'Killing Eve' Season 4, Episode 3 Recap: "A Rainbow in Beige Boots"

A long time ago — three seasons to be exact — seeing Villanelle walking down the hall pushing a hotel cart was the beginning of the thrill of the hunt, another creative killing by the world's silliest assassin. But Killing Eve is tired, exhausted in fact, as is our killer, a once-fashionista who now grabs a laundry bag of clothes off a door in desperation. There is nothing sexy or forbidden about her break-in to Eve's room, only the limp collapse of someone who thinks they have found sanctuary. But it is an illusion; Eve arrives to see Villanelle's bloody clothes on the floor and sighs, having been here one too many times. She changes clothes and heads out the door, telling Villanelle to take whatever she wants, just get gone.

Eve: You know you can just book a therapist; you don't have to take one hostage.

Let us stop again with the nonsense of the plot details to appreciate the smaller specificities, which the series never fails to knock out of the park. This week, I would like to highlight the soundtrack of this final season, from the show's original songs like "Unloved Heart" and "Strange Effect" to Wargirl's "Sass Girl," which blasts over Pam's body preservation scene. The story may be going round in lazy circles, but it chooses some great earworms. I'm only sorry that there isn't a soundtrack assigned to each in the massive jump around to cover such disparate character threads from Carolyn in Russia to Martin in London.