A successful romcom series needs a hair-raising yet humorous boy-meets-girl plotline where the couple are occasionally separated by complicated obstacles, such as careers or loved ones, along with a dose of suspense and a pinch of seduction. Add drama, action and murder to the mix and you’ve got dry dramedy series Killing Eve (2018-now), but there’s a twist to the love arc – it features two women at its core.
The tale begins when desk-bound analyst Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh, Abby in 2017 in anthology drama series American Crime, 2015-2017) is tasked with solving a mysterious murder. “She is convinced that it’s a woman behind the crime, and much to Eve and her colleagues’ surprise, she is correct,” says 49-year-old Sandra. And it turns out that fashionable psychotic assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer, Kate in British medical drama series Doctor Foster, 2015-2017) has been on a killing spree.
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