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she faces." Villanelle is a "complexly written, deeply frustrating character", and "nearly impossible to not root for" despite lacking the likability that conventionally is the goal for female characters. She shows moments of questioning but never surrenders to regret. Lacking moral impetus or guiding principle for her killing decisions and motivated by bloodlust, greed and spite, "Villanelle's dysfunction is her own". On RogerEbert.com, Brian
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Villanelle's ability "to shift from seemingly caring to cold and calculated in one breath as a reaction to how events change around her" is chilling, but Comer makes the transformation believable. Phoebe Waller-Bridge related that Comer "has a playfulness in her approach to Villanelle, which has
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violence of men." She is "wild and wildly self-possessed. ... She tries on identities the way other people try on clothes". Though she "acts as televisual wish fulfillment, a touching melancholy comes to the surface ... suggesting that (she) doesn't consume with such hearty gusto out of a simple lust
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Actress Jodie Comer described her character as a free spirit, not self-conscious at all, likening
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Villanelle has also been described as cocky, playful, ostentatious, and possessing a beauty constituting a "rather literally weaponized femininity" that is alluring both to Eve and to audiences. Cold, calculating, and callous, she "attracts sympathy and then immediately deploys it against whomever
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that she is "essentially a child, petulant and silly and rude", but whose "theatrical instincts flare back to life" in a deadly situation. Tolentino also inferred that
Villanelle may be "unravelling" or replaying childhood events: demanding her handler admit he loves her more than his daughter;
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Series creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge explained how her crafting of
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delved into the women's complex relationship and wrote that their story "explores the kind of trickiness involved in navigating the world as a woman"; despite the growing connection, Villanelle knows how she can lure others and the "sisterhood" is "devoid of guarantees".
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is the way that Villanelle's gender and manner, her very femininity, keep our acculturated brains from being appropriately terrified of her." Describing how Villanelle "does what she always does: exploit society’s
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Villanelle "offers a window into a life most women never get the chance to lead, a life defined by pure female desire and rage unfettered by financial worries, domestic obligations, and the
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How Jodie Comer Found the Honesty in a Lying, Murderous Psychopath"
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1495:and the Riddle of Why Women Kill"
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988:Harrison, Ellie (14 May 2020).
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