Killing Eve: Season 2

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BBC America | Season Premiere Date: April 7, 2019

Summary: The second season picks up seconds after the season one finale, with Eve (Sandra Oh) unsure if Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is going to be alive, but goes on to search for her.

Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense

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Air Date: April 7, 2019
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Collider Allison Keene

Apr 3, 2019

As for Killing Eve, though, everything is still going very right. Read full review

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The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon

Apr 8, 2019

Perfect is a strong word, but Killing Eve is a series that merits those. ... Everything that worked so well in season one is back in essentially the same form, and it’s working again. Read full review

TV Guide Kaitlin Thomas

Mar 25, 2019

Killing Eve is still a fantastic and well-made show that is not only worth celebrating for any number of its own obvious merits, but worth embracing for taking a familiar set up and crafting it into a series that is also refreshing and new. Read full review

Hank Stuever

Apr 4, 2019

How is Season 2? Is it just as good? Why, yes, it is. ... Fennell and company deftly resume the action. ... As it stands, the women are two of the most intriguing TV characters in recent memory, taking us to a place that can feel altogether new. Read full review

Boston Herald Mark A. Perigard

Apr 4, 2019

Despite the often tense, even grisly moments, the show remains furiously funny — as when Oh as Eve reacts to a robocall from a roofing company or craves a hamburger during a visit to a makeshift morgue. As the object of a growing manhunt, Comer manages to constantly keep viewers off-balance with a performance that is perpetually off-kilter. Read full review

Judy Berman

Apr 9, 2019

[Phoebe Waller-Bridge's] handpicked replacement, Call the Midwife star Emerald Fennell, doesn’t seem to grok the characters on quite as profound a level. Happily, Fennell does know how to keep episodes fizzy, fast-paced and binge-friendly. Read full review

Vox.com Constance Grady

Apr 4, 2019

[There's a] plot twist rooted in circumstance rather than in character. As a storytelling choice, it’s just a little bit clumsy. Eve’s storyline, meanwhile, is moving more slowly than Villanelle’s: There are fewer murders, and more conversations with telemarketers (sounds dull, isn’t). But it carries enormous dramatic potential, because Eve is committing spy-vs-spy adultery. She’s begun to investigate a new female assassin. Read full review

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Luchsius

Apr 8, 2019

Season 2 of Killing Eve started as great as the first season ended. It's currently my favorite TV show because of the suspense, action and amazing characters played by a great cast!

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ClariseSamuels

Jun 3, 2019

This British spy thriller series engages the viewers interest with an absurdist twist on what it means to work for MI6 and what it means to be a professional assassin. Unlike most cold-hearted, dispassionate and detached assassins, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is also a serial killer at heart.This British spy thriller series engages the viewers interest with an absurdist twist on what it means to work for MI6 and what it means to be a professional assassin. Unlike most cold-hearted, dispassionate and detached assassins, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is also a serial killer at heart. She is a true psychopath who is merciless, ruthless, and bloodthirsty. She kills on contract for large payments in order to make a living, but she also commits murder in her private life out of vengeance and mere annoyance with individuals who cross her. She is ruthless. When told by Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), the MI6 agent who has set out to apprehend her, that she is a psychopath, she replies with dead calm and a bemused sense of irony, “I hate that word.”

Villanelle is actually a Russian criminal known as Oksana. She is youthful and blond with large, innocent eyes and a flawless, porcelain complexion. She is flamboyant and loves to wear high fashion, even the most outlandish designer creations that are sure to attract attention. She seduces both men and women, tossing them aside afterward. She is emotionally dead. But mostly she is bored, and her boredom may prove to be lethal for anyone who enters her deluded, insane universe.

Her nemesis is Eve Polastri. The chemistry between these two women is inexplicable and highly improbable. Yet, it’s there. Eve is happily married and dedicated to the search for justice and truth. But she and Villanelle are both outsiders, although for different reasons. Polastri’s ethnic origins are Korean, and she speaks to her mother in Korean. The Polish name is her married name, but she is not Polish, she is not British, and she is not European Caucasian. Like Villanelle, she is an outsider but she is compassionate, responsible, and well-adjusted. Emotionally, she is the polar opposite of this lunatic whom she both hunts and desires. Somehow Villanelle fascinates Eve and begins to draw her in. This bizarre relationship ends in disaster in the last episode of Season 1. Eve stabs Villanelle, who escapes and recovers. The stabbing only serves to intrigue Villanelle, who interprets it as an act of love.

Season 2 brings the two together again in a temporary alliance to seek another criminal monster. This MI6 association with Villanelle, who originally was supposed to be brought to justice, creates a logical disconnect in the plot, and there are more logical disconnects related to the inscrutable Carolyn (Fiona Shaw), who is Eve’s boss. At the end of Season 2, we have a reversal. This time Villanelle leaves Eve lying wounded on the ground; Villanelle shoots Eve.

Although Jodie Comer is a central player of interest, it is Sandra Oh who somehow keeps it all glued together. Their characters’ chemistry should not work but it does, as Eve lives her life in a no-man’s zone filled with a haze of erotic fantasy that is juxtaposed with the mundane activity of married life. Eve is obsessed with Villanelle even as she chops vegetables to prepare dinner for her husband. Eve is not as transparent or as obvious as Villanelle. She is complicated, tortured, and confused. Her various states are reflected by her looks—sometimes she emanates an ethereal beauty that almost glows from within; other times she looks plain, middle-aged, and even a little schlumpy. Villanelle is a heartless criminal, but Eve is the mystery in this story. The background is enhanced by a haunting soundtrack from Unloved—dreamy, surreal strains of longing and unformed, if not dangerous, impulses of the subconscious mind.… Expand

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jenevi

Apr 7, 2019

The mystery, suspense, irony, action, and obsessions all make this show worth watching. Not only is this a great action show, it also manages to be absolutely hilarious! Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer give great performances - they are so quirky and make the show stand out!

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Davrosdaleks1

May 27, 2019

Liked this season, though I preferred the first one a little more.

The show continues it's interesting combination of violence and quirky, dark humor. I admit the first half is better than the second half. The beginning is interesting and exciting as we have the assassin Villanelle (JodieLiked this season, though I preferred the first one a little more.

The show continues it's interesting combination of violence and quirky, dark humor. I admit the first half is better than the second half. The beginning is interesting and exciting as we have the assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) injured and on the run, and MI agent Eve (Sandra Oh) dealing with the events of last season. Plus, we spend more time on the frayed relationship with her husband. We also get an elusive new assassin.

But in the second half, we get an antagonist who isn't as interesting, and the whole search for the evil secret organization The Twelve kind of goes out the window. We learn nothing new about the organization or it's goals. Though, I liked this season, I'm afraid of it doing what many anti-hero shows do and just stretch things out so that it gets more and more forced in regards to the criminal given free range.

Be forewarned that there is one scene that is DARK even for this show.

Oh and Comer again deliver fine appearances. Comer brings such life to the humorous, childish, clever, and horrifying Villanelle. Fiona Shaw continues to do a great job as Eve's boss, the clever, calm, and morally inscrutable Carolyn Martens. Owen McDonnell gets to do more as Eve's husband as he becomes more involved with and frustrated with Eve's world.

I wish the second half was stronger, but there are still a lot of little moments that make the show work.… Expand

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steveyme

Jun 25, 2019

Season 1 was one of the best shows I have seen for years, an absolute instant classic. Sadly season 2 has been really baggy and a bit of a mess. Early episodes seemed pretty good, but by the middle it was sagging, with random incidents and a lack of coherent plot. It actually took us weeksSeason 1 was one of the best shows I have seen for years, an absolute instant classic. Sadly season 2 has been really baggy and a bit of a mess. Early episodes seemed pretty good, but by the middle it was sagging, with random incidents and a lack of coherent plot. It actually took us weeks to get round to the watching last few episodes, the magic had gone. Hoping it refinds its form.… Expand

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Lyn

May 29, 2019

The actors are great and Eve's style is superb. But I'm mildly surprised none of the critics noticed the lack of dramatic tension as the story morphed from "I'm outraged by this killer and want to catch her" to "I'm obsessed with this entrancing killer and want to be buddies with her andThe actors are great and Eve's style is superb. But I'm mildly surprised none of the critics noticed the lack of dramatic tension as the story morphed from "I'm outraged by this killer and want to catch her" to "I'm obsessed with this entrancing killer and want to be buddies with her and wow! Maybe become a killer, too!" There's much less tension, fewer thrills as this becomes more of a buddy movie.… Expand

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OlivierPiel

Apr 8, 2019

After 4 intriguing episodes in season 1, this show has revealed itself as a very simplistic cartoonish bore (all the actions of any protagonist are totally unbelievable) . Its success is indeed based on a very basic trick: Daubed in "feminism", its talisman protects it from every negativeAfter 4 intriguing episodes in season 1, this show has revealed itself as a very simplistic cartoonish bore (all the actions of any protagonist are totally unbelievable) . Its success is indeed based on a very basic trick: Daubed in "feminism", its talisman protects it from every negative critic that would be too scared to break the taboo. If the lead characters were men, it would be discarded as the non-sense and drivel that it truly is. What American critics hail as dark British humour is just a direct descendant of that second-rate simplistic British materialistic and egocentric nihilistic culture of Hume and Locke.

Episode 1:
Some of the hospital scenes try to be embarrassingly funny. It doesn't work at all. The "bad girl" languish there for such a long time only to pretend to reveal her "humanity" towards the little boy who thinks he is a monster. Just to expunge a clichéd 3 $ pseudo philosophical line: "we are all not normal". Then, as if self-aware of this mawkish instinct, she kills him. Probably to shock middle-class female audiences, ...who feel so good about themselves when they seem to overcome their instinctive repulsion. This feels like a rather cheap thrill. Also, very hypocritically, It makes us empathise with a psycho-killer just because she is a woman.

Otherwise:
The score is always this ethereal crappy elektro-music that frame all the useless scenes.
The Sandra Oh post-crime psychological anguish scenes are both totally chichéd and badly acted: "I need to cook or listen to a hard-sell cold call to get over myself".
I could go on and on on this rant. If I were a feminist and/or British, I would be embarrassed.
This is a show you love to hate basically.

PS: The boyfriend of Sandra Oh must have repeated that line 100 times"Can you tell me what's going on?" already.

Wenn du zum Weibe gehst, vergiss die Peitsche nicht! (Nietzsche)… Expand

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