Killing Eve just came back with a bang and a ‘big fat lesbian wedding’
Villanelle wore black while giving an unusual wedding toast. (BBC)
Killing Eve is back for its third season, and it seems as though Eve and Villanelle might finally be done with one another. Warning – spoilers follow.
The bloody cat-and-mouse drama returned on Sunday (April 12) on BBC America, picking up six months after Villanelle shot Eve and left her for dead in Rome.
After a brief flashback to 1974 Moscow (more on that later), the season three premiere opened with a wedding. Specifically, Villanelle’s.
It transpires that since we last saw our favourite unhinged assassin, she’s met another woman, Maria.
Killing Eve season three premiere opens with an unusual wedding toast.
“When I first met Maria, I thought: great shoes,” Villanelle jokes while giving her bridal toast.
“But then I learned there’s so much more to her than that. She also has a great house with a pool and a tailor, hairdresser… really is the all-round excellent package.”
Amid awkward titters, she moves on to her recent “really bad break-up”.
“When I think about my ex today. I realise, I’m so much happier now she’s dead,” she says, to silence.
killing eve season 3 starting will villanelle at her own wedding getting married to a woman and talking about eve as her ex has to be the biggest cultural reset of 2020 #KillingEve pic.twitter.com/yamsOQcXrw
— killing eve spoilers ? villanelle’s whore (@miightysiryn) April 13, 2020
Queer Killing Eve fans were, naturally, thrilled by the scene.
also, choosing to open s3 with a big fat lesbian wedding is the reason i keep watching killing eve. the intelligence that it has
— sam ? (@echoedsprks) April 13, 2020
It was a good episode. As long as i get villanelle in suits being gay killing people and villaneve idgaf.
— mari KE SPOILERS (@Oksanasassassin) April 13, 2020
Jodie comer really does bring the gay out of me ? #KillingEve pic.twitter.com/YYXkF4fNwz
— losana tuisawau (@LosanaTwizz) April 13, 2020
Of course, the wedding isn’t some sort of happy-ending reset for Villanelle.
Mid-way through her first dance, she spots a mystery woman leaving the room who turns out to be her old Russian mentor Dasha (the person we saw in the opening flashback).
Quickly the party descends into farce, with Villanelle soon disappearing with Dasha, leaving her new bride in tears.
Elsewhere, we learn that Villanelle was wrong about her ex. Eve is alive and – if not well, certainly breathing.
She’s given up her MI6 life and is now working in a restaurant kitchen, living alone with Niko in a facility recovering from his break down.
The episode ends with a shock death, which – even more surprisingly – doesn’t bring our favourite maybe-ex-couple back together.
It seems as though it’s going to be a while before we see Eve and Villanelle together again. But when we do, it’s sure to be delicious.
