“Killing Eve’s” Queerness Was More Fun When It Was Subtext
. Since we live in a straight world that simultaneously ignores and threatens us, exaggerated emotion and action is only reasonable., the critically acclaimed BBC television drama adapted by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, dramatizes the three stages of queer hyperbole — living, screaming, and dead — by making its central tension the mutually obsessive relationship between a high-femme assassin, Villanelle , and a high-strung MI5 operative, Eve Polastri .
It does indeed feel like the show is not our “sexy secret anymore.” In Season 1, Eve investigates a series of highly stylized killings throughout Europe, intrigued by the idea that the assassin is a woman. Villanelle, in disguise, first spots Eve on the job is equally intrigued, and starts leaving clues specifically for Eve.
Though Eve makes a political point in suggesting that the new contract killer they’re searching for is someone likely to go unnoticed, namely, a middle-aged woman of color, the characters who take up the most space this season are men. There is the murderous tech mogul, Aaron Peel , set up to be Villanelle’s psychopathic foil, and even less deservedly, a romantic foil.
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