Killing Eve, Season 2 Episode 1, Very good episode
7 Reviews
Detailed Note: 8,9
Rodzman27 July 2020
Engaging
rafacrackafoot4 June 2019
Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?
Prismark1010 June 2019
The first episode of season 2 begins just 30 seconds after the first series finale.
Eve seems to have no idea why she stabbed Villanelle and just wants to get out of Paris. Eve is hysterical but she needs to keep her wits. Some people have been sent to kill Villanelle and Eve needs to avoid them.
Eve seems to have been infected by Villanelle's madness. She even orders lots and lots of double glazing. Of course she has to face her boss Caroyln who wants to know what happened in Paris.
Villanelle meanwhile needs to get to a hospital fast and get herself stitched up as she senses people might be after her.
Phoebe Waller Bridge has not written the second series and it shows. New writer Emerald Fennell is maybe trying too hard to copy Phoebe's template, such as the fate of the poor lad in hospital. There are new seeds planted for stories in the second series. I also thought that the pace slackened as the episode went on.
Eve seems to have no idea why she stabbed Villanelle and just wants to get out of Paris. Eve is hysterical but she needs to keep her wits. Some people have been sent to kill Villanelle and Eve needs to avoid them.
Eve seems to have been infected by Villanelle's madness. She even orders lots and lots of double glazing. Of course she has to face her boss Caroyln who wants to know what happened in Paris.
Villanelle meanwhile needs to get to a hospital fast and get herself stitched up as she senses people might be after her.
Phoebe Waller Bridge has not written the second series and it shows. New writer Emerald Fennell is maybe trying too hard to copy Phoebe's template, such as the fate of the poor lad in hospital. There are new seeds planted for stories in the second series. I also thought that the pace slackened as the episode went on.
Never the same after S1
lynnmccullough-071639 February 2021
Though Comer, Oh, and supporting cast remain outstanding, Killing Eve was simply never the same after Phoebe Waller-Bridges left the helm. It's a pity: the anthology-style concept of having a different person head up writing each season is intriguing. But it seems Waller-Bridges created characters and a world--and, most of all, a relationship--unique and spiky enough that no one else can quite plug into it. Certainly not Emerald Fennell, whose season 2 is full of cartoonish gestures and self-caricature. (Not to mention Nina Sosanya filling the void left in the cast by Kirby Howell-Baptiste in a manner that feels uncomfortably fungible--though in all fairness, the sidelining of Howell-Baptiste's character is a problem the first season created.) As with so many shows, best way to watch Killing Eve is to stop at the end of season 1.
What a mess
paul_mcdonald_1007 June 2019
After the brilliance of the first series, this second series is such a mess. First few episodes get things going ok but by the end everything is crawling to the finishing line. Jodie Comer remains astonishing but even she can't save this. Who thought this was good drama? All the key characters are wasted. As anyone who has made films knows, if a scene doesn't work, compensate with some great music, yet here the sounds of Unloved end up over used to the point of boredom. I hear a third series has got the greenlight but I really don't care.
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