Killing Eve (What I'd Have Done Differently (Spoilers))
What we were promised was an operatic ending. So I figured, since it’s about love, lust and death, I’d give a really quick breakdown of Carmen , then a more detailed breakdown of Killing Eve and look at whether it lived up to the claim, could it perhaps have been better if it had followed the operatic model more closely. So, Carmen … In essence, Carmen, who is a mad flirt, sets her sights on Jose, a soldier, who gets in trouble at work for her and ends up having to desert and join the smugglers with her. She gets bored of him, fancies the shiny new toreador (see massive flirt, above), and is about to go to him, when Jose catches her and stabs her. Jose is arrested and confesses to her murder. (It takes four acts and a lot of singing and fighting along the way.) It is all very tragic - as a deserter and a murderer, Jose is destined to be executed as well. On to Killing Eve … Rather than an episodic breakdown, I’m going to look at Villanelle's and Eve's emotional journeys, b...