Killing Eve

[Insidious Von]

Is a very addictive show, you'll want to see more than one episode upon first viewing. Produced by BBC America and available on Amazon Prime. It's an unusually written spy thriller.

Ottawa's Sandra OH is a great actress, she proved it in Sideways as the love interest of the great Paul Giamatti. To make the show work they needed an equally talented actress as a foil for her character. Enter Jodie Comer, never heard of her before, she's more than up to the challenge. She plays Villanelle, perhaps the zaniest hit woman you'll ever see. As good as Oh is, she makes the show addictive and she's a scouser. Her father works for Everton Football Club.

 

[massman]

Like this show a lot. Oh and Comer are brilliant together, and the Villanelle characters is amazing. (and I find Comer to be incredibly attractive, hard to stop looking at her!!!

(Tho Sandra Oh was in Sideways, she was Thomas Hayden Church’s love interest, Virginia Madsen was Giamatti’s).

 

[SexB]

Agreed, Killing Eve is a great series. It's also available on Bravo and I'm pretty sure that AMC picked it up as well.

 

[Insidious Von]

Thanks for the correction massman, haven't seen Sideways in awhile.

Villanelle is being compared with Tony Soprano and Walter White, that's high praise.

 

[Carvher]

I've been watching it and enjoying it too. Oh tends to overact with her facial expressions which can be annoying but other than that it is very addictive

 

[Terminator2000]

I've been watching it and enjoying it too. Oh tends to overact with her facial expressions which can be annoying but other than that it is very addictive

maybe its because her character is psychotic that she exaggerates her facial expressions?

i actually compared this show to being similar to Dexter in the sense that shes a serial killer, except she gets paid to do it professionally. unlike dexter who spent most of his time hiding it and didnt get paid for it at all but he was a serial killer also.

 

[Insidious Von]

Just finished streaming S1, it's as good a startup as any show can have. The ranting between Villanelle and Konstantin's daughter was the highlight of the season - two spoiled brats trying to score points on each other.

Dexter, like Sons of Anarchy, got ridiculous. I lost interest when the stalwart Sergeant Doakes got killed, an abrupt end to a fascinating character. When a show loses all sense of reality, if it's not a fantasy like Game of Thrones, suspending disbelief becomes more difficult. With Jodie Comer and Gaite Jansen, 2019 is the year of the gatto pazzo (crazy cat) actress. As a main character Comer brought her full range of talents to the character, Jansen, as Phoenix in Jett, didn't have enough to do. It's an HBO show, Jansen flashed the goods on several occasions. Her cowgirl while singing a tone deaf version of Blondie's "The Tide is High" will forever be burned in my mind.