It looks like the folks behind Luther have another hit on their hands.
As we reported last month, the set up for Killing Eve is already a bit of an attention grabber.
The show is written by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and it revolves around two very distinct women. One’s a psychopathic assassin and the other is a brilliant MI6 agent. Both are tasked with the same deadly mission: Find Her.
Eve (Sandra Oh) is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade MI5 security officer whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a mercurial, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. What happens when two equally driven people go head-to-head in a deadly game of cat and mouse?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbe3w425o4I
Clip via BBC America
The first episode aired on BBC America over the weekend, and the reviews have been phenomenal:
“Killing Eve is a spy story, a murder mystery, a spellbinding character drama, and a gloriously wicked comedy. It all comes together to make one of the year’s most delightful and captivating series that will hopefully play on for many seasons to come (Serendipitously, the series was renewed for Season 2 just before this review published).” – Collider
“This is delicious, instantly addictive television. … Even though it’s easy to see the outline of the road ahead, there are more than enough swerves to keep this season unpredictable and full of suspense.” – New York Magazine
“The result is entertaining, clever and darkly comic, anchored by Ms. Oh’s performance as an intelligence agent whose instincts and resolve have to make up for her inexperience and her tendency to scream like a terrified child in the face of danger.” – The New York Times
“The series combines a dry comedy’s affection for the mundane with the slick look and tone of a psychosexual thriller, and the result is something wholly original, suspenseful, and caustically funny.”- Slant Magazine
There is still no set air date for the show on BBC on this side of the Atlantic, but it is set to get a prime-time slot of BBC One before the box set becoming available on BBC Three.
