Review of Killing Eve

"Killing Eve" is based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings. Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a beautiful woman who works as assassin for a secret organization. She has a decidedly twisted personality. She has no more reluctance to killing a person than to killing a mosquito. She does mean things for fun. She is very talented assassin. And she seems (to me) possibly to have multiple personalties. Jodie Comer does a remarkable instance transformations from one to the other. Sandra Oh has an Emmy nomination for her part as Eve, a British intelligence analyst who is fascinated by the clues and personality quirks of this assassin. Shed ends up almost accidentally as a field agent pursuing Villanelle, who in turn becomes fascinated with Eve. But the Emmys neglected to nominate Jodie Comer. Sandra Oh gives a remarkable performance in the kind of role she never expected to get because typically she is offered only ethnic roles. Still, I think Jodie Comer's performance as the title character of the books on which the series is based is at least as award worthy.