Whether it’s on account of the espionage or the unapologetic portrayal of its female characters, Killing Eve is no doubt in a class of its own.
There’s something about the cat-and-mouse narrative, combined with all that sexual tension and psychological exploration that really gets the heart rate pumping.
At the forefront of it all is Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a bored British MI5 investigator who finally finds the Cheetah to her Wonder Woman in the skilled and borderline psychotic Oksana Astankova Aka Villanelle (Jodie Comer).
What turns out as your run-of-the-mill “good guy chasing the bad guy” story slowly evolves into a gnawing obsession on both sides.
Bottom line: it’s positively thrilling.
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