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Killing Eve completed

 Okay, gave up on Season Four and jumped to the last episode, which was a little better.  Eve and Villanelle become lovers of a sort after stealing camper from perfect hippie couple.  They join forces to kill "The Twelve," the shadowy nefarious group that started in Germany years earlier.  Carolyn (M16) is also after "The Twelve" as is Helene, only Helene has been killed.

The Twelve are meeting on a tourist boat that's hosting a wedding in the ballroom while they meet in another.  Eve presides at the wedding -- they mistake her for the cleric -- while Villanelle kills all twelve of the twelve in about one minute.  Clear demonstration that the twelve meant nothing--we have no real reason to care if they live or die.

Happy ending?  No.  Carolyn knows what's up.  She also knows that Villanelle is the murderer of her son.  So, after Villanelle wipes out the twelve, Carolyn has a sniper shoot Villanelle.  She dies in the Thames (both she and Eve fall off the boat.) Eve survives, as does Carolyn, the ultimate survivor.

All in all, weak.

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