The emmy win was really for Season One plot and acting, but was conferred in Season Two.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE FROM A TRUE FAN:
1. First - STOP virtually "fawning" over Sandra Oh's HAIR...as any kine of waaay OVER-DONE compliment: as it's coming across in the SAME "determinedly kind" manner, as the surreal - and RACIST HYPER-CONCENTRATION on Michelle Obama's ARMS, as seemingly her SOLE physically-attractive asset?!? Which as such renders it ALMOST AS AN INSULT! Good grief.... Sandra Oh is an attractive Asian woman in her OWN right: so that if you keep looking to find the "USUAL" and as such "EXPECTED" Caucasian features in her face, you'll ALWAYS have to look SOMEWHERE ELSE for your "STANDARD-IZED BEAUTY" FIX!!
2. Former colleague Bill and Eve had more interpersonal chemistry - as two sentient Human Beings; than do loving husband Nico and Eve. What gives?!? For example: that scene in Season One, when Bill was helping Eve dress in the bathroom, prefatory to her meeting with the Asian guy (...really FUNNY chap, btw!!) at the restaurant; when Bill suggested she go bra-less. There was REAL CHEMISTRY there - no so much in an overtly sexual way; but oddly they LOOKED more like a couple - married or otherwise, that were actually "into each other," than do Nico and Eve. And while I KNOW Nico's (...sad, wet-blanket...) role is to act the "Mis-Treated Husband," the lack of INTIMACY has NOTHING to do with that deliberate distance he's necessarily had to establish. Problem is though, when he has to "act all DEEPLY LOYAL/LOVING TO HIS WIFE" - like when he admitted he loved her in front of the wimpy Math Teacher/Wannabe Homewrecker...it kinda fell FLAT! When he replied, I almost had to ASK myself: " WHO does he mean?!" Then ANSWERED: "Oh! He means his WIFE!" Weird...
3. I ain't no psychoanalyst...just plain smart! So that I know that what made Eve's instinctive cogitations about Villanelle's psychopathic state MORE INTERESTING IN SEASON ONE...was the fact that Eve approached it from a TRUTHFUL, NON-PRETENTIOUS perspective as a FORMER STUDENT of psychology, and NOT some ace PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR! Season Two's OVER-ANALYTICAL bent therefore, is about as USEFUL as a Gift-Pack of Condoms to a freshly-spayed spouse!
4. I really MISS the Elena character: the fact that we all noticed that she IS A FINE ACTRESS, with an INTERESTING PERSONALITY is almost miraculous...given that her "ROLE" IN SEASON ONE was - basically relegated to: "Make The Necessary Travel Arrangements, Elena!" AND: "Go Make A Nice Pot Of Tea, Elena!" My...GOD!!?!! It was like watching a bizarre redux of the "HATTIE MACDANIEL" CHARACTER in (...racial attitudes that we ALL presumed were...) "Gone With The Wind!!"
To re-state: I like the series, and want it to continue to succeed - simply because it is perhaps the ONLY TRULY FEMINIST FILM I've seen for a long time. If EVER - really.
