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Sunday, May 17, 2020

Killing Eve 3.4: Tip Toe Through the Tulips



Just catching up with Killing Eve, I just watched episode 3.4.  A powerful episode - like every episode this season, and every episode in the series, I suppose - with two very notable things:

1. Villanelle had one of her best killings, which is to say one of my favorites, of the season.  She strangles an old lady in her garden.  No big deal as a mode of killing, so why one of my favorites?  Because we're treated to Tiny Tim singing "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" as Villanelle kills her.  What's great about that?  Well, here's Tim's hit record.  A masterpiece, and just perfect accompaniment for a Villanelle kill.

2. But old ladies figure in all kinds of ways in this episode.  Villinalle's handler is an old lady, but we've seen her before.   Someone we haven't seen is an old bird in Poland, where Eve's husband Niko has decamped.  Eve is thrilled when he starts texting her.  But it's the Polish woman using Niko's phone.  And when Eve, thinking Niko wants her back, joyfully comes to Poland to reunite with him, she gets something quite else: the old lady killed Niko (assuming he's dead and not just badly wounded) with a pitchfork.  Another great killing scene, in a season in which Eve has witnessed all too many of them.

I should say that the music in this series, though always good, has really stepped up a good notch this season.   My only regret is that Tim is still not around to enjoy this renaissance.  He died in 1996.  Not killed, fortunately, by Villanelle, or anyone else.  Alas, he died of a heart attack, which he suffered when singing, yep, "Tip Toe Through the Tulips" in that wonderful falsetto.  Poetic justice?  Well, no, I wouldn't call his death justice - he didn't deserve to die - but there was something poetic in his dying when singing his signature song.  I wonder if that's what moved the produced of Killing Eve to feature it in this episode?

See also Killing Eve 3.1: Whew! ... Killing Eve 3.2: Bringing It Into Focus ... Killing Eve 3.3: The Third Time's the Charm

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