Somehow the prestige and mystery built up over the years is minimized by hollow characters that I’m sure won’t be fleshed out until next season.Īnd then there is Eve. And as we met more of the Twelve, it doesn’t feel like it met the expectations set by the previous seasons. Introducing her daughter, Geraldine, seemed like a great way to push the stone-hearted Carolyn to really open up and care about the murder of her son, but she is reduced to nothing more than a sounding board and a strange love interest to Konstantin.Īnd speaking of the Twelve, was this season about them at all? I mean, I guess? We got to meet some more of their members, but the investigation of the criminal organization was pretty much left to be spearheaded by The Bitter Pill, an online investigative publication who is so poor at their job they didn’t think to check a candy surveillance camera they had running the day of Kenny’s death. Even with Carolyn choosing to kill Paul over Konstantin, it really doesn’t seem like justice for Kenny was anything she was ever interested in. Did he just stumble or was it something more sinister? Turns out no one really cared to interrogate more, and everyone was content to just let Konstantin go about his business running away from the Twelve. Was this season about tracking down who killed Kenny? I really hoped it would be, since it felt like the most shocking part of the season, but instead, we just find out that Konstantin maybe-kind-of-sort-of had something to do with it. If this was about killing your past so you can have a future, the past wasn’t given the emphasis it deserved. Even the death of her surrogate mother, Dasha, doesn’t seem to stir too much up in her, a character who, one could argue, had more of a role in creating Villanelle than her actual mother did. Even though she says she doesn’t want to kill, she continues to do so. Is it coming to terms with her perceived childhood trauma and her feelings towards her estranged mother? I believe the intention of her mother’s death was to show that the person known as Villanelle was dead and that only Oksana remained but even then, besides an emotional reflection on the train, we see no real change in Villanelle.
Ultimately, what was this season was about? Villanelle realizing she no longer wanted to be a monster? It could be a great redemption story but she also just kicked another assassin in front of a train. Maybe that’s the irony of the title of the episode, in that not even the show knows what the characters truly want. The excitement for them to meet again was there, and yet it almost had the same energy as running into a coworker at a supermarket. So in the third season, their first encounter ends with a public brawl on a city bus.
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