[quote MissBattleaxe]@Mooserp yes it is a different writer each season. Phoebe Waller Bridge wrote the first one and is still an Exec producer. I also find the quirky visuals and music overdone and quite annoying now. It was brilliant when it started but it's been flogged to death now.
I don't know what is motivating any of the characters. No idea what Eve is up to, pretty sure Carolyn wants revenge, not sure what Konstantin wants, Villanelle doesn't seem to know what she wants apart from Eve. It's just irritating.[/quote]
This is my take on their motivations:
Eve is transforming/has transformed from observer to player. She’s working under the pretext of a private company that does odd jobs (like protecting an ambassador) to still work on her The 12 obsession. It’s taken her over.
Carolyn is a workaholic whose whole upbringing, youth and life has been defined by secret service/foreign office work and she can’t let a thing go. She’s meant to be on the bench I think.
Konstantin wants a peaceful life eating homemade sausages made by admirers, but other people have too much leverage on him (like Helene mentioning the money he stole from the 12) to allow that to remain so.
Villanelle wants redemption and unconditional love. She wants someone to look at her and see her as good and worthy of love (doesn’t matter if it’s deserved). She wants to learn whether she was born bad, if it’s inevitable, if it’s to her core. Carolyn turned that to being good at something is a form of not bad. Hence next episode is justice killing. Ultimately I think Villanelle just wants to know more about herself, her life, how much others influenced or trained her and how much is just her.
I binge watched it all last summer for the first time, so I wonder if I’ve just gone with it. I definitely sensed the huge shifts between each season but just thought oh ok this is what’s happening now and went with it. I can imagine if you’ve waited a whole year for a series that really invested in, the total change would be more difficult to stomach.