"One of the many grand achievements of the thrillingly addictive new BBC America series Killing Eve," says Tim Goodman, "is that once it fails to be a revolution of the form (and yes, it's hard not to have expectations for it to be so), it still manages to become quite the prize: a spy vs. assassin battle in which both players are women (Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer); both are badass in their own ways, but neither is robotically flawless; both are funny in the midst of violence; and both are emotionally nuanced — which is not a surprise since the show was written by another supremely talented woman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge." He adds: "Waller-Bridge takes these two talented actresses and doesn't just drop them into roles traditionally (and tiredly) given to men, but shapes the characters to be a whole lot more than a mere gender flip for the genre."
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TOPICS: Killing Eve, BBC America, Grey's Anatomy, Jodie Comer, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Sandra Oh