Perspective: 'Killing Eve' strayed from the book it’s based on. It was a smart move.
By Stephanie Pomfrett March 5 at 8:00 AM When “Killing Eve” crashed on our screens last year, it felt like a breath of fresh air: a feisty and funny entry in the recent revival of the staid, stuffy and overwhelmingly masculine spy genre. With a second season about to air in April and the coming release of the second book in Luke Jennings’s “Codename Villanelle” series, it is clear Eve and Villanelle — the MI6 operative and the talented assassin she is tracking — will be with us a while longer.
What’s fascinating is a book so wedded to genre conventions, with two women operating in a masculine, violent world, has been transformed into a quirky, funny love letter to female obsession that feels authentic to female viewers. Under the guidance of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, best known in the U.K. for the show “Fleabag,” women are front and center. Eve is older.
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