However, she spares her brother Pyotr, who sleeps in the barn, and Bor’ka. She also kills Fyodor, Yula, and Grigoriy, who are all sleeping as she blows up the house. She tells her mother that she thinks she has to kill her, and then she does. In any case, Villanelle reacts in a way that you might have been expecting from the start. Maybe it’s a corrupted genetic line, or maybe they’re just all the children of an abusive woman. And then there’s the way Pyotr beats an old sofa, so he won’t beat people. The boy hits his head against the wall to punish himself. We already know that Tatiana is particularly cruel to Bor’ka, for instance. And while her mom claims that they sent her away because her father was concerned she’d hurt them, I don’t think I buy that. Without much prompting, unless you consider the waste of a bit of tomato paste a prompt, her mother insists that she leave.
And she seems content back, even if she is a little weirded out by the family’s post-dinner “Crocodile Rock” performance.īut nothing gold can stay and neither can Villanelle. In the meantime, though, he’s content just to hear Villanelle talk about where to eat in each city in which Elton has played. He said 60k rubles, I think? That would be ’round about 817 US dollars or 658 pounds.) (Hang on, let me run it through the currency converter. Bor’ka is a huge fan of Elton’s and would love nothing more than to see him on his farewell tour, if he could scrape up the rubles. Once he finds out she speaks English–she stubbornly refuses to speak Russian–his thoughts go immediately to Elton John, as ours all do. She’s particularly soft with Boris, or “Bor’ka,” her half-brother. Sure, it’s kind of slow and the biggest local attraction is the fair (at which Villanelle wins the dung-throwing contest), but they are her family. It seems like she’s maybe deciding if she could make a place for herself here. Nevertheless, the more time Villanelle spends with her would-be family, including her stepbrother, Fyodor (Dimitrij Schaad), and his girlfriend Yula (Natallia Bulynia), and little Boris (Temirlan Blaev), you can see a kind of settling. (I know Villanelle acknowledges the fire story is true I’m just not sure I buy that they were told she died.) Wow, that sounds like a metaphor that is very on-brand for Villanelle’s life in general. Then she was told her parents had died in a car accident, while they were told–according to Tatiana–that little Oksana had died in a fire of her own making. She was taken to an orphanage, first of all, which is weird because she’s clearly not an orphan. And then the story everyone’s given about what happened in Villanelle’s childhood just doesn’t pass the smell test. You can see it, for instance, in the way Villanelle questions Grigoriy (Predrag Bjelac) about his relationship with her mother, Tatiana (Evgenia Dodina), almost as if she’s questioning what he sees in her. Her mother bursts into tears, crying about her baby returning. What kind of person would make Villanelle so nervous?Īt first, it doesn’t seem as if there’s anything weird here, beyond the obvious. Obviously, that’s curious in and of itself. As she waits for her mother to enter the house, she damn near has a panic attack. It’s her mother, which we can see from Villanelle’s reaction. But it’s not him she’s really worried about. His reunion is joyous his sister’s, a bit more muted. It’s his sister, the same one he was told died when they were children. They don’t know who she is and she doesn’t know they are and it isn’t until Pyotr (Rob Feldman) comes in that anyone knows what’s going on. At this episode’s beginning, she’s just chilling in a house, much to the consternation of the family who lives there.
Like seemingly so many things I watch lately, I think this episode is growing on me.Īnyway, as we saw last week, Villanelle had made her way to Russia by episode’s end. Some people might find the show’s decision to pump the brakes so soon after Niko’s murder (attack) incomprehensible.
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