#Laura Neal

[broodpuff]

it’s been a while so I think I should say this again: FUCK Laura Neal

#fuckher #fuck her #she’s despicable #there was absolutely zero need for it #zero #fucking evil bitch #laura neal #killing eve #eve polastri #villanelle

[andhorsestoo]

I've been a diehard Killing Eve fan since the second season was airing. (Haven't been big on the BBC/AMC for long) and I can't wrap my head around Neal saying Eve and Villanelle couldn't have worked.

If you read the books, which I finally got around to this year, you'll find out that yes they can work. And they did, in Jennings' world.

Love usurps trials and co-exists with the perverse. The only thing it cannot withstand is ignorance.

#killing eve #laura neal #phoebe waller bridge #villanelle #eve polastri #emerald fennel

[wearevillaneve]

What we don't talk about in the KE fandom.

Easily one of the best deconstructions of the repulsive way Killing Eve destroyed the four seasons of goodwill it built up was written by Vulture essayist Angelica Jade-Bastien's "Killing Eve Chose Cruelty". In four words, Jade-Bastien captured why weeks after the last gruesome minutes of the show flickered away from the eyes of horrified viewers it continues to burn and sear into their minds.

The fourth installment to the series, but particularly its last two episodes, demonstrates how far the show has fallen from the dizzying heights of its premiere. Gone is the delicious fashion pivoting on moments of transformation in the manner of fairy tales. Gone is the supremely precise characterization, replaced with a confused internal logic that jockeys the characters according to the needs of its threadbare espionage plotting. Gone is the spry presentation, achieved through blocking, editing, and costume and production design. But most important, gone is the tense cat-and-mouse game between Villanelle (Comer) and Eve (Oh) that acted as the engine. Killing Eve is a study in how jumping from different showrunners each season can leave a series without a profound singular voice — and it is evidence that a shallow understanding of representation and the female gaze isn’t enough to create a memorably good, cohesive story that gives a damn about the women onscreen. It amounted to a finale that gave once perpetually ravenous viewers a paltry version of what they wanted before snatching even that away.

Read the entire essay and it makes you feel better about the nonsensical trash Laura Neal dreamed up one night over too much cheap beer. Jade-Bastien brings up the one problem that predates Neal and the KE fandom hasn't talked about nearly enough.

This is a topic that many in Killing Eve's non-White fandom are well aware of, yet many of their White peers are oblivious to. Racism? In my favorite show? How could that be? Real easy.

The obvious and overt racism of Donald Trump or Kanye West is in your face and it can't be easily ignored. The soft, but pernicious bigotry practiced by the KE writers' room was manifested by keeping Eve an enigma from beginning to end. She was never given a family or life outside of her job, marriage, and the obsession with Villanelle that cost her everything. It's an irritation to know less about Eve than we do about Gemma, Geraldine, or Pam, but that's where we are. Eve was an enigma because she was never written to be anything else. A decision was made by someone to ensure nothing more than the bare minimum would ever be known about Eve. She was given a name and the bare bones of a backstory, and that's all.

For many in the KE fandom the Villanelle solo episode is their absolute favorite. It's one of my least favorites because it made erasing Eve official as Villanelle forgets all about her and so much so in "End of Game" even her name isn't uttered.

KONSTANTIN: I don't think you really want this.

VILLANELLE: I want it!

KONSTANTIN: You know what it means? It means you have to leave everything, the clothes, apartment… and her.

VILLANELLE: I know.

"...and her." "Her" has a name and it is Eve, but to Heathcote that wasn't important. That was a disservice to Sandra Oh, the actress who brought Eve Polastri to life even though she was not allowed to be more than a one-dimensional cut-out of a character. Remember Oh was one of the two stars of the show. This was one of those rare occasions where the titular lead character gets less fleshed out than multiple supporting ones.

That's not accidental. It was deliberate and it robbed Eve of her agency and autonomy. She really was little more than "an Asian woman with amazing hair." Eve was the lone woman of color constantly reacting in a world of Whiteness. Phoebe Waller-Bridge boldly chose to be colorblind in casting Sandra Oh as the very British and very White Eve Polastri and deserves all the credit in the world for it. Unfortunately, when she left she didn't leave any instructions to her successors on what to do with Eve, so they all chose to do nothing. After the show ended some sought to scapegoat Sandra Oh for the lousy last season stating as an executive producer she must have approved the direction the show went when Suzanne Heathcote and Laura Neal became the lead writers. Nobody knows how much input Oh had into the writer's room, but if she did that means she went along with a noticeable drop in screen time and the complete absence of a backstory for Eve. It's hard to believe any actor would deliberately reduce their own role in just the third season of a show, but that's exactly what some KE fans believe Oh did. They're the same ones who say Villanelle needed a stand-alone episode to explore her history, but have no issue with Eve being devoid of a past. This isn't racism in the Killing Eve fandom. Most of the fans don't show up that way. What they do instead is fail to notice how little Eve there frequently is in Killing Eve. It's not necessarily racism, which is bad, but it is erasure, which isn't good.

#killing eve #eve polastri #killing eve analysis #where is eve? #yeah that happened #sandra oh #villanelle #phoebe waller bridge #suzanne heathcote #emerald fennell #laura neal #new york magazine #ke s4 #supporting characters #i don't want to call it racism #but it’s there #sandra oh is my eve polastri

[crownspeaksblog]

In this house we hate writers who fuck up something good by trying to change the trajectory of the story set up previously..

#I'm still upset about sally wainwright was like actually anne doesn't love ann and mariana is her true love... #also season 2 focusing on literary every fucking thing other than the ann(e)s!!! #who gives a fuck about the coal and the business it's literally the most boring part.. #also Laura Neal being like eve is free now... bitch eve is just as crazy as villanelle that's what i got from the previous seasons.. #and season 4 focusing on the 12! seriously who likes that part of the show!??? #gentleman jack #the ann(e)s #anne lister #ann walker #sally wainwright #gentleman jack season 2 #killing eve #eve polastri #villanelle #villaneve #killing eve season 4 #Laura Neal #wlw #wlw shows #bad writing

[catlovinglou]

I've just noticed that even though Killing Eve was praised for being a queer show - almost every single queer character was killed.

1) Anna

2) Nadia

3) Paul

4) Fernanda

5) Hélène

6) Felix

7) May

8) Bill

9) Villanelle😭

The only queer characters I can think of that survived are Eve and Gunn(who was left half dead on an island)

#sooooo yeah #huh 🤔 #lesbian #gay #lgbt #lgbtq #wlw #sapphic #eve polastri #killing eve #villanelle #laura neal #pride #pride month #villaneve

[topeve]

if i hear One More Person come after sandra knowing DAMN well that neither her nor Jodie will be able to voice their unfiltered thoughts about the killing eve finale for years to come …….. i’m about to commit murder

#killing eve #eve polastri #villanelle #sandra oh #jodie comer #Laura neal #killing eve finale

[thestarlightforge]

Shit like Killing Eve is genuinely why like 70% of my current watch list is modern Star Trek & low-key Paramount+ remakes/reboots. Because THEY don’t

PUNISH ME.

The MOST PAIN I’VE FELT from a modern Trek show is a tie b/w MICHAEL & SPOCK’S GOODBYE, which was BEAUTIFUL and NOBODY DIED; ICHEB’S DEATH, which was VERY SAD but THOUGHTFUL and FORMATIVE FOR SEVEN, who I LOVE; and HEMMER’S DEATH, which was TRAGIC, but HEY, at least HE’S been BACK.

And CALL iCarly JUVENILE IF YOU WANT TO, but Freddie & Carly are HEALTHY & TOGETHER, Carly’s BFSS (Best Friend Since Sam) is a black, bi/pan icon, and at least HARPER is ALIVE, OKAY?

Like. Do I WISH I could enjoy shows like Killing Eve—with MASTERFUL ACTORS like Sandra & Jodie & Fiona giving it their all, plus some writers & directors who DO GET IT? OFC. Would I trade all but the last 30 seconds of the finale for almost anything? NO.

But is it WORTH IT?

IDFK AT THE END OF THE DAY 🫠

#lgbtqia #bury your gays #killing eve #killing eve season 4 #killing eve spoilers #villanelle #villaneve #eve polastri #laura Neal #eve x villanelle #villanelle x eve #star trek snw #star trek strange new worlds #star trek discovery #Spock snw #hemmer #michael burnham #star trek snw spoilers #Spock #star trek spoilers #Star Trek #icheb #star trek voyager #seven of nine #iCarly #paramount+ #harper bettencourt #carly x freddie #creddie

[someone-to-watch-movies-with]

The Killing Eve series finale, as told by 1x08.

I originally tweeted this as @ke_sufferer. Follow me on Twitter to share in my eternal outrage over how this show ended.

#fuck you laura neal #killing eve #laura neal #villaneve #ke memes #ke meme #ke edit

[root-050313]

Carolyn (4x04): "I often wonder if you remember the first time we met? You know there was the time in prison, of course, in Russia, but before that too. At your orphanage, when you were 9 years old.

Oksana prison record (1x05)

At 9, Oksana was in a juvenile delinquents centre, not in an orphanage. We all know season 3 fucked up the entire Oksana's past references from season 1, but c'mom... What was the point of that dialogue without further explanation? None. Like a lot of scenes in season 4.

#that's what happens when you change showrunners every f*cking season #and give the final season to a complete idiot #great idea sally woodward gentle

#killing eve #killing eve season 4 #killing eve season 1 #ke rewatch #villanelle #jodie comer #carolyn martens #fiona shaw #phoebe waller bridge #laura neal #sally woodward gentle

[drdesperatepigeon]

Well... when you kill someone in your show and you HAVE TO explain it. Then it is already feels like a big NO. But WHEN YOU explain it like " i try not to see it as a death" that's the point where you (should) KNOW that you made a huge mistake you just don't have the integrity to admit it. When even YOU don't want to see it as a death...Sooo tRiUmPhAnT.

The fact that it is pre-recorded and they were already this defensive towards the ending BEFORE it even aired... it's like you close your eyes and tense your body before you crash instead of swerving the other way and avoid an accident.

#pls stop #killing eve #killing eve spoilers #villaneve #killing eve 4x08 #villanelle #eve polastri #killing eve finale #ke spoilers #laura neal #stop talking #triumph

[ladytrash613]

this fucking LA Times interview with Laura Neal, nah bitch i see you swerving from "rebirth" to "cyclical" and "re-centering." She say Eve is different than Walter White bc her journey cyclical with a re-centering at the end. No bitch, you made that up. No one sees that but you. There is no episode before the season opener that you wrote which implies or points towards this. No one who ever laid eyes on this show thinks Eve stray too far and desires to center herself. She wants blood and sex with her girlfriend. At the end of S3 she still express fear about that shit but she said she dont want that normal shit anymore and all i see in my future IS YOUUUUU. fuck off b. bye bye to your homophobic sexism. I say that bc yall literally was scared to show gay sex on tv and have a milf murder and like it no qualms. WHY ARE U FEAR GAY

#killing eve #villanelle #eve polastri #killing eve spoilers #laura neal #fuck laura neal #villaneve

[alrightyfruits]

Laura where you at, just wanna talk!

#cosmically 💀 #is she okay #laura neal #killing eve

[wearevillaneve]

April 10 will always be Fuck Laura Neal Day.

#killing eve #ke s4 #laura neal #the real bad guy #fuck laura neal #ke s4 sucked #and it hurts #never forgive #never forget #killing eve twitter #i feel your pain

[tv-moments]

Killing Eve

Season 4, “Don't Get Attached”

Director: Emily Atef

DoP: Julian Court

#Killing Eve #Don't Get Attached #Killing Eve S04E05 #Season 4 #Emily Atef #Julian Court #Fiona Shaw #Carolyn Martens #Laura Neal #Georgia Lester #BBC America #IMG #Sid Gentle Films #BBC America Original Production #Endeavor Content #TV Moments #TV Series #TV Show #television #TV #TV Frames #cinematography #27 March #2022

[y0ureonyourownkid]

here to say i hate laura neal and she better sleep with one eye open

#killing eve #laura neal #villanelle

[topeve]

Killing Eve season 5 petition

hey everyone! please sign and share this petition to try to fix this mess that laura neal has created. we can get the ball rolling while the attention is still there!

#petitions #killing eve #eve polastri #villanelle #sandra oh #Jodie comer #laura neal #phoebe Waller bridge #killing eve season 5 #villaneve