Intimations of mortality
The brilliantly scripted Killing Eve (RTÉ One) is a terrific new series based on the four novellas written by Luke Jennings that make up Codename Villanelle
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Killing Eve RTÉ One
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Remember Fleabag (Channel 4), that brilliantly bleak original comedy written by, and starring, the highly talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge? In the title role, she played a self-described “greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally-bankrupt woman who can’t even call herself a feminist”. To which might be added “who brings utter chaos to the lives of those around her”.
After that, what’s a girl to do? Something completely different, like creating the brilliantly scriptedKilling Eve(RTÉ One) a terrific new series based on the four novellas written by Luke Jennings that make up Codename Villanelle.
