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- BBC America
- Apr 7, 2019
- BBC America
- Apr 7, 2019
- BBC America
- Apr 7, 2019
- BBC America
- Apr 7, 2019
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Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
86
100% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
0% Mixed
0 Reviews
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0% Negative
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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.
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.
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Based on 127 User Ratings
8.1
84% Positive
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107 Ratings
6% Mixed
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10% Negative
13 Ratings
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 127 User Ratings
8.1
84% Positive
107 Ratings
107 Ratings
6% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
10% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
Femininity uproots the long-standing tropes in the spy genre's traditionally masculine world. And it is in no way political about it just assuredly funny! Everything deepens here with a near perfect pacing and how it uses Villenels uncharacteristic femininity as a threat,a weapon that helps leviate brutal kills and subvert expectations. Fortunately the show addresss the **** tension between Eve and Villenel without shying into baiting. Both halves of the season are evenly strong and even the new characters don't meander and block long running plots but steady them. Also THAT ending will not be rivalled anytime soon.
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SEASON 2
Killing Eve is still one of my top 10 favorite shows of all time and this season was even better than season 1. Jodie Comer just really steals the show for me but not to underplay Sandra Oh's performance, they just give two of the most phenomenal performances on TV and their chemistry is just terrific. Fiona Shaw, Edward Bluemel, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Julian Barratt gave excellent supporting performances. The writing is just outstanding, the character development with Villanelle and Eve is just astounding. The cinematography is just spectacular and beautifully done. I love the music it is so perfectly and beautiful composed and helps to set the mood for every scene perfectly. The costumes are exceptional especially on Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw, and Sandra Oh. The makeup and hairstyling is stupendous especially on Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh. This second season was perfect, an A+.
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SEASON 2
It still goes down like a particularly glug-glug-glug-able cocktail, as effervescent and fun and thrilling and smart and witty as ever--which is the heaviest half of the equation. Also: It's still as believable and twisty, an emotional entanglement of motives and obsessions and tactical fun that a psychopathic assassin can have with the in-over-her-head agent on her tail.
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.
The script is still tight and the jokes are still there, as are Villanelle’s accents, outfits and abrupt killings, but without the will-they/won’t-they energy of the initial plot, it is harder to care.
The two episodes made available for review, while not as exciting as the first few episodes of Season 1, detail their recovery and inculcation back into previous modes.
[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.
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 weeks to get round to the watching last few episodes, the magic had gone. Hoping it refinds its form.
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SEASON 2
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 and wow! Maybe become a killer, too!" There's much less tension, fewer thrills as this becomes more of a buddy movie.
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SEASON 2
Really, being honest, this shouldn't have been made. The PWB authored season one was a spectacular piece of television. This however simply didn't work. Every tension is made flabby and every dynamic, blunt. The writing simply isn't as sharp. The season improves a little towards the end, but there is a hell of a lot of really-not-so-stylised treading of water. A shame.
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SEASON 2
My wife hyping season 1 and the buzz in the wider media got me to watch 2 and a bit episodes of season 2. Sorry but this is drivel, sub A level writing that would have been called out I suspect were it not for the fact of its 'innovative' use of female characters in 'traditionally' male roles.
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