To me this isn’t really a show where there’s any kind of moral consequence. People don’t win or die because they deserve it, it’s just their part in the plot, which is to be a dark comedy. Bill certainly didn’t deserve it, most of Villanelle’s kills don’t. That poor teacher who liked Niko didn’t.
This is why I place so much importance on which characters get screentime and story, the audience will sympathize and care most about the characters who actually get narrative focus. This show uses that to create a very deliberate distance between us and the actual victims to focus instead on Eve and Villanelle. Show a death, move on, now show one of them being cute or sad for much longer, of course we’re going to care more about them. It’s just what it trained us to do. No doubt we’ll be sadder for Eve grieving for Niko than actually Niko.
Did Niko as a person deserve to die? Of course not. But as a character, did he deserve to give up his life so we can progress to the next stage in Eve’s development? About time, heh. For a second there in 3×03 I genuinely thought Carolyn had died and WAS shocked, but aside from her and maybe Konstantin (and obviously Eve and Villanelle), I think anyone’s open, especially someone we only met this season.
