BBC America has made the wise decision to renew Killing Eve for a second season ahead of its first season premiere. I’ve watched the first three episodes of the series and am already hooked on this smart crime drama starring Jodie Comer (The White Princess) and Sandra Oh (American Crime, Grey’s Anatomy). It’s a terrific addition to BBC America’s lineup that should, hopefully, find a wide audience looking for something a little twisted and gritty.
BBC will launch season one on Sunday, April 8, 2018 at 8pm ET/PT.
Killing Eve is based on the novellas by Luke Jennings. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sally Woodward Gentle, and Lee Morris are the executive producers and series star Sandra Oh is an associate producer.
“This show has the thunder of women on both sides of the chase in Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer and, importantly, behind the camera with the lavishly brilliant Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The early response to Killing Eve has been incredible – for that reason, as well as the fact that we wholeheartedly love this original, funny, thrillingly entertaining series, we are delighted to move ahead with a second season before we even premiere,” stated BBC America President Sarah Barnett.
The Plot: Killing Eve is a dramatic thriller revolving around a psychopathic assassin and the woman charged with hunting her down. It is a combination of brutal mischief making and pathos, filled with sharp humor, originality and high stakes action.
BBC America’s Killing Eve centers on two women; Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade security services operative whose desk-bound job doesn’t fulfill her fantasies of being a spy. Villanelle is an elegant, talented killer who clings to the luxuries her violent job affords her. Killing Eve topples the typical spy-action thriller as these two fiercely intelligent women, equally obsessed with each other, go head to head in an epic game of cat and mouse.
