer: Villanelle's profession.
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Killing Eve / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Killing Eve / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Director Jon East cited Ingmar Bergman's Persona as an influence in the fifth episode. There are several camera shots used by Jon East as a homage to films by Stanley Kubrick, namely the chapel scene in episode four which is reminiscent of the camera position in the bunk scene in Full Metal Jacket, and the use of the 1-point perspective in the stand-off between Eve and Villanelle where she points the knife on her chest as a homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Mexican stand-off between Villanelle, Nadia, and Diego is a homage to the finale in Reservoir Dogs. One of Villanelle's wigs is named Lulu, after the character developer Phoebe Waller-Bridge played in Crashing.
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Killing Eve / int_c83f40d8	type	Bystander Syndrome
Killing Eve / int_c83f40d8	comment	Bystander Syndrome: A woman on a bus in Bulgaria spots one of Villanelle's victims, wounded and banging on the window of his office building, trying to attract attention and get help. As Villanelle advances on him and the bus pulls away, the woman pulls out her phone...to call her mother, asking if she wants anything from the shops.
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Killing Eve / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Killing Eve / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Invoked by Eve during the dinner when she learned about Villanelleâ€™s family background and history of violence. Anna considered the possibility that Villanelleâ€™s violent behaviour could be a result of poor upbringing and thus she gave Villanelle extra attention, more than any other student sheâ€™s ever had. This led to an illicit affair which ended with Annaâ€™s husband being murdered by Villanelle.
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Killing Eve / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Killing Eve / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Although a Non-Action Guy in Season 2, Konstanin appears to have suffered no ill effects of Villanelle shooting him, despite the fact that she aimed for his heart and that he reappears to Eve mere days after the shooting, according to the show's chronology.
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Killing Eve / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Killing Eve / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: Whatever Villanelle does to the Ghost.
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Killing Eve / int_d0bf8a6d	type	No Periods, Period
Killing Eve / int_d0bf8a6d	comment	No Periods, Period: Averted. Villanelle has tampons stored along with her guns and weapons showing that theyâ€™re just as essential to her life and job. This also serves as a ploy to get her assessor to stop asking questions about anxiety by mentioning her heavy period. She also gets another caterer to allow her access to the bathroom during a mission by saying that a guest asked to bring her a tampon.
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Killing Eve / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Killing Eve / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Eve ties her hair up in the bathroom then was suddenly reminded of the young woman who told her that she looked better with her hair down. This leads to Eve suspecting that she might be a clue to their suspect. Eve figures out that Frank is the mole being paid by dubious organisations for giving intel by remembering a conversation where heâ€™s worried about his childrenâ€™s future because of money issues.
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Killing Eve / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
Killing Eve / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: In Season 3, Eve and Villanelle have a physical fight on a bus before culminating in a kiss and then back to fighting.
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Killing Eve / int_d2ddb362	type	ReasonYouSuckSpeech
Killing Eve / int_d2ddb362	comment	Niko might be boring, but his "Reason You Suck" Speech to both Villanelle and Eve are accurate.
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Killing Eve / int_d485cb13	type	Psychotic Smirk
Killing Eve / int_d485cb13	comment	Psychotic Smirk: Villanelle delivers a chilly one to Bill, right before she turns the chase on him and kills him.
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Killing Eve / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
Killing Eve / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: Villanelle kills her mother due to the latter rejecting her when they reconnect.
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Killing Eve / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Killing Eve / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Julian was so distraught over upsetting Villanelle that he appears to be remorseful and miserable over what Villanelle must be thinking about him. She answers by saying â€œI think you will bleed to deathâ€�, reverting to her Russian accent before kicking him in the head.
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Killing Eve / int_ddb220f5	type	GetAholdOfYourselfMan
Killing Eve / int_ddb220f5	comment	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Villanelle has to do this to Eve in a darkly hilarious moment in "I Have a Thing About Bathrooms." Upon finding Villanelle in her apartment (to have dinner with her), Eve of course freaks out and starts screaming for help. When screaming "I'M NOT GOING TO HURT YOU!" and choking Eve doesn't work, Villanelle shoves Eve into the bathtub and turns on the cold water to shut her up. Amazingly, it works. She also gives her a slap in the Season 2 finale after Eve kills Raymond.
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Killing Eve / int_e071496c	type	Within Arm's Reach
Killing Eve / int_e071496c	comment	Within Arm's Reach: Parodied in Season 1. While Villanelle is attacking Eve, she panics and grabs a toilet brush. This actually does stop Villanelle, but just so she can laugh about how ridiculous it is. Played straight in Season 2. Villanelle is in a knock-down, drag-out fight with Julian while she has a serious infection. He's strangling her...when she realizes that there's a vase within arm's reach that she uses to hit him and regain the upper hand.
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Killing Eve / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Killing Eve / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Subverted. Carolyn is trying to get information out of Frank, but he's not cooperating, and is instead whining and nearing a breakdown. Carolyn sighs, rolls up her sleeves, tells Eve, "I'm sorry you have to see this," and then... gives Frank a hug. It works, and he starts spilling his guts. Possibly played straight in Season 2, with whatever Villanelle does to the Ghost to break her.
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Killing Eve / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Killing Eve / int_e1acc872	comment	Villanelle's obsession tends to cause her to underrate how personally Eve takes Bill's death, and assumes that Eve will respond better than she does to being corrupted, taking Eve's From Nobody to Nightmare arc much faster than Eve can handle it.
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Killing Eve / int_e3277b30	type	Contrast Montage
Killing Eve / int_e3277b30	comment	Contrast Montage: Done to wonderful effect at the end of the second episode. To the tune of â€œLa Marseillaiseâ€�, Eve and Villanelle simultaneously search each otherâ€™s identity which results in both women being astounded that theyâ€™ve already met in a situation where theyâ€™re least likely to suspect each other. This emphasizes that while they lead different lives, one in a domestic situation and the other living it up in her gorgeous flat as a single, affluent woman, they each inhabit an environment dominated by men and share a macabre fascination with murder. Even their reactions to their realizations are contrasted; the normally unflappable assassin Villanelle tosses her laptop onto the bed and appears to be genuinely shocked, while Eve is grinning and perfectly calm, despite the fact that she might now be Villanelle's next target.
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Killing Eve / int_e462893a	type	Artistic License â€“ Sports
Killing Eve / int_e462893a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Sports: The gymnastics scene from 1974 seen in Season 3 is in some respects extremely accurate (the leotard Dasha wears, for instance, is a near-exact replica of a Soviet team leotard from the '70s, and the gym looks very similar to those seen in the Eastern Bloc at the time), but in others is completely inaccurate. What will leap out to any gymnastics fan is the very 2010s-era uneven bars set on which Dasha, wearing a very modern pair of Velcro grips, is doing an admirably accurate but very modern uneven bars combinationnote a Jaeger-Pak salto-Shaposhnikova, to be precise, variations of which appear in every elite Russian bars routine ever in the modern era. In the '70s the uneven bars were set much closer together, meaning that routines looked one heck of a lot more like this than like this. In the intervening years, the apparatus changed so much that it's practically a different event now. Possibly justified though — where on earth are you going to find a gymnast these days who can do '70s-era bars?note The stunts were done by elite British gymnast Lucy Stanhope, who has competed internationally for Great Britain — which definitely explains the grips.
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Killing Eve / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Killing Eve / int_e624f0e8	comment	Villanelle tells Konstantin that she doesn't even think about Eve while she has the woman's scarf wrapped around her neck. It can also count as Suspiciously Specific Denial since the creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, stated that the characters don't spend a waking minute without thinking of each other.
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Killing Eve / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Killing Eve / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Villanelle has a certain habit of this. First she cuts off Frank's penis before killing him, then it's revealed she did this to an old lover's husband as well.
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Killing Eve / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Killing Eve / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Villanelle correctly deduced that Frankâ€™s mother — who is actually a Russian Intelligence Agent, and not related to Frank at all — is lying when she said that heâ€™s not at home by noticing that his car is still in the garage.
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Killing Eve / int_ece6f910	type	Moment Killer
Killing Eve / int_ece6f910	comment	2.04, between Eve and Hugo. The Moment Killer is when Eveâ€™s phone goes off.
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Killing Eve / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Killing Eve / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Villanelle kills someone.
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Killing Eve / int_f0e0e894	type	Hidden Buxom
Killing Eve / int_f0e0e894	comment	Hidden Buxom: The first Villanelle killing Eve hears about was supposedly committed by a flat-chested woman, but we see that Villanelle had strapped down her breasts as part of a disguise.
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Killing Eve / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Killing Eve / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Villanelle tunes out while sheâ€™s staring at a passerby — a woman with thick, wavy hair — causing her male date to ask her if she happens to know the woman by any chance.
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Killing Eve / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
Killing Eve / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: In the pilot alone, two fairly long scenes are devoted to Villanelle savouring mildly sophisticated food. Right before committing a crime. It ties in her status as a Hedonistic killer associating killing and indulgence. Sharp eyed viewers might have noticed the many, many shots of sausages throughout the show.
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Killing Eve / int_f2be6700	type	Stepford Snarker
Killing Eve / int_f2be6700	comment	Stepford Snarker: Villanelle flips between this and Stepford Smiler as discussed above, and Niko also has his moments when he and Eve's marriage is falling apart.
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Killing Eve / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Killing Eve / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: At the hospital in Paris, Villanelle meets Gabriel, a tween who has lost his parents and had his face disfigured in a car accident. Because he is nice to her and is likely to have a difficult life after he recovers, Villanelle does what she thinks is a favor by snapping his neck. However, it's something of Protagonist-Centred Morality as there's no indication he would agree.
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Killing Eve / int_f5dc896c	type	Fire Alarm Distraction
Killing Eve / int_f5dc896c	comment	Fire Alarm Distraction: In the Season 2 episode "The Hungry Caterpillar", as Eve is seducing her husband Niko in his classroom, he pulls her in for a kiss and she notices an apple on a desk. Thinking that Villanelle is nearby, Eve immediately walks down the hallway and triggers the fire alarm, making everyone evacuate the building.
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Killing Eve / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Killing Eve / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: In the fourth episode, Diego keeps asking everyone if anyone needs to pee before they continue with the job. Villanelle taunts him by refusing to comply and says that she can she hold it in. According to the actor, Diego is described in the script as a â€œtheatrical douche with a weak bladder.â€�
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Killing Eve / int_fd33878a	type	British Humour
Killing Eve / int_fd33878a	comment	British Humour: It mostly comes from Eve's family and friends, but Eve delivers some herself. Most notably is her Catchphrase of "piss off," and flatly describing how she'd brutally murder her husband to him.
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Killing Eve / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Killing Eve / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Villanelle attempts to make a young girl smile back at her and was irritated when she didnâ€™t. She observed that the young girl reciprocated a male attendantâ€™s smile then proceeded to imitate this by following the facial details that make a genuine smile to the T. The young girl finally responded in kind and Villanelle rewards her... by tossing her ice cream over her lap.
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Killing Eve / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Killing Eve / int_fed93e1b	comment	What Nadia wrote on the note. As she did it as a desperate ploy before Villanelle killed her, and she and Villanelle share a Dark and Troubled Past, it seems unlikely that it was always all about the Peeles, a family that have never appeared or been mentioned in Season 1.
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