Killing Eve comes to Netflix at last
CREDIT: USA
Post updated on 4.16.24. See updates below.
One of my favorite genres of TV is the spy-thriller. I also love a good cat-and-mouse detective series. The BBC’s Killing Eve is something of a cat-and-mouse spy thriller, and the first couple seasons are some of the most exciting, off-kilter, darkly comical shows out there. It makes its NetflixNFLX -9.1% debut on Monday, April 15.
The series is based on Luke Jennings’s novel Codename Villanelle and consists of four seasons.
Killing Eve stars Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri, an MI5 analyst who finds herself thrust into a series of unfortunate events thanks to her obsession with a notorious assassin. Soon, she finds herself working for MI6—though her involvement is off the books.
Jodie Comer plays Villanelle, the assassin. She’s something of a psychopath, though an oddly endearing one even if she is a cold-blooded killer. Soon, both women are obsessed with one another.
Other recurring actors/characters include Fiona Shaw’s Carlyn Martens, the head of the Russian branch of MI6 and Kim Bodnia as Villanelle’s handler, Vasiliev.
The first season of the show remains its best. Written and produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge—who created and starred in the fantastic limited series, Fleabag—it’s by far the most exciting, tense, and weirdly funny of the bunch. Season 2 remains mostly quite strong, but with Waller-Bridge no longer writing, you can start to see hints of its eventual decline.
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I admit that by the third season (each has a new writer) things were clearly slipping, but it’s still entertaining enough—just not as magical—and the fourth season is a total, unrelenting disaster (the show drops from a 96% Rotten Tomatoes score in Season 1, down to 92% in Season 2, 80% in Season 3 and finally a devastating 53% in Season 4, with audience scores largely mirroring critical scores).
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Still, even if you only watch the first season—or the first two seasons—Killing Eve is well worth your time. Personally, I had to stop watching at the end (which I sometimes do instead of wasting my time) but I certainly don’t regret watching the first couple seasons. Jodie Comer’s Villanelle steals every scene and remains one of the most intriguing assassins on TV. It’s a shame they didn’t stick the landing, but it seems so few shows do
Update 4.16.24
Hannibal
CREDIT: NBC
Hannibal, which first aired on NBC in 2013, is another series with a very similar dynamic. The story follows FBI agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) and his search for a diabolical serial killer as well as various other mysteries. He’s aided in his hunt by a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) who harbors a few dark secrets of his own.
For fans of Silence Of The Lambs, this is a real treat. As brilliant as Anthony Hopkins was as Hannibal Lecter in that film, Mikkelsen brings his own dark, charming take on the character to life. Dancy’s troubled investigator is also an incredibly well-drawn character, and the way the two men’s relationship grows and changes—in all its ghastly twists and turns—is both exciting and quite frankly bizarre.
Rounding out the cast we have Laurence Fishburne as Graham’s boss, Jack Crawford, and Gillian Anderson as Lecter’s psychiatrist and lover, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier. Eddie Izzard plays Dr. Abel Gideon, another well-educated killer. And Caroline Dhavernas plays Dr. Alana Bloom, a psychiatrist and lecturer who consults for the FBI and is close friends with Graham.
The series is mostly a psychological thriller but it’s got plenty of tense action, bloody murders and all the shocking twists you could ask for. Currently you can watch Hannibal on Amazon Prime Video.
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