Author of novels "Kill Eve": "Do not like the way the series ended" | Israel today

Writer Luke Jennings, on whose novel series the hit series "Kill Eve" is based, is unhappy with the way the award-winning and acclaimed series came to an end after 4 seasons, and now he is making his voice heard on the subject.

The final episode of the series that sealed its fourth season aired for the first time on April 10 and created waves of confusion and frustration after the character of Judy Comer, Villanel / Oksana Astenkova was shot (again).

This time the shooting symbolized her death, leaving the character of Sandra or (forever Christina Young from "Grey's Anatomy"), Eve Polstery, endless of the legends.

In a rather long and emotional column he wrote for the British Guardian, Jennings referred to the end of the series based on his books and did not hide his disappointment with the way the story works for the small screen.

Jennings says that in preparation for the series 'first season, he and the series' writer, Phoebe Waller Bridge, agreed that Villanel's character would be defined by what Waller called her "glory": her subversion and her cruel power.

"It's Villanel I wrote and Phoebe turned her into an on-screen character that Judy Comer was good at portraying so wonderfully," he wrote. 

"Villanel is alive and she will return."

Judy Comer as Villanel in "Kill Eve,"

The disappointment, he said, came at the end of the fourth season, when there seemed to be a surrender to conventions.

Jennings admits in the opinion piece that it is impossible to connect to everything the writing team processes and brings to life on screen, since as a writer and the creator of them, you are too close to the characters, and yet, he noted, there is something exciting in this process.

For him the way it was written and eventually aired in the plot line in the final episode of the series was not close to the vision he had.

"It was a kind of punishment for two for the bloody and erotic chaos of their relationship. A true subversive plotline would not succumb to the conventions dictated in TV dramas when it comes to a same-sex love story and would go in a brave direction that would not end in the death of one of the characters," he wrote.

"For many young people who lead a life of difficulty and loneliness, such a series is a real lifeline," he added, telling of a Russian lesbian fan who wrote to him how much Villanel's character became a backbone of strength for her, one that even when eliminated by the series' writers, will still remain Forever in her heart and nothing or person will take it from her.

"I knew what the end of the series would be before the episode aired," Jennings admitted, "and I expected fans to be disappointed," he admitted.

"To all those fans I can say one thing: Villanel is alive, and on the pages, if not on screen, she will return," he promised.

"Kill Eve" is a British television series from the thriller genre, produced for BBC America and aired for the first time in April 2018. It is based on the series of novels by writer Luke Jennings and made into the small screen by Jennings and Phoebe Waller Bridge .

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