What I’m Watching: Killing Eve (Season Premiere)

Killing Eve: Season 4, Episode 1 “Just Dunk Me” (B+)

It’s been almost two years since this show’s third season finished, and I honestly can’t remember much of it. But each season does seem to start with Villanelle in a new place under an assumed identity carrying out her latest con. In this case, however, she appeared to be most dedicated to having Eve recognize that she could now be a good person in service of God. Dunking and nearly drowning her friend-slash-lover and then hallucinating a weird devil-Jesus hybrid only this show could imagine indicates that she’s likely headed down a familiarly violent path. Eve, on the other hand, has changed, slapping Villanelle when she came to see her and shocking Konstantin by showing up to shoot him in the hand. Her new partnership is working out well, making both for an effective duo and plenty of double entendres when they’re not physically wrestling out in public. Carolyn seems beyond bored by her new job assignment, and offering to pay Eve to get her to do more research into the latest series of murders suggests that she’s just as in need of something worthwhile to do and to keep her busy as she is in need of the information she might produce. This is the show’s final season and I honestly don’t know what’s coming next, but following this opening with all of its characters scattered all over the place, I think it should a fun and typically twisted ride with some great interactions and explosive moments along the way.