mar ia

Fiona Apple // photo: Renaud Monfourny 1997

jodie comer and sandra oh gave us one of the best onscreen kisses ever

Y’all are totally sleeping on Eve’s story and development in this episode.

This episode is so monumental to Eve’s development from her throwing away Villanelle’s cake only to immediately regret it (very symbolic of their relationship). I think her devastion as she looks at the cake splattered on the ground is her realizing everything has changed for her in regards to their relationship (splattered like Kenny was, where, once again, everything changed for her).

Her scene with Jamie was also very important. She’s always portrayed herself as the victim in regards to all the horrible things that have happened that could have been avoided if she’d only made better choices.

And that’s the point. Choices. He makes her realize that she needs to take agency in her life and own up to everything she’s done, good and bad. You can see how her conversation with Jamie is putting things in perspective for her. She’s needed to have this frank conversation with someone for a very long time.

Plus, I might add, she has acknowledged that her relationship with Villanelle is an affair. We know that Eve wasn’t referencing having sex with Hugo. It’s great to hear her admitting it out loud. She may have only kissed Villanelle, but we know that she was thinking about her when she had sex with Niko after receiving those flowers last season. And obviously sex with Hugo was her getting off while listening to Villanelle masturbate.

Her shaking that teddy bear and asking, frustrated, “what do you want from me?” is her seeming to try to find clarity in her relationship with Villanelle. We know exactly what Villanelle wants, but to Eve, it’s still ambiguous. I mean, Villanelle did shoot her and leave her for dead. Villanelle sending her gifts and leaving her messages shows that she’s forgiven Eve, but for Eve, that must be bewildering.

Her returning to Niko is an attempt to take ownership of her journey. She realizes that she needs to stop pitying herself and letting herself be pulled back and forth and merely reacting to everything around her. We don’t know what she was going to say to Niko. There’s a chance that she was going to come clean with him and tell him everything she’s done (if she can tell a workmate, can’t she tell Niko?)

We’ll obviously never know. Sandra’s acting blew me away as she witnesses Niko’s murder. Her look of disbelief and that little chuckle of, no way this is happening, it must be a joke, to her running and falling on her knees in absolute devastation...her acting was absolute perfection (as it has been all season, but especially in this moment). The Eve we know is now gone. Her final ties to normalcy have been severed, and she has lost everything in her life except Villanelle. Niko was symbolic of her humanity, and with it gone, god help Dasha. We’ve seen the fury and violence that Eve is capable of, and that was with a filter.

It’ll be fascinating to see how her newfound sense of self awareness and Niko’s death will effect how she moves forward in the series. I see her as a devastating force to be reckoned with.

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