The show has been nominated for and won plenty of awards since it first aired in 2018. It won the 2019 British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Series, Best Leading Actress for Jodie Comer as Villanelle and Best Supporting Actress for Fiona Shaw as Carolyn Martens.

Eve and Villanelle were both “bad” for each other and they both needed to escape the toxic relationship they were in— pinning that blame too on the canonically queer character seems messy.

When was series four of Killing Eve released?

We’re being allowed to see women on slabs the whole time and being beaten up, and in some ways that’s important to see because it shows the brutality against women. Seeing women being violent, the flipside of that is refreshing and oddly empowering." Killing Eve is based on Codename Villanelle, a fictional thriller novel written by British author Luke Jennings which was published in 2018. It was originally published as four e-book novellas available on Kindle, entitled Codename Villanelle, Villanelle: Hollowpoint, Villanelle: Shanghai and Odessa. And I don’t know if I could have scaled a wall quite like she could have done, and I'm not in my early 40s either." She also revealed why there's not much blood in the series, "Strangely, there’s hardly any blood, there’s hardly any gruesomeness that we were allowed to show... There’s a man on the slab but no bits on show. We have just as much respect the other way around. While the fourth season of Killing Eve is sadly the last, there has been talk of a spin-off show. It was announced in April 2022, that BBC America and AMC Networks were in the early stages of creating a show which follows the story of Carolyn Martens. What happened in season three of Killing Eve?

Killing Eve season 2 began airing in the UK on Saturday 8th June. Not only were all the episodes available to stream on BBC iPlayer from then, but they also aired weekly on BBC One, having starting on Saturday 8th June at 9.15pm with the finale airing on 27th July. He said, "I'd often thought of the idea of never having to worry about money. You could live the life you wanted but in return you have to every so often, just go and kill someone. She is the person who says 'Yes' to that deal. You know, it suits her, it really works for her."

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Luke Jennings spoke out about what inspired him to write the character of Villanelle in July 2020, telling the BBC that she "just came to him" fully formed, and that she "didn't enormously change" from then. BBC America, the original channel, said we couldn’t have that much blood on show, we couldn’t be too grotesque. The challenge was to make it feel very violent without actually showing anything. That’s a very different experience for the audience." Who are the Twelve in Killing Eve? Phoebe also revealed that she quite fancied one of the lead roles for herself, but ultimately decided that she wasn't right for either part, "I just had a really strong instinct that there should be this age gap because I just felt like it was something I hadn't seen. I'm not a 25-year-old Jodie Comer – I mean, let's be frank. There's no part of her life that she isn't in charge of. Here is somebody who is notionally answerable to her boss, but does what she likes and lives exactly the life that she wants. And just at the end of doing some really gruesome killing, she just sort of walks away happily into the sunlight and moves on." Villanelle's style We really wanted to have a sense of scale, and how Villanelle could be thrown into any corner of the world to do a job and then for Eve to follow and show the realities of travelling."