‘Killing Eve’: BBC America’s Feminist Assassin Series Just Went From Fun and Addictive to Essential Viewing

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Killing Eve” Episode 3, “Don’t I Know You?”]“Killing Eve” has been a wild and daring ride so far, but it’s always kept the tone lighthearted and breezy.

Sure, the gamine assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) murders people willy-nilly throughout Europe, but it’s always done with such flair and only to peripheral characters that it felt more like fantasy violence than anything else.

Death by hairpin or perfume? Come on.

That’s just downright die-lightful!Sunday’s third episode of the season broke the spell on that fantasy and marks a turning point, for when the series went from fun and addictive to essential viewing.

In “Don’t I Know You?” Mi-6 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) has yet to be killed, but a bit of her heart dies when her former boss-turned-employee Bill (David Haig) becomes Villanelle’s latest victim.And to be fair, Bill’s fate is

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