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title: Killing Eve
type: Television
date: 2021-06-04
rating: 6
year: 2016
status: Finished
image: killing-eve.jpg
tags:
  - television
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 The first season was messy and a bit spottily plotted but glorious: the acting was top notch, the subversions were all there, and it was just _joyous_. The plot alone would have been great, and the acting alone would have been great, and the aesthetic & costuming just brings everything over the top! 

The second season, though... much less so. No characterizations make sense; Sandra Oh’s character becomes uninteresting and unconvincing, and the plot feels... like fanfiction. (Someone called “The Ghost”? Really?) It left a bad enough taste in our mouths that we’re not interested in a third season, which is a shame. (I am going to start calling this the Mandalorian Effect.)