Apologies if this is too off-topic. And spoilers for the finale of Killing Eve.

As some of you may know, Killing Eve, a BBC America spy drama starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, aired its finale tonight. The series was built around the relationship between Eve Polastri (Oh), an American intelligence analyst, and Villanelle (Comer), a playful assassin, and their rivalry, obsession and eventual romance.

The show built and built relationship tension between them for four seasons, and it took until the two-part finale for them to really acknowledge their feelings for each other and express them. They got to spend most of the final episode actually in love, they kissed, and held each other close after killing the bad guys.

Then Villanelle is shot dead out of nowhere by a sniper. They fall into the Thames, her body floats away, and Eve only gets to surface and cry out in anguish before it cuts to black.

So yeah, four seasons of buildup were reduced to a lazy tragedy-for-the-sake-of-tragedy, bury-your-lesbians ending. There was no dramatic justification for it, it cuts off both their arcs too soon, and just spits in the face of everyone who was invested in that relationship.

This post does a really good job of explaining what happened.

So if any other fans of lesbian enemies-to-lovers stories here were watching and felt similarly let down, you aren’t alone. And I hope we don’t take the great writing that went into Catradora for granted.