Killing Eve

The Perfect Yin Yang

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“ I think about you all the time. I think about what you’re wearing and what you’re doing and who you’re doing it with. I think about what friends you have. I think about what you eat before you work and what shampoo you use and what happened in your family. I think about your eyes and your mouth and what you feel when you kill someone. I think about what you have for breakfast. I just…want to know everything.”

From season 1, it was clear Eve was so interested in Villanelle as a person, not just as an assassin. Her monologue at the end sounded like someone that wanted to know intimate things about her like breakfast, her friends, what she feels. I think their relationship was still cat and mouse until the moment the knife went in and it evolved into cat and cat.

One thing about Villanelle I find fascinating is how she tries to learn what a person wants whether facsimile or misunderstanding, she does try for example, she has learnt Eve’s husband is untouchable without being told. The season 2 ending, I feel Villanelle in her heart really did believe that she was in love and that was how to express but I I don’t blame Eve too for rejecting her even though somehow it felt like this is what you asked for going back to her monologue in S1, ‘I want to know what you feel when you kill someone ’, and Villanelle take people literally, she is definitely not that person you want to say one thing to and mean another thing. I honestly see why Eve rejected her, she had just been manipulated by Carolyn but in a way I believe Eve trusted Villanelle and she was in a daze, almost like hypnosis after killing Raymond until the wake up call, the finger click was that Villanelle too had manipulated her. In that moment I understood her rejection coupled with the expression like she was a thing to be owned or belong to someone. Season 3 really helped to do the work of bringing them to the perfect yin yang. Villanelle had now learnt and understood, if you love someone, you let them go which may have been squeezed out of her individual journey finding out no one really wanted her, not her mother and her handlers and the 12 only wanted a killing machine, not her. Eve had come to a place of acceptance, acceptance of who she is now which may have been squeezed out of all the dominos finally falling to the last bit and acceptance of Villanelle too