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Killing Eve: Episode Analysis

*SPOILERS*

Season 1, Episode 4 - Sorry Baby

We start the episode at Bill’s funeral where Frank is speaking in behalf of Bill’s colleagues. Frank’s speech about Bill is particularly comfortable as Frank gets everything wrong about him, Frank says;

Bill’s colleagues “really really liked him” - there’s absolutely no sentiment in this and only says Bill’s colleagues really likes him, he doesn’t even include himself in that statement. He’s just saying the most generic things you could possibly say in a eulogy about someone you didn’t know at all.

Bill was “a very loud man” - not appropriate to say at a funeral at all really, he’s insulting him more than anything.

Bill was “a man who had time for everybody” - Eve say this isn’t correct, “no he didn’t”.

Bill “was truly a traditional man” - from Bill’s conversation with Eve about kinks, falling in love with many men and marrying his wife because he “really wanted a baby”, we know Bill was definitely not traditional

He continues to talk about Bill’s leadership and how he’d be lucky to “get a chocolate finger by lunch” because Bill “liked his biscuit Wednesdays” - again not appropriate and more of an insult than anything.

Not only does he get everything wrong but it was evident in S1E1, when Frank wasn’t invited to Bill’s birthday karaoke and Bill wanted to call Frank a “dick swab”, that they were not friends at all.

When we see Villanelle back in her apartment, she’s decorated with a big cake and balloons for Konstantin’s ‘birthday’. She did this big display to try to distract Konstantin from the fact that she had been “naughty” and gone against what he had ordered, and she did a similar thing in S1E1 when she asked him if he’d had a haircut.

The cake and balloons is also exactly what Anna said in S1E7, that Villanelle did for her after killing her husband, Max, she said “there were balloons everywhere and a huge cake and she was jumping around”. We can see that there is another parallel between these two moments; that Villanelle is pleased to have gotten rid of the person (Bill) who was standing in the way of her getting close to Eve, just as she got rid of Anna’s husband who was standing in the way of her getting closer to Anna.

We also get another example of Villanelle not just putting on a mask when shes in disguise, but her completely inhabiting whoever she’s disguising herself as. When they go into Villanelle’s bathroom to talk, Konstantin asks her “who are you?”, she says that she’s “Konstantin” but when he rips off her beard, she replies that she’s “Villanelle”. Konstantin knows he can’t speak to Villanelle properly until she’s fully out of character, which also serves to show Konstantin and Villanelle’s bond - he doesn’t just get angry with her, but instead he knows what she’s doing and goes along with the rules of her ‘game’

During Eve and Niko’s argument after Bill’s funeral about Eve being in danger at work, there’s a poster behind Niko in one of the shots. The poster seemed to be not only an odd choice of artwork for Eve and Niko’s to have in their house, but also that the poster is only in frame in one shot of Niko - right after Eve berates him saying, “I know you care. We all know you care. Sometimes I think it’s all you have”.

The artwork depicts a man inside a black bird/crow’s beak, trying to hold the bird’s beak open. This imagery seems fitting for this moment as Niko is like the man and Eve is like the bird, with Niko desperately trying to keep their life and marriage together and to not to get swallowed, but Eve ultimately ends up ‘consuming’ their marriage and crushing Niko along the way. The moment in the poster imagery though, is Niko not yet being ‘swallowed up’, as he gets by Season 3, but him still desperately trying to make their normal life work, cope with Eve’s behaviour and keep her safe.

After searching for the poster, I found that it’s a poster by the Polish artist Andrzej Pagowski for the 1985 Martin Scorsese film, ‘After Hours’. I’ve never seen the film myself but after googling it I found that the main character’s goal is just to return home despite a number of events happening through the night (just as Niko is just trying to fight for his life with Eve, despite Villanelle and all the danger she brings). The film also has a heavy theme of emasculation, which is also fitting as Eve essentially just emasculated Niko for showing his emotions of care and concern for her; where stereotypically men aren’t supposed to be vulnerable and show emotions, Eve has just insulted him for having and showing them.

When Eve goes to the butchers to meet with Carolyn, to tell Carolyn the evidence that Frank is the mole, there is a close up of a sheep statue that’s sitting outside the doorway of the shop. It’s this conversation that Eve has with Carolyn, that leads to Frank’s capture and questioning in the safe house. In this way, as soon as Eve and Carolyn have had their conversation, Frank has now become a ‘lamb for slaughter’. Eve says to Carolyn in S1E5 that Villanelle “took my phone it has the interview with Frank on it. And she’ll have the location of the safe house”. If Eve had never recorded the conversation they had with Frank at the safe house he may not have been killed as there was no proof that Frank told them anything about The Twelve and Villanelle also might not have been able to find the location of the safe house from Eve’s phone.

The sheep could also be symbolism referencing Frank being a ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’. Since Frank is the mole, he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing as he’s been collecting information from MI5 amongst those who trust him and giving that information to The Twelve.

The symbolism could also be that Eve is the ‘lamb for slaughter’, as she’s getting deeper and deeper into her investigation and this breakthrough with Frank is what leads Eve, and subsequently Villanelle, to finding out that an organisation called The Twelve even exists.

The sausages in the butchers counter also foreshadows Frank’s death and castration, as well as when we find about Anna’s husband’s death and castration later on.

Villanelle is now working with Diego and Nadia after she was told in S1E3 that she isn’t allowed to work alone anymore and she arrives “a bit late” because she stopped to “deliver a package”, which was delivering Eve’s suitcase to Eve’s house. She asks Diego is he checked the sights on the gun, he cockily replies that he used it to shoot a politician so it works, but Villanelle was right he should have checked the sights because when she tries to shoot Frank she misses.

When Nadia chose Villanelle by shooting Diego in their three way stand off, it’s not really surprising that Nadia chose Villanelle over Diego. Diego wasn’t just incredibly annoying and condescending; but we saw that Nadia still liked Villanelle as when Villanelle grabbed Nadia’s wrists before they went into ‘Frank’s house’, Nadia touched her wrist where Villanelle had just held them and looked over to Villanelle walking towards the house.

We can also see how much more Villanelle considers Eve to be “special” than both Anna and Nadia, both people who Villanelle had been in ‘relationships’ with. Unlike Anna and Nadia, Eve isn’t nearly as easily manipulated. Anna must have been fairly easy to persuade into a relationship (considering all the letters that were sent between her and Villanelle), despite her having a husband and Villanelle almost certainly being underage at the time (and even if Villanelle wasn’t underage the relationship was certainly inappropriate as Anna was Villanelle’s teacher and much older than her). Nadia also only needed a little bit of persuasion for her to kill Diego and choose Villanelle, despite the fact that Villanelle betrayed Nadia by taking her place as the person who The Twelve was going to break out from prison. Whereas Eve doesn’t fall for any of Villanelle’s manipulation but sees straight through it, like in S1E5 when Villanelle says she’s trapped and doesn’t want to kill anymore, Eve says what Villanelle is saying is “bullshit”. Eve stabbing Villanelle in S1E8 shocked Villanelle, but Villanelle later tells Gabriel in S2E1 she did “to show how much she cared”, as if admiring what Eve did and considering it an act of love that no one else has done for her.

After Villanelle has convinced Nadia to trust her and then runs her over with the van, the camera shots visually show us Villanelle’s skill as a manipulator and ability to turn the tables on a situation. When Villanelle first meets Diego and spots Nadia in the wing-mirror of the van, it is Nadia in the front seat looking behind her to Villanelle - Nadia is in the position of power and has Diego’s protection, so Villanelle is outnumbered if she were to try and kill them. Then when Villanelle is running Nadia over with the van, we now get a shot of Villanelle from the wing-mirror - now Villanelle is in the position of power, she has turned Nadia against Diego and tricked Nadia into trusting her.

You can read my previous Killing Eve posts here:-

First Introduction to Villanelle

First Introduction to Eve

S1, E1 - Nice Face

S1, E2 - I’ll Deal With Him Later

S1, E3 - Don’t I Know You?

S1, E5 - I Have a Thing about Bathrooms

S1, E6 - Take Me To The Hole!

S1, E7 - I Don’t Want to Be Free

S1, E8 - God, I’m Tired

S2, E1 - Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?

S2, E2 - Nice and Neat

S2, E3 - The Hungry Caterpillar

S2, E4 - Desperate Times

S2, E5 - Smell Ya Later

S2, E6 - I Hope You Like Missionary!

S2, E7 - Wide Awake

S2, E8 - You’re Mine

S3, E1 - Slowly Slowly Catchy Monkey

S3, E2 - Management Sucks

S3, E3 - Meetings Have Biscuits

S3, E4 - Still Got It

S3, E5 - Are You From Pinner? [Part 1]

S3, E5 - Are You From Pinner? [Part 2]

S3, E6 - End of Game

S3, E7 - Beautiful Monster

S3, E8 - Are You Leading or Am I? [Part 1]

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crypticpatterns · 5 years

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I have an updated version here, with some errors corrected and now including season three.

Alrighty, I've watched seasons one and two of Tangled: The Series! Here's my guide to non-filler and filler episodes. When I watch season three I'll link a guide to that at the end of this post.

Any episodes with an asterisk (*) are there for character development or introductions and not necessarily for plot reasons. They can technically be skipped, but I highly recommend watching them so you'll have a more complete understanding of the show. Especially the Cassandra episodes. Just trust me.

Personally, I would recommend watching the show in its entirety, since even the filler episodes come back as references later on. In my opinion, the filler in season two works way better than in season one, partly because most filler episodes are actually part of larger arcs that all take place in one same location, among other reasons. However, I do understand that filler can get super obnoxious, so I haven't included episodes that are irrelevant, even if I found them enjoyable personally.

I have included a list of the filler episodes along with short summaries so you can choose if one intrigues you enough to check it out.

WATCH

Tangled: Before Ever After (This movie is separate from the main series on Disney+, but is absolutely necessary to watch as it sets up the main conflict.)

S1 E1

S1 E4* - Cassandra's character

S1 E5* - Cassandra's character

S1 E6* - Lance is introduced

S1 E8

S1 E12* - Two orphan girls introduced

S1 E13

S1 E16

S1 E17

S1 E18* - Rapunzel's character

S1 E19

S1 E20

S1 E21

S1 E22

S1 E23

S1 E24

S1 E25

S2 E1

S2 E2

S2 E5

S2 E6* - Cass and Rapunzel's friendship

S2 E7* - Little orphan girls return

S2 E8

S2 E15

S2 E16

S2 E17* - Cass and Rapunzel's friendship

S2 E19

S2 E20

S2 E21

S2 E22

S2 E23

S2 E24

FILLER

S1 E2 - Rapunzel makes an enemy and tries to reconcile their differences. The Gopher Grab is introduced.

S1 E3 - Eugene tries to join the Royal Guard while Rapunzel prepares for a royal portrait.

S1 E7 - Eugene helps the king pull a prank against his greatest rival in an attempt to impress him. Rapunzel tries to learn how to pull a prank.

S1 E9 - During Corona's equivalent to Valentine's Day, Rapunzel finds out Cassandra has an admirer and tries, to Cass' chagrin, to set up a double date with her and Eugene.

S1 E10 - Rapunzel has 24 hours to prove Attila the Bun's innocence in a break-in at the Sweet Shoppe.

S1 E11 - Pascal runs away when he feels he doesn't belong in Rapunzel's new life. (We learn how Pascal and Rapunzel met.)

S1 E14 - A new horse arrives in town who rivals Maximus' popularity. (Lady Caine returns.)

S1 E15 - Rapunzel plans to celebrate her mother's birthday by watching a rare meteor shower together, but their plans go awry when the Queen's sister arrives.

S2 E3 - Rapunzel tries to inspire an old hero of Vadaros to defend the city from Weasel.

S2 E4 - Rapunzel and Cass hold competing Goodwill Festivals in Vadaros.

S2 E9 - Rapunzel and the gang are stranded on an island. Pascal is mistaken for royalty by the native people.

S2 E10 - Hookfoot falls in love with a mermaid but finds out there's more to her backstory than meets the eye.

S2 E11 - Rapunzel finds an idol on the island that allows her to see her family and friends back in Corona. Everyone tries out the idol and sees their dreams come true: but the idol is more dangerous than it seems...

S2 E12 - Eugene and Max are "rescued" by every villain who wants them dead--including Weasel, Lady Caine, and the Stabbington Brothers.

S2 E13 - Rapunzel is cursed by Vigor and desperately tries to counter the curse so she can continue on her journey.

S2 E14 - Rapunzel works with Stalyan to find the Eye of Pincosta and free Eugene from his punishment for stealing it years ago.

S2 E18 - The gang see Hookhand on tour. Hookfoot, however, is not so excited to see his brother, since Hookhand never missed a chance to make fun of Hookfoot's dream growing up--dancing.

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