First of all, a quick revisit of last week's post about the series finale of Killing Eve.
I wrote "I've known since season 1 that there would be no happy ending for Eve and/or Villanelle, that at least one if not both would end up dead when the series reached it's end." Although the ending was unsatisfactory, my ultimate conclusion was what other way could it end?
As I wrote last week, "Eve and Villanelle were never destined for domestic bliss in a cottage somewhere." Well, maybe not but death was not necessarily the only alternative.
Luke Jennings who wrote the novels on which Killing Eve was based spoke well of the series as a whole but took exception to the end with Villanelle being killed. In the books, Eve and Villanelle do carve out a happy ending for themselves.
Death was not inevitable.
The finale of Killing Eve suffers from a similar problem with the much reviled series finale of How I Met Your Mother.
The series finale of HIMYM was in many ways a perfect capstone to the premise laid out in the first episode of the first season. But all the water that went under the bridge since that first episode made the ending less than satisfactory.
In the same way, the Eve and Villanelle we meet in season 1 episode 1 of Killing Eve are on a hard path towards a fatal destiny for one or both of them. But all that has gone on in the subsequent episodes and seasons has put those two women on different paths.
The argument has been made there is no way Eve could be in a domestic relationship with a psychopath like Villanelle, precluding a happy ending. That's assuming domestic bliss is the only definition of a happy ending. And also assuming Eve's journey has not changed what she would define as a happy ending.
I don't know how Luke Jennings wrapped up things in the books but I thought, what if Villanelle gets to still be a killer and Eve is her handler, guiding her murderous skills for good, not evil, killing sons of bitches who deserve it, that sort of thing or something like it.
OK, so not quite so quick a revisit of Killing Eve. Anyway, I couldn't help thinking about this.
"So Killing Eve ends in death as we always knew it would."
But no, it did not need to.
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Last week, the beginning of the second season of The Flight Attendant dropped. The Flight Attendant was originally conceived as a limited series so the question is there a story for Cassie Bowden to keep this thing going for another season?
Cassie's living in Los Angeles, going to AA meetings and is a couple of days shy of being sober for 1 year. She's got a nice place to live, a nice boyfriend named Marco and she still working as a flight attendant.
And a side hustle she can't tell anyone about, as a civilian asset for the CIA.
Not an actual spy, mind you. Just someone the CIA uses to help keep an eye on certain people. Not to engage with them or follow them around town in a taxi or spy on them from across the street while they have sex in their hotel room.
So natch, Cassie does all these things while in Berlin.
Where she sees her target having sex with a woman who looks like Cassie, right down to the tattoo on her back.
And Cassie's too close surveillance puts her in the blast radius of a car bomb that kills her target.
And Cassie Bowden's life is all crazy all over again and puts her hard won sobriety on a frail and unraveling thread.
Cassie's mind palace returns but this time the occupants are other versions of Cassie.
And Megan, Cassie's friend and fellow flight attendant from season 1 who turned out to be spying for North Korea? She's in trouble and drawing Cassie into her drama.
So there's a lot going on to keep Cassie more than a bit preoccupied for a second season.
When we meet Marcos, Cassie's photographer boyfriend, both Andrea and I wondered, "Hey! Is that Chris Rios from Star Trek: Picard?"
Nah, it can't be. Well, it can be and it is. Marcos is played by Santiago Cabrera who is Rios from Picard. Wow! Small world!
Everything hinges on the performance of Kaley Cuoco who just nails it as Cassie Bowden in various stages of confidence, confusion and panic. The first episode of season 2 opens with Cassie being a bit too over confident that she has life figured out. She quickly experiences the old adage that life is what happens when you're making other plans. The events of Berlin expose that that whatever progress she has made on her journey to sobriety and happiness, she still has a lot of work to do.
So it looks like season 2 of The Flight Attendant will have more than enough to keep us busy.
So that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase. In the coming weeks, I need to update on what's going down on Outlander, Young Sheldon, Star Trek: Picard (spoiler: that's not going to be fun one to write about), Julia (the HBO Max series about chef Julia Child), Naomi and Superman and Lois.
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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BLOG BIDNESS
I'm shutting this thing down!
Well, for a little while.
Taking the rest of April off.
I'm So Glad My Suffering Amuses You will return May 1st with Cinema Sunday when Audrey Hepburn charms Paris.
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