Killing Eve (3×02) Management Sucks Review

For our review of the last episode of Killing Eve, click here.

Synopsis: Eve and Carolyn are reeling; Eve strikes up an unlikely alliance with Kenny’s colleagues at the Bitter Pill; Villanelle finds that management isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. (TV Guide)

Worth it only to see Villanelle dressed as a surly clown.

Management Sucks started with Eve having an awkward encounter with a man in the rain (the founder and editor of the site Kenny worked for) as she entered Kenny’s funeral. Her annoyance continued with everyone who thought that Kenny jumped off the building. Eve’s attempts to look into what Kenny was working on were thwarted by his boss. She hid from her feelings in a washroom stall (still had Kenny’s phone). Kenny’s sister Geraldine (Gemma Whelan) was present as well, recounting a story of her and Konstantin (who was also there) when she was younger. Meanwhile, Carolyn (who also thought Kenny jumped to maybe stop Eve) was Carolyn as she couldn’t quite take the mood of the scene. She wanted to talk to Eve who wanted none of her.

Villanelle was still hanging around Barcelona, moving into the new place Dasha got for her. She was to be given a new recruit to oversee so she could prove herself to the higher ups (she wasn’t thrilled with what management would entail). Those same higher ups wanted Konstantin to hang around London longer to keep an eye on Carolyn. Meanwhile, Carolyn surprised everyone by how quickly she put her stern face back on and went back to work, immediately at odds with Paul (Steve Pemberton) who was concerned about her wellbeing. She eventually caught up with Eve at the restaurant. Carolyn knew Kenny didn’t jump but didn’t want to tip anyone off that she was looking into it. She tried to manipulate Eve by showing her a photo of Villanelle’s latest kill, however, she didn’t seem to go for it (but we know she’ll inevitably be pulled back in if not by that then by something else).

As Eve tried to unlock Kenny’s phone, it got calls from an unknown number and texts, It was Kenny’s boss who knew that Eve had the phone (he guessed she did) and wanted her to bring it back in. Once she came in, Eve was interrogated about what Kenny might have been working on. She didn’t know but was willing to exchange the phone for his files (which were not going to be easy to get). Meanwhile, Villanelle was in France with her recruit Felix (Stefan Iancu). He looked very young so she was understandably skeptical of him and his so called experience. They seemed to bond on their past experience with love or therelackof (obvious reference to her and Eve). For their next job, they dressed up as clowns (Jodie Comer was hilarious) for a birthday party. What was supposed to be a simple job wasn’t so simple, leaving Villanelle to clean it up.

With nowhere to go, not being allowed to work and not wanting to be with her daughter, Carolyn coped by sitting in her car and listening to sad music while eating sandwiches. She would actually express some emotion about her predicament, balancing grief while trying to solve Kenny’s murder without being allowed to. Eve later came to her house for answers for which Carolyn did not have much. Little did they know that their conversation was being recorded by a fridge magnet that Konstantin gave Geraldine as a gift.

The episode ended with Konstantin showing up unannounced in Barcelona and was not well-received by Villanelle. He knew she was back with the twelve and warned her that she was not safe and that Eve was still alive which shook her.

Everybody seems to be back in to things now but it will definitely be interesting to see where there new perspective after Kenny’s tragic death takes them this time around. Kudos goes to Fiona Shaw for a spectacular performance as Carolyn, showing some depth behind the boss-ness.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.