Killing Eve

[K12beano]

petop said:

clarky92 said:

3 episodes into series 2 now.

Absolutely love it

Same, some of the one-liners from my now favourite actress/assasin are awesome.

Also enjoyed the first three.

Mrs Beano is getting a bit worried about the things I seem to find incredibly funny....

....but also, those one-liners are superbly written and delivered from left, right and centre. Gripping stuff in its bleak, black way!

[Taylor James]

J4CKO said:

Removed the spoiler, though had kept it vague.

I get the premise, it just seemed all over the place and not really plausible, even suspending disbelief.

Villanelle sort of remind me of a mental psychotic Marmalade Atkins (80s kids tv)

You probably didn't like Pulp Fiction then, or Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Die Hard, The Terminator and Predator?

Do you prefer realistic stuff like The Bodyguard or In Bruges?

[Gretchen]

I never saw any of S1. Then Saturday caught the first episode of S2. So decided I’d go back to the beginning.

Ooops. S1 and S2 now completed. Need sleep.

[davek_964]

Intended to watch just one episode last night - ended up watching 3, and forced myself to stop there.

Really enjoyed it. I think it's funnier than S1 - really made me laugh on a number of occasions.

[cerb4.5lee]

davek_964 said:

Really enjoyed it. I think it's funnier than S1 - really made me laugh on a number of occasions.

S2(I'm on ep 5) hasn't engaged me as much as S1 did, but I have laughed a lot more though with S2 for sure.

[LordHaveMurci]

How are you watching S2?

[biggbn]

LordHaveMurci said:

How are you watching S2?

Box set BBC I player

[Stev8s]

BBC1 iplayer

[Mark-C]

biggbn said:

LordHaveMurci said:

How are you watching S2?

Box set BBC I player

We're going old school … watched S2E1 at the weekend with Mrs-C and enjoyed it. She was a massive fan of S1 so I thought I'd see if I enjoy it and loved it so binge watched to catch up. It's going to be our Saturday night treat for the rest of the series (plus Pizza and wine) so I will now back out of this thread to avoid spoilers!

[CAPP0]

I can't quite get my head around the way that the show can't decide whether its a slapstick comedy or a murderous thriller, and ends up being neither. If they did one thing or the other with it, either would probably be much better. Some of the stuff is just ridiculous, without being funny, and then it veers off into the serious.

[Evercross]

CAPP0 said:

I can't quite get my head around the way that the show can't decide whether its a slapstick comedy or a murderous thriller, and ends up being neither.

I felt the same way to begin with, but don't over-analyse because it is definitely both and like all black comedy there isn't a clear delineation between what is supposed to be funny and what is supposed to be shocking.

That's the point!

Key example - when Vilanelle breaks the neck of the 14 year-old boy who had been horribly maimed and lost both his parents in a car accident. Sounds horrific when described that way and it is, but it was a brilliant scene as it comes as a total surprise but in retrospect was signposted well, and the viewer is left questioning their own perception of the murder as possibly a mercy killing.

[SpeckledJim]

Evercross said:

CAPP0 said:

I can't quite get my head around the way that the show can't decide whether its a slapstick comedy or a murderous thriller, and ends up being neither.

I felt the same way to begin with, but don't over-analyse because it is definitely both and like all black comedy there isn't a clear delineation between what is supposed to be funny and what is supposed to be shocking.

That's the point!

Key example - when Vilanelle breaks the neck of the 14 year-old boy who had been horribly maimed and lost both his parents in a car accident. Sounds horrific when described that way and it is, but it was a brilliant scene as it comes as a total surprise but in retrospect was signposted well, and the viewer is left questioning their own perception of the murder as possibly a mercy killing.

I think because she's extremely literal, she reads a bit too much into what he says, seeing it almost as an instruction. Or at least, a natural decision from the circumstances as he laid them out. It wasn't malicious, just a bit, umm, misguided.

[Evercross]

SpeckledJim said:

I think because she's extremely literal, she reads a bit too much into what he says, seeing it almost as an instruction. Or at least, a natural decision from the circumstances as he laid them out. It wasn't malicious, just a bit, umm, misguided.

Classic behavioural traits of a psychopath. That's why it is so well written.

[WinstonWolf]

Episode 4, that outfit!

[SpeckledJim]

WinstonWolf said:

Episode 4, that outfit!

Many outfits, many episodes. She's very lovely.

[LordHaveMurci]

biggbn said:

LordHaveMurci said:

How are you watching S2?

Box set BBC I player

Got it. For some reason not available on iPlayer through Tivo box so watching it through the app on the TV.

[Evercross]

LordHaveMurci said:

Got it. For some reason not available on iPlayer through Tivo box so watching it through the app on the TV.

It is, but not through the standard search (not unusual).

Go via 'Catch Up' > Channels > BBC Iplayer menus.

Both series are available this way, whereas if you search you only get the last 5 of series 1 and the first of series 2 (it only seems to manage to hold 6 episodes in total in the search results).

[petop]

WinstonWolf said:

Episode 4, that outfit!

The Amsterdam scene......yes totally agree, she could re-arrange my insides dressed like that! lol

[RichB]

Has anyone read the books, they don't get great reviews in Amazon.

[sparkythecat]

I watched the first series and enjoyed it.

I watched the first episode of series 2 and won't be watching any more. Too much banal filler and not enough action.