Killing Eve

BBC iPlayer ayer

With BBC C Three back as a television ion channel, premiering ing the fourth and final series ies of Killing Eve on the iPlayer yer (albeit weekly episodes) s) feels like a peculiar ar way to treat one e of the broadcaster’s ster’s hottest properties. Or perhaps reflects decline spy thriller which once felt essential viewing but whose magic has now dissipated, the wobbly edifice now held together by the force of its jousting leads, Jodie Comer (assassin Villanelle) and Sandra Oh (MI6 operative Eve Polastri), with Laura Neal the latest showrunner to attempt to emulate Phoebe WallerBridge’s alchemical handling of the first run. Eve is now determined to ignore professional overtures from former boss Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) and personal ones from the obsessive Villanelle, instead opting to bring down sinister terrorist cabal caba The Twelve with just amiable ex-army man Yusuf (Robert Gilbert) Gil for company. Villanelle seems s to have converted to Christianity, Ch although it isn’t long before she has slipped back into old ol ways. If the narrative logic doesn’t does stand up to much scrutiny, it will w still be intriguing to see how Neal N ties it all up. Gabriel Tate Tat