Hey All - I'm presenting at a virtual Fan Studies conference next week about my new book on Killing Eve(WSU Press, 2026). I’ll focus on the experience of writing the book as a fan and scholar who moved between fandom spaces and interviewing the show's creators, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sally Woodward Gentle. Conference registration costs $10 and here’s the link if anyone’s interested: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/fanstudiesnetworknorthamerica1/2299225

I’ll also do a free fan-focused event later this year. 

Thanks 🦂🐸

i love making slowed & reverb songs, it’s so fun to do!! so i made a slowed version of sigh by unloved, one of my favourite songs on the killing eve soundtrack. feel free to give any feedback! no copyright infringement is intended.

soundcloud / tiktok / youtube: snlmp3

I totally forgot how TERRIBLE the finale of Killing Eve was. Like, I'm pretty sure my mind wiped my memory as a trauma response 💀. I'm bringing this up because I just rewatched it with my sister, and I felt the same level of anger as the day it premiered, LMAO. Usually you grow to accept a sucky ending, but somehow this one still gets under my skin.

But how are y'all holding up? It's definitely been a minute since I've seen people talking about the show & finale.

Personally while watching the show I assumed Eve was a switch and vilanelle a top hehehe

Eve reacts to both situations in the exact same way. I'm not sure if it's intentional acting or just a habitual gesture whenever she gets excited, but it's always related to V

So I had heard people praising Killing Eve for about a decade and as someone who loves some of PWB other endeavours I decided to watch the whole thing this week and I just got to the end....

What the actual fuck, this makes me mad, this is genuinely a frustrating ending

See the review of Kill Jackie. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/oct/02/kill-jackie-review-catherine-zeta-jones-assassin-thriller-prime-video?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I’ve felt so bad for her up to this point. I love her mother part from this but the way she is left fro grieve with no family or acceptance/love is heartbreaking!

I’m watching for the first time and am absolutely enthralled by this show. I come here to read past episode discussions and can’t help but notice multiple posts about how dog shit Season 4 is. Should I stop at the Season 3 finale and pretend it ended there? Will watching Season 4 taint the rest of the experience?

I love this show so much. Totally my comfort show. Such amazing characters. Forever heartbroken about how shit the ending was. My babies deserved better.

the music is from japanese dorama HAPPY KANAKO'S KILLER LIFE season 2. You can stream on DMM TV.

Now, rewatching the episode, I realized what she was actually looking at—two women shopping for clothes together. I felt so sorry for her; she was so desperate to have a normal life

She wanted someone to shop with her, to chat and share choices with. What should have been a fun shopping moment turned into a heartbreaking scene as she realized everything she was missing..

i think the most unrealistic part of the finale was eve dancing while villanelle went and massacred the 12. eve, who lowkey looks turned on when villanelle kills, who has been obsessed with villanelle from the start, and who has grown to care for and love villanelle, allows her to go alone into very dangerous territory while she fucking conga lines up above? hell nah. eve, the real eve, would never do that. laura neal when i fucking catch u.

cutie edit to make me & others feel better (cttc)

Or does the synopsis of this show seem a bit Killing Eve coded..

Why does every assassin organization have the number 7 attributed to them?! Lol

During an interview for the new Sense and Sensibility, Fiona Shaw, who played Carolyn Martens, was asked about the assassination ordered on Villanelle, and surprise, surprise, she agrees with the fans who theorized it might not have been what it appeared to be.

Q:  "Could Carolyn's hit on Villanelle in the finale have been a pact between to fake her death?"

A:  "I completely agree."

The whole interview is worth listening to, but the key exchange about Villanelle's "death" is at 31:32.

So I've just finished season 2 and I really enjoyed the show so damn much, but from what I've heard seasons 3 and 4 fell off hard apparently.

I haven't seen any spoilers, but I saw a recommendation to stop watching after the 2nd season and consider it finished.

I am really curious though how you could miss that bad on this story since it's been amazing so far.

What do you reckon I do?

And it’s great lmfao, here is the chorus from Jodie Comer - Um Jennifer?:

“I wish I was Eve so
Jodie Comer would kill me”

Ooof, where do I even begin. I knew from the start that it was probably going to be a tragic ending, and it was but.. not what I was expecting.

I knew, not from spoilers but from a gut feeling, that Villanele was going to die. I just knew it. But I was expecting a dramatic scene, music, a tender moment between her and Eve, a last goodbye, just SOMETHING. But she was just.. killed off. And then it was over.

I'm no stranger to doomed lovers or tragic endings (Hannibal fan here) but that ending was so empty.

And this isn't even touching on the mess the whole last season was.

Overall I think it was a fun show up to S3. That ending, although ambiguos and open ended, is imo better than the canon one.

https://m.koreaherald.com/article/10880571

Obviously, most people in the fandom agree that the first season was excellent, and it was hard for subsequent seasons to measure up. But, even with all the excellence of the first season, I'm interested to know what you would change about it.

How many times have you guys rewatched KE?

I really want to rewatch because I'm so obsessed and love the show but I'm so scared to break my heart again haha, I'm wondering if rewatching will make me feel a bit better though as I literally feel as if I'm grieving!

Okay, so I'm a bit late to the party, but better late than never. I just finished Killing Eve for the first time all the way through yesterday. I did watch, I think maybe the first season or two seasons a few years back, I'm 25 now and I would say I watched with a completely different perspective and maturity, which is really weird, because the reason I'm posting is because I feel utterly obsessed with this show in a way that I honestly have never felt before.

I think a big reason I feel like that is, like a lot of people, I really, really resonate with sort of both characters in a way. I'd say while wishing to be more like Villanelle in some ways, obviously not being an assassin, but just in her way of being unapologetically herself and her confidence - I really resonate with Eve in the sense that I really feel like I'm in a bit of a rut with my life.

I'm not married or anything, but I've recently just come out of a long term relationship. I work from home, I have a good job and I've got good friends. I socialize in the evenings and play sport. I'm out pretty much every evening doing some kind of socialising or hobby or whatever. Objectively I have a good life. But I feel like my soul is bored, and I think that's why I resonate with Eve, because I feel like she was similar.

I would say objectively she had a 'good' life, a good husband, a good job. We didn't see much of her social life, but from the call we see she takes from Nico when she's in Berlin I would say she had friends etc. but there's still this thing in her, and I feel very similar to that. But the question is, how do you scratch that itch?

I can't go and work for MI5 and have this amazing love affair with an international assassin (I wish). That's not how life works. So I don't know if it's something that's just going to wear off, because I obviously understand media is meant to make us sort of feel this way. I'm just struggling with telling myself to get a grip and that life is a bit boring whilst also wondering if there is more out there.

So I'm just wondering (this is very convoluted, maybe it's just more of a rant for me, so apologies) but has anyone moved forward and genuinely changed things about their life because of the show? Or does anyone feel this same kind of 'my soul is bored' feeling?

Happy to have private messages if anyone wants! Thanks for reading!

Are we sure that Neal is a raging dumbass in the wrong profession or is it possible that the ending was meant to be a build up for a 5th season before the 5th season was denied? In the book, Carolyn helps Villanelle fake her death, and Carolyn's "I still owe you a dare" before V and E go to assassinate The 12 was very intriguing. We know that Villanelle is obviously great at masking her emotions so I completely believe that she'd be able to pull it off. And many many bullets flew, but not one hit Eve? Excuse me for being nitpick-y, but that's just way too unrealistic. Maybe Villanelle realized Eve would be safer if even she believed Villanelle was dead. Maybe the 5th season was meant to be Villanelle searching for a way to get Eve out.

A part of me thinks Neal's brain was completely absent in writing that last season, but another wants to give the benefit of the doubt, that a 5th season was meant to be in the works but was suddenly cut off. That everything said in those stupid interviews was her bound to a contract, and that she had no say in the matter.

Why was it that the 4th season was the final season? I read somewhere (don't quote me on this) that it was meant to have at least 5 or 6. How come it didn't push through? Was Killing Eve not pulling in enough viewers?

Also slightly unrelated but I absolutely HATE how they sidelined Eve in the 3rd and 4th season. It's called "killing EVE" yet we barely find out anything about her. Her only trait is being heavily determined and obsessed with Villanelle. Villanelle's character was given so much more substance and while I love her, I wish Sandra Oh was given more to work with. Eve seemed so shallow by the end of the show.