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Critic Reviews
Apr 5, 2019
Season 2 Review:
As directed by Killing Eve vet Damon Thomas, the first two installments instantly demonstrate a command of the show’s suspenseful, cheeky, and deeply feminine tone. That tone, which ping-pongs confidently and slightly subversively between sensibilities, is like nothing else on TV right now.
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ColliderApr 5, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Killing Eve is a spy story, a murder mystery, a spellbinding character drama, and a gloriously wicked comedy. It all comes together to make one of the year’s most delightful and captivating series that will hopefully play on for many seasons to come (Serendipitously, the series was renewed for Season 2 just before this review published).
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Apr 7, 2020
Season 3 Review:
So far Killing Eve’s third season remains engrossing, surprising, and strangely funny (like when Villanelle gets an incurable case of hiccups over the prospect of seeing her family again). It’s also casually brutal, something that continues to give the series its edge. Still, there is something fresh about this new exploration of what has become an old dynamic, and the episodes get better and deeper as the season progresses.
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Apr 2, 2019
Season 2 Review:
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.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 27, 2019
Season 2 Review:
The drop-dead-funniest yet most suspensefully unpredictable spy thriller in recent memory. [1-14 Apr 2019, p.13]
Apr 11, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Killing Eve, which like Fleabag is mostly set in London, has the same irreverent sense of humor and the same intense exploration of the psychology of its lead characters. Here, those qualities don’t always come together with the conventions of the spy story in perfect harmony. But they do make something new, gratifying, and--in its finest moments--thrilling.
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Apr 9, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Killing Eve is a show outside of Eve and Villanelle’s tense, mutual hunt; its cases and kills of the week are, in fact, compelling. But as long as the show has this pair’s obsession, respect, and intrigued attraction to each other pulsing at its center, it’ll be a thrill to watch unfold.
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Apr 7, 2018
Apr 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Grounded by outstanding performances from Sandra Oh (in her first regular-series role since leaving Grey's Anatomy) and Jodie Comer (The White Princess), Eve is an enthralling trip that follows a familiar path and then suddenly veers off course, never ceasing to shock and satisfy. The series manages to be as gripping as it is kooky and darkly funny, reveling in the tennis match between the two actresses.
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Apr 4, 2019
Season 2 Review:
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.
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IndieWireMar 25, 2019
Season 2 Review:
There are awkward jokes, quirky new characters, and even a surprise twist on the formula in Season 2 — Eve and Villanelle’s two-person tête-à-tête is going to get a third caller, unwanted by at least one of the primary parties — but Killing Eve remains very much grounded in its original identity.
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Apr 2, 2018
Season 1 Review:
We've seen loads of cat-and-mouse thrillers, but Waller-Bridge's dark sense of humor makes this one truly gripping. [6/13 Apr 2018, p.84]
The GuardianDec 3, 2019
Season 2 Review:
Killing Eve’s new season is compulsively watchable, the most defiantly rock‘n’roll of television’s crime procedurals. Like its assassin, the show is snarky and bombastic, always drawing blood with a smile. Like its hero, Eve, it’s purposeful and droll, consumed by paranoia and occasionally lacking focus.
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Apr 9, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Enjoying Killing Eve for the wickedness of its narrative, its tart and caustic humor and the exciting run-down is a simple enough proposition. All of those components are satisfying, and both Oh and Comer turn in substantial performances, making the most of their screen time both separately and together--particularly together.
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Apr 6, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The shortcomings beyond tone are frustratingly more simple--a couple of big twists are telegraphed well in advance, mostly by bad decisions the characters otherwise probably wouldn't make; there's too much convenience in parts, etc. But once you get into the rhythm of Killing Eve, it's got Waller-Bridge's signature raw snark, some goofiness tucked into the mayhem and, just when that seems a tenuous thing to pull off, two excellent performances from Oh and Comer to make it work.
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Apr 5, 2018
Season 1 Review:
The result is entertaining, clever and darkly comic, anchored by Ms. Oh’s performance as an intelligence agent whose instincts and resolve have to make up for her inexperience and her tendency to scream like a terrified child in the face of danger. It’s in no way a disappointment, though it might not be as revolutionary or as subversive as its makers and its network would have you think.
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TV Guide MagazineMar 29, 2018
Season 1 Review:
Sandra Oh brings a funny, funky vulnerability to this stylishly surprising and wildly entertaining spy thriller. [2 Apr - 15 Apr 2018, p.11]
Feb 21, 2022
Season 4 Review:
Liberated from the political labyrinth of the mole-infested MI6 and the people working there, Eve tracks down leads on the Twelve through Villanelle’s signature methods of violence, deceit, and stylish disguises. ... Cromer’s performance has emphasized the childlike aspects of Villanelle since her façade of confidence began to crumble last season, and her journey this season presents a darkly humorous take on what faith and forgiveness mean for someone whose brain is hardwired to not feel remorse.
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Mar 25, 2019
Season 2 Review:
There are some wonderful moments. ... But there are worrisome problems. ... One of those awkward TV contrivances clearly, painfully designed to keep a character in one place. It’s a funnier, darker version of Kim Bauer getting caught in a cougar trap on 24--but it’s a cougar trap, nonetheless.
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TV Guide MagazineApr 27, 2020
Season 3 Review:
It takes three episodes of an uneven but sporadically shocking third season for them [Eve and Villanelle} to cross paths again, but it's worth the wait. [27 Apr - 10 May 2020, p. 11]
Apr 13, 2020
Season 3 Review:
If Heathcote channels season one's strengths, she's also hampered by the storytelling traps the show set for itself from its earliest days on. ... With Oh and Shaw stranded in Glumville, Comer takes center stage. Even though many of her plots are retreads from season one, there's enough new energy to carry her storylines through.
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Apr 4, 2019
Season 2 Review:
[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.
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IndieWireApr 7, 2020
Season 3 Review:
“Killing Eve” is a hybrid — a serialized procedural — and Season 3 tests how comfortable fans will be with a regimented structure. It’s perfectly fine entertainment, supported by two excellent performances. But if the series wants its edge back, it will have to go in for the kill.
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Apr 9, 2020
Season 3 Review:
The writers use a contrivance viewers will see coming miles away to pull I’m-done-with-all-this Eve back into the game. It’s an eye-roll-worthy plot turn. The acting remains impeccable, the costumes amaze, the locations offer beauty shots galore. Maybe for some viewers that’s enough. But it’s tough to get past the unbelievable relationship at the show’s core.
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iFeb 28, 2022
Season 4 Review:
On the whole, this was a fine opening to Killing Eve’s last run, with some new (but admittedly irritatingly convenient) plot points raised and a reliably great performance from Oh, who I would watch reading the dictionary – but it also served as a reminder of the show’s disappointing failure to build on one of the best, most exciting debut seasons of TV in years.
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Feb 25, 2022
Feb 21, 2022
Season 4 Review:
While it’s hard to say based on only three episodes that the show is anywhere near back to the heights of the beloved first season of the series, Neal has a steady handle on what works on Killing Eve. ... The show is at its best when it’s as off-kilter as Comer’s performance as Villanelle, and the first three hours capture that tone only sporadically
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Apr 16, 2020
Season 3 Review:
After a brilliant first season, Killing Eve lost some of its mojo in the second, and seems more listless in the third. Built around a game of cat and mouse between an office-bound MI6 investigator and a mercurial assassin, it continues to offer darkly amusing moments thanks to its splendid cast, but at this point, the main thing the show seems to be killing is time.
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The GuardianApr 13, 2020
Season 3 Review:
Like the second series, it is still a high-quality, high-wire act, but it cannot quite match the verve and wit of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s original episodes. A further burden now – and one shouldered by any subsequent series after one based on a cat-and-mouse premise – is that the artifice is showing.
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Apr 10, 2020
Season 3 Review:
“Killing Eve” isn’t a bad show now, but it’s a different show, in depressing ways — less vital, more ordinary. It is still shocking here and there but largely devoid of surprise. A mordant and sexy comic thriller edged with terror has become a competent psychodrama bordered with sentimentality. The air has gone out of it.
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Apr 9, 2020
Season 3 Review:
The show is committed to fascinating female characters—and it’s particularly rewarding to watch Oh perform her character’s deep grief and despair, lending surprising dignity to her disheveled sweatpants and plastic bags. But something about the humor skews horribly wrong. Villanelle has become so murderous that it's difficult to enjoy her humor. ... Killing Eve feels safe.
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Apr 13, 2020
Season 3 Review:
Season 3 extends the thinning plot and has trouble finding its mojo in the first four episodes reviewed here. ... It takes it quite a few episodes to get off the floor, into the shower, and back in the fold — and no matter how good Oh and Comer still are (and they are), it feels like a slog
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