All About Eve.
8 Episodes. Starring: Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, Harriet Walter, Owen McDonnell & Kim Bodnia. Creator: Phoebe Waller-Bridge & Suzanne Heathcote.
You'll float too. Send in the clown. Season 3 of 'Killing Eve' is here and Villanelle is blowing circus balloons like Pennywise until it all POPS! Bullets popped through 'Greys Anatomy' star Sandra Oh's character on the eve of this season in Roman ruins and now as soon as you see the classic typography titles of MOSCOW, 1979 (or BLACKFRIARS. Or BORED) you know it's on like back then, as the 'V' for vendetta drips. It's a nice day for a white wedding. So much so our muse could have had four like Hugh Grant, "they are so fun". But you best believe there will be a funeral to begin this speech as you tap your glasses with the same forks you stick in all that's about to be done. But what about when the car window becomes frosted like the screen shot of the fellow best of British, 'Black Mirror' on reflection? We may wish for a Season 3 of the best comedy 'Fleabag' like we wish we could be watching 'No Time To Die' right now Bond...James Bond (this writer has made it this far without hearing what I'm sure is Billie Eilish's iconic theme. Saving it for when we finally get back to theatres and I can hear it for the first time over those iconic 007 title sequences). But how about a bus stop end of the line easter egg that is worth the wait like when then two come at once. And at least in this time of Corona we have the holy trinity of a third 'Eve' for Phoebe Waller-Bridge's scripted big-three brought forward early like 'The Last Dance' of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls between ESPN and Netflix. Based on Luke Jennings noir novella like a 007 spy serial in a Big Smoke of trading postcards like passports, even the MI6 can't stop this. As Liverpool's own Jodie Comer is back as the accented and multi-faceted Villanelle. As Sandra Oh (who was born on the same day as this writer. JUST SAYIN') tries to get further in this mind dialled M for murder's greys anatomy. Surgical with this.
Stoy crying. You saw Oh back as Eve chopping onions in the first photos and trailers as a sous chef. Spoiler alert this is not for the third season of 'Killing' that's truly the charm. As oddly as endearingly infectious as Kim Bodnia's laugh. HA! Some critics said this started like a dead donkey out the gates. I say like Stella it was just getting its groove back. And what a groove as Villanelle goes back to her home like Mother Russia and dances around the dinner table to Elton John with 'Crocodile Rock' shoes (just for the record. This is me everytime our national treasure, 'Rocketman' comes on. Its not just the kid in those Dame Edna glasses doing his best impression like Taron Egerton). It's about to burn the house down like the roof was on fire. And for all Villanelle wants to get out the game this season like a lockdown like lockout sports syndicate, you can't hate on this compelling character. Especially when she goes all Tiger Woods with the iron...or is that Michelle Wie? Good enough to play with the boys. Better in fact as she swings you out the bunker. What a shot. And what a camera capture on the train home, cycling through all the emotions like a runaway train does landscapes. All before descending into a tunnel of darkness. Train acting, headphones on and immersed hasn't been this lonely and honed since Scarlett Johansson was 'Lost In Translation' on a Shinkansen alone to Kyoto. Bullet time in this murder matrix indeed. And how about Eve? It's not all about Villanelle. As in losing everything she used to love and everything short of her mind and where her heart is left now, Sandra Oh immerses us with the sinking and submerging pressure guages Eve is under like a crushing boot sole to the ribcage. Coming up for air only for someone to put a garden fork in it all like it really is done. What a hoe! And this wrong tool ain't being misogynistic. But blood in the eye, this dance between Polastri and Okana-from the local bus, to the next train, to the literal waltz-is like no other. Losing nothing in their chemistry steps. But is this their last one?
Cake on the nose. That's where you recognise 'Harry Potter' and 'Fleabag' star Fiona Shaw from. 'Three Men and a Little Lady'. Thinking the 'Magnum P.I.' of Tom Selleck was trying to seduce her before coming out the closet. But I must ask you a question. Have you ever seen someone in such command. From saving the day in 'Little Lady', to being the wonder woman here, Fiona is a sure thing. She might just be the best thing about this series at times...because this is the role of her life and it's all in her own making. A simmering cauldron of repressed rage about to boil over either before this eight wonder ends or her stay at home daughter asks what's for dinner or who's coming. Guess...the only one more scene stealing than Shaw is Scandinavian drama veteran Kim Bodnia and that classic cackle. Even with Owen McDonnell's Niko returning for a stunning spell, or 'Downton Abbey' DBE, Harriet Walter's aging assassin in full manipulating mode. Catfishing the hell out of these plot twists like this writer was at the star of the year by a nice lady from Phoenix, Arizona who sounded a little too French (not that there's anything wrong with that) to me when I finally got her on the phone (LOL). 'The Bridge' star and Monte-Carlo Television Award winner bridges the gap and really brings a powerhouse performance to the penultimate episode, becoming an iconic character in the process. And with more plot points that twist and turn in this black comedy thriller we can't wait until this Tower Bridge closing draws and goes forth for one more shot in the Big Smoke and the rest of the world once the borders reopen like a license to kill, permission to shoot. At that hollow point, then whether it's the opera of opening your balcony windows to the Italian Riviera in reaction, or the dramatics staged on the Royal Opera one in finale curtain, this thing will sing. And on the eve of the next season, you know Oh and Comer are about to make a killing. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Fleabag', 'Greys Anatomy', 'The Night Manager'.
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