Netflix, Y’all Can Finish, But ‘Killing Eve’ Is The Show You Should Be Binging

You know how BBC America promotion be for us actually in America. You see some marketing for the show for the first time maybe about three weeks before it airs. Then, you hear the chatter about it from the BBC America faithful about how good the show is once the season is almost done. What I remember hearing most about Killing Eve before watching it myself was that it was refreshing, because it was a cat and mouse drama with two women leads. That’s about half right. What makes Killing Eve stand out is what they do with those two women leads and seeing how they navigate the world. This isn’t a role reversal type of show. The killer isn’t woman only in aesthetic and without any feminine sensibilities. It is a world where men exists, but their agency and motivations matter little. It’s a world where women are not only the danger, but foil, sometimes to each other. Making it one of the most unique shows on TV and a must watch.

Based on the international acclaimed Villanelle Novels, Killing Eve bounces between, often kinetically and in narrative, Eve Polastri, a MI-5 agent operating in London and Villanelle, an outright psychopath for hire. Villanelle, which is a code name mostly deposited upon her due to her choice of perfume, is better at killing people than just about anybody else that is at anything. Our introduction to her, and the show at large, begins with her eating ice cream and making smiley faces at a little girl in the eatery before she knocks over the girl’s ice crea…