Crime novelist Tara Moss makes the case that Killing Eve’s Villanelle is one of the most complex and compelling villains we’ve seen on screen. | Tara_Moss killingeve jodiecomer villanelle
It’s no secret that I love a good villain. Or villainess, to be more precise. Years ago, when fashion guru Maggie Tabberer came to my home, she was somewhat aghast at my collection of Niagara Detroit paintings of pin-up style women with weapons and evil slogans such as “violence is golden”. I found the works ironic and subversive, Maggie found them a touch disturbing. But this was hardly the first clue as to my darker leanings.
bad use, we see Villanelle reintroduced in a very different light in the latest and final season, as she sings to a church congregation. She wants to be good, perfectly, irrefutably good, it seems. Just what game is she playing, we wonder? Whatever it is, we know it will end in blood. The character of Villanelle, according toauthor Luke Jennings, is somewhat based on a hit woman for a Basque nationalist paramilitary group nicknamed for her “legendary sexual prowess”.
I had the privilege of studying psychopaths in the 1990s and early 2000s for my original Mak Vanderwall crime series, spending time with Dr Robert Hare at his UBC Psychopathy Lab at UBC. Hare created the Psychopathy Checklist . At that time, he estimated that psychopaths make up about 1 per cent of the population. They would be found equally in each gender, he argued, though psychopathy – like so much else – is a spectrum. A score of 25 or 30 and above were the ones to watch.
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