Oh no, they've 殺人d Eve! TV's most stylish show is 支援する...with a bludgeon in place of its かみそり wire, 令状s CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

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殺人，大当り Eve

判決: Dead-冷静な／正味の thriller loses its flair?

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Gone is the pink nylon tutu with bovver boots, the child's 風刺漫画 pyjamas ― and there's nothing remotely like the Bavarian bodice worn with a fluffy pig-直面する mask.?

Instead, the first time we see ロシアの 暗殺者 Villanelle, as 殺人，大当り Eve returns for a third series, she's wearing a sober 黒人／ボイコット morning 控訴. Later, she dons beige 倉庫／問屋 全体にわたるs.?

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) appears to have 溝へはまらせる／不時着するd her dress sense. And with it, much of the 教祖的指導力 of this violently chic show evaporates.

殺人，大当り Eve is 利用できる 経由で streaming online ビデオ from Bank Holiday Monday. Pictured: Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh in the new series

テレビ視聴者s of the BBC's on-需要・要求する iPlayer service will get a chance to 裁判官 for themselves a 十分な week before TV fans: 殺人，大当り Eve is 利用できる 経由で streaming online ビデオ from Bank Holiday Monday, while the first episode won't be broadcast on BBC1 until Sunday, April 19.?

No spoilers here, but while the 予算, 場所s and cast are as みごたえのある as?ever, the script really isn't.

That's not so much the fault of newcomer Suzanne Heathcote, who takes over 令状ing 義務s from Emerald Fennell ― more a 欠如（する） of direction with the whole show.?

Emerald herself was 手渡すd 単独の 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of the typewriter after the show's creator, Phoebe Waller-橋（渡しをする）, left to work on the next 社債 movie, No Time To Die.

And even Waller-橋（渡しをする） didn't invent Villanelle and her nemesis, obsessive MI6 スパイ／執行官 Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) ― that was 小説家 and ballet critic Luke Jennings.?

Villanelle (Jodie Comer) appears to have 溝へはまらせる／不時着するd her dress sense. And with it, much of the 教祖的指導力 of this violently chic show evaporates

The baton has been passed from 手渡す to 手渡す more times than a bundle of brown paper in a game of Pass The 小包.

Compare that to the sleek and 焦点（を合わせる）d Line Of 義務, which has always remained under the tight 支配（する）／統制する of its creative genius Jed Mercurio.?

殺人，大当り Eve hasn't 正確に／まさに become unrecognisable ― it just no longer looks like its authentic self. We still get the sudden, 予期しない 爆破s of 暴力／激しさ, the deafening soundtrack of obscure pop gems, the lavish 始める，決める-pieces and glamorous 背景s.?

But these are a mere imitation of elements that made the first series the most talked-about television show in years.?

If you were （麻薬）常用者d when it first appeared in 2018 ― and you stuck with it through the uneven, hot-and-冷淡な story?line last year ― then you'll still care what happens to Villanelle.?

You will want her to be happy, even though the only pastime that brings her joy 伴う／関わるs 狙撃, stabbing, braining and skewering people she's never met.?

Sandra Oh is such a terrific actress she can make you feel the pulse of her 失望させるd 怒り／怒る, even when she's just crimping pastry in a Chinese kitchen

But if you can't remember her history, there's nothing left now to keep you 利益／興味d. Once, Villanelle was a 集まり of 相反する emotions that she couldn't understand; now, she appears empty.?

No wonder her love of designer 着せる／賦与するs has evaporated. It's far easier to care about Eve, 大部分は because Sandra Oh is such a terrific actress.?

She can make you feel the pulse of her 失望させるd 怒り／怒る, even when she's just crimping pastry in a Chinese kitchen.?

By the time she takes a hatchet to some chicken carcasses, you'll be flinching.?

Kim Bodnia, as the fixer and 二塁打 スパイ／執行官 who seems 絶えず amused at the prospect of his own 切迫した 殺人, is 平等に good.?

He has sublime comic タイミング, which he shows off in his first scene, in a gift shop, when all the 動きやすい phones hidden around his person start bleeping.?

Fiona Shaw's acidic MI6 無所属の政治家 has been 減ずるd to a passive caricature, gutless and timid. All the nastiness in the 安全 services has been transferred to Steve Pemberton as a 支援する-?stabbing department 長，率いる.?

He's 'M' ― if 'M' stands for middle-経営者／支配人. Also joining the cast is Harrie t Walter as... 井戸／弁護士席, if you've been enjoying her turn as a spiteful aristocrat in Belgravia, she's even more sadistic here.?

A cast like that can make any 対話 glitter but, by golly, they have to work hard.?

In one dreary 交流, a character 発表するs: 'I'm 会合 a friend.' 'You have friends?' retorts a 同僚. 'You realise, to fit in with the 残り／休憩（する） of us, you have to be socially inept.'?

Banter like that would sound hackneyed in a soap オペラ.?

The script 欠如（する）s zap, which is 悲劇の in a show that gave us lines like Villanelle's classic, 'You should never tell a psychopath they are a psychopath. It upsets them' (uttered while 持つ／拘留するing a knife to Eve's throat in her own home).?

殺人，大当り Eve's 哀れな 拒絶する／低下する is summed up by a scene in a dingy London restaurant. The boss is lecturing someone in a half-hearted way, while watching a Chinese ギャング（個々） movie with one 注目する，もくろむ on a portable TV.?

The 審査する is no bigger than a postage stamp. On it, a hitwoman is 持つ／拘留するing a ピストル to the 長，率いる of a weeping 犠牲者.?

She pulls the 誘発する／引き起こす. It's a half-hidden 詳細（に述べる） ― until the camera zooms in on the TV to make 確かな we see it.?

殺人，大当り Eve used to slide home its jokes like needles, with subtle precision. Now it bludgeons everything over the 長，率いる.?

The cleverest 活動／戦闘 series on television is looking punch-drunk, concussed ― and 不正に dressed.?

殺人，大当り Eve is 利用できる on BBC iPlayer from Monday?