Killer Queen

Doctor Foster star Jodie Comer plays a kick-ass assassin in BBC1’s quirky new thriller Killing Eve

- Victoria Wilson

NEW DRAMA

Killing Eve

Saturday, BBC1 HD, 9.15pm

After roles in My Mad Fat Diary and Thirteen, Jodie Comer became a household name in 2015 as ‘other woman’ Kate Parks in BBC1’s acclaimed drama Doctor Foster.

And proving that there’s no limit to her talents, this week she plays a fearsome Russian assassin in BBC1’s unconventional and darkly funny new thriller Killing Eve.

Adapted by Fleabag star Phoebe WallerBridge from the books by Luke Jennings, the eight-part drama is centred on MI5 officer Eve Polastri, played by Grey’s Anatomy actress Sandra Oh, who finds herself on the trail of a contract killer, code-named Villanelle, played by Comer.

As the series begins, Eve is bored in her desk job at MI5 when news comes in of a string of high-profile murders across Europe, including a shady Russian diplomat in Vienna and a Mafia boss in Tuscany.

A WOMAN’S TOUCH 

After interviewing the diplomat’s girlfriend, Eve becomes convinced that the flamboyant killer is a woman and becomes hell-bent on catching Villanelle, who lives alone in Paris and receives her orders from her handler Konstantin (Kim Bodnia).