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Killing Eve
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★ 7.9A security consultant hunts for a ruthless assassin. Equally obsessed with each other, they go head to head in an epic game of cat-and-mouse.
- Aired
- 2018–2022
- Seasons
- 4 · 32 episodes
- Status
- Ended
- Created by
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge
- Network
- BBC America
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
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Key facts
- Genre
- Spy thriller Drama Black comedy Comedy-drama
- Based on
- Villanelle , by Luke Jennings
- Showrunners
- Phoebe Waller-Bridge Emerald Fennell Suzanne Heathcote Laura Neal
- Composers
- David Holmes Keefus Ciancia
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- English
- Number span no of episodes
- 32 ( list of episodes )
- Executive producers
- Sally Gentle Lee Morris Phoebe Waller-Bridge Emerald Fennell Gina Mingacci Sandra Oh Damon Thomas
- Producers
- Colin Wratten Elinor Day
- Camera setup
- Single-camera
- Running time
- 40–43 minutes
- Production companies
- Sid Gentle Films BBC America Original Production Endeavor Content
- Network
- BBC America
- Release
- 8 April 2018 ( 2018-04-08 ) –, 17 April 2022 ( 2022-04-17 )
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Encyclopedic overview
Killing Eve is a British black dramedy spy thriller television series produced in the United Kingdom by Sid Gentle Films for BBC America and BBC Three. The series follows Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh), a British intelligence investigator tasked with capturing psychopathic assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer). As the chase progresses, the two develop a mutual obsession. Based on the Villanelle novel series by Luke Jennings, each of the show's series is led by a different female head writer. The first series had Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the head writer, the second series Emerald Fennell, the third series Suzanne Heathcote, and the fourth series Laura Neal.
The first series premiered on BBC America on 8 April 2018, and on BBC iPlayer on 15 September 2018 through BBC Three. The third series premiered on 12 April 2020 for BBC America, and on 13 April 2020 for BBC iPlayer, and concluded on 31 May 2020. The fourth (and final) series premiered on 27 February 2022 on BBC America, 28 February 2022 on BBC iPlayer and 5 March 2022 on BBC One and concluded on 17 April 2022.
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