As much as I love Killing Eve, it is definitely time for the show to die. Which brings us mercifully to it's 4th and final season.
The will they/won't they cat & mouse relationship between Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a vital element of this series. But there's only so many times these two can be brought to the brink of something that never be before it becomes, well, old.
The end of season 3 brought us as close to an almost grown up resolution of the whole Eve/Villanelle dynamic. On a London bridge, the two meet and Eve admitting her obsession with Villanelle professes she wants it to be over. Villanelle proposes they turn their backs to one another and walk in opposite directions of the bridge without looking back. The two women do this but then they both look back.
Where are we now in season 4?
Carolyn is bored out of her freaking mind as a cultural attache or some shit in Britain's embassy in Spain.
Konstantin is now the Mayor of a Russian town where we see his office is attacked by a lone woman on a motorcycle. This helmet leather suited woman boldly barges through the front door into Konstantin's office. It's the sort of ballsy shit that Villanelle used to do all the time. But when the helmet comes off...
Holy shit! It's Eve Polastri!
Eve is working for a private security firm but is still on her own mission to expose and stop the mysterious criminal cabal known only as The Twelve.
What's up with Villanelle? She's living with a minister and his daughter while getting ready for her baptism. She's trying really hard to appear (operative word there is "appear") to be good, going as far as to get baptized. Villanelle doesn't believe any of this, she's just trying to impress Eve.
Eve wants nothing to do with it.
Villanelle does find Jesus. Jodie Comer does double duty with as both Villanelle and her hallucinated Jesus Christ with a goatee and high heeled gold thigh boots.
Look, as much fun as it to see Comer as Jesus by way of Kinky Boots, it doesn't quite feel like Villanelle's brand of crazy.
Jesus doesn't stick around long after Villanelle kills the minister and his daughter.
We're on one last lap of the Killing Eve roundabout for Eve and Villanelle, the old cat & mouse as the two circle each other. The expectation is one or both of them will end up dead when this is over.
If this ends up with Eve and Villanelle living together happily ever after in domestic tranquility, I will be quite surprised.
Batwoman reached it's 3rd season finale last week and it's an exciting thrill ride with Marquis Jett's version of the Joker stealing the Bat Blimp (yes, the Bat Blimp) to launch an attack on Gotham City with some acid bombs created by OG Joker. Why? For the evulz!
It's straightforward Batmanesque fun! Pyscho villain endangers Gotham City and it's up to someone in a Bat suit to stop 'em.
Batwoman zaps Marquis with the Joker buzzer to undo the brain damage and it does appear to work. (Marquis could be faking.)
As Batwing, Luke Fox is able to work out a last second save to have the Bat Blimp (yes, Bat Blimp) to explode over a desolate part of Gotham City.
In the end, Gotham celebrates Batwoman for saving the day, recognizing the Joker as the cause for the destruction that did occur.
All is right in the world. Ryan Wilder is back as CEO of Wayne Enterprises. (It still does not make sense but I am glad to see that happen.)
Ryan Wilder and Sophie Moore are definitely a thing with PDA and everything. Yay, Wildmoore!
Maybe we're finally going to get HamFox? There is some acknowledgement of the attraction between Luke Fox and Mary Hamilton.
And the last we see of Alice, she's scurrying out of town sans the brassy blonde 'do but as the brunette Beth Kane. Is there finally some hope for redemption for her?
The episode does end on a bit of a cliffhanger as a reporter on the scene of the crashed Bat Blimp (yes, Bat Blimp!) is attacked by a skeletal monster thing.
I'm guessing... Helgrammite?
Season 4 of Batwoman is not a sure thing. So far the CW has not announced a decision on renewing the show. If the end of season 3 does mark the series finale, I think it ends in a good place.
Next week in the Touchbase, let's catch up with The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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