<i>Killing Eve</i> Is a Sign of TV to Come
The new BBC America show is stylish, irreverent, and hard to categorize.
BBC America’s new drama , which debuted on Sunday night, is already one of the most critically acclaimed new shows of the year, alongside HBO’s and Netflix’s And, like both those shows, it’s tricky to categorize. at its core is a cat-and-mouse spy story between an MI6 investigator named Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) and a glamorous assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer). But it’s also variously a dark psychological drama about sociopathy, a feminist procedural, and a British workplace comedy that traffics in colloquialisms like , , and . Villanelle as a character would fit seamlessly into a forward-thinking
