So here's Killing Eve, a show that was on absolutely nobody's radar when it began two or three months ago - just another BBC America drama - but a bona fide word-of-mouth-based sleeper hit, at least with critics and TV nerds. I mean, check out this ratings table:
Putting aside tat the ratings are abysmal in an overall sense - this is non-basic cable in 2018, guys - check out that slow and steady climb throughout the season. Do you realize what needs to happen for a serialized drama to gain viewers every week? It means that every week more and more people need to hear about it, try it out, and then binge the entirety of the series to date in order to catch up and be "live;" it only gets harder and harder to add viewers later and later in the season, and yet somehow Killing Eve made its largest gains of all on the finale. Wow!
Anyway, yes - that's Sandra Oh on the poster, famously unable to find work after Grey's Anatomy because even in the era of peak TV there just weren't any roles for forty-year-old Asian women. And the show is made by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, a very funny and talented British woman whose Fleabag is absolutely worth checking out on Amazon. (Six episodes!) But the true breakout star of Killing Eve in my opinion has to be the other woman on the poster above, Jodie Comer, as the fascinating Russian assassin "Villanelle," just one of the creepiest and quirkiest and funniest performances I've ever seen (yes, all at once). She's a dangerously competent psychopath with no discernible baggage or damage that "makes" her the monster she is - just a charming young woman who genuinely enjoys killing people, really - and any time she was on the screen I couldn't look away.
You'd do well by yourself to give this one a shot. The less I say, the better. If you don't have BBC America, I believe the first season is coming to Hulu pretty soon. It might already even be there!
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