Warning: Article contains spoilers for episode one of Killing Eve season two.
Killing Eve is back…across the pond.
Season two debuted in the US on Sunday night as Eve (Sandra Oh) and assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) picked up moments after they left off.
After Eve stabbed her nemesis in season one, Villanelle’s power was at its lowest ebb as the launch episode, Do You Know How To Dispose Of A Body, saw the killer trying to recover in hospital.
The security operative was offered a job by Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) back in London but struggled to deal with the gravity of what she had done, and was unable to tell those nearest to her.
Although she had been driven to stab Villanelle out of revenge, it meant that she was way in over her head and embedded in whatever game the assassin was playing with her.
Despite being weakened, Villanelle was still up to her old tricks as she tried to heal from her stab wound in hospital.
On the ward, she befriended a young boy who had suffered severe, disfiguring burns in a car crash which killed his family.
She started off being nice to him and listened to his fears for the future after his accident, but as she took him into her arms to hug him, she broke his neck before managing to escape.
Plus, she’s being hunted by mysterious organisation The Twelve who want to permanently get rid of the rebellious assassin.
Villanelle lives to murder another day, but new showrunner Emerald Fennell recently warned that no character is safe.
The writer told Variety: ‘I never wanted that thing that you often have with famous thriller character, which is, “They’ll all be fine!” I think it’s really important to say, “Okay well if this is a fight to the death, and demonstrably it is with what happened last [season], no one should feel safe.’
An example she gave was the death of Eve’s boss Frank (Darren Boyd) in season one.
Fennell explained that the ‘brutality’ of his death gave a ‘sense that both of them are getting into stuff that’s properly deadly’.
Killing Eve is leading the way at this year’s TV Baftas with a total of 14 nominations including best actress for both Comer and Oh, supporting actor and best drama.
Bafta defended the nominations after the show’s eligibility was called into question.
Bafta’s TV awards eligibility rules state that ‘programmes must have had their first transmission in the UK between 1 January and 31 December 2018’ and that ‘the programme must have had the worldwide premiere transmission in the UK’.
Killing Eve had its premiere in April on BBC America, which is owned by the BBC and American channel AMC, and considered a totally separate body to the BBC.
It aired in the UK on BBC Three and later BBC One last September.
Under the rules Killing Eve should not necessarily qualify for the categories it has landed in.
Bafta defended the nominations in a statement to Metro.co.uk, noting the ‘significant creative contribution from UK talent’.
Bafta said: ‘BAFTA’s Television Committee deems Killing Eve a British series.
‘Killing Eve received 14 nominations, 9 of which were eligible under BAFTA’s criteria, and 5 of which were deemed eligible by the TV committee due to the significant creative contribution from key UK talent throughout the production.
‘The Television committee is the arbiter of all eligibility.’
Killing Eve airs Sundays on BBC America and AMC and at a later date in the UK.
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