Killing Eve revolutionizes the spy series while also being massively entertaining

The Hollywood Reporter

"One of the many grand achievements of the thrillingly addictive new BBC America series Killing Eve," says Tim Goodman, "is that once it fails to be a revolution of the form (and yes, it's hard not to have expectations for it to be so), it still manages to become quite the prize: a spy vs. assassin battle in which both players are women (Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer); both are badass in their own ways, but neither is robotically flawless; both are funny in the midst of violence; and both are emotionally nuanced — which is not a surprise since the show was written by another supremely talented woman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge." He adds: "Waller-Bridge takes these two talented actresses and doesn't just drop them into roles traditionally (and tiredly) given to men, but shapes the characters to be a whole lot more than a mere gender flip for the genre."

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