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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

An unrepentant eff you: why I loved the audacious Killing Eve ending

Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh hugging by the Thames in Killing Eve.
A waste of everyone’s potential? Killing Eve. Photograph: David Emery/BBC America

If there is any decorum left in the world, the Game of Thrones showrunners will have just sent a gift hamper to Killing Eve. Because, just three years after Game of Thrones caught heat for delivering what was widely thought to be the worst series finale of all time, Killing Eve may well have just toppled it.

If you missed it, you missed one of the most abrupt endings to any series since Quantum Leap concluded with a brief caption explaining that the lead character never returned home (while also misspelling his name). The story, or what was left of it, was all cleaned up. Eve Polastri and Villanelle, having finally succumbed to the will-they-won’t-they tension, had defeated the bad guys and enjoyed a passionate kiss. And then, out of nowhere, Villanelle was shot and fell into the Thames and died, leaving Eve to scream in anguish as the words THE END filled the screen.

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