WHAT IT'S ABOUT: By the close of the first season, MI5 agent Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh) had been fired by Carolyn Martens (Fiona Shaw) from her off-the-books secret group formed to catch just one brutal assassin. But Eve had also finally cornered that assassin, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) in her Paris apartment. "God, I'm tired," Eve said while lying down on Villanelle's bed. When Villanelle lay next to her, Eve turned to stab her. Cut to ... the new season. Carolyn still needs Eve, who needs to sort out in her own head exactly what happened back in Paris. Was it madness? Or was it love? Or does she just need a new set of expensive windows in her London flat? Meanwhile, Villanelle has escaped once again. She also has to sort through feelings _ unexpected ones for someone like her.
MY SAY: There was never any doubt that BBC America would order a second season of this sensation and so little doubt that the second was ordered before the first even aired. "Eve" _ sight still unseen _ was considered that hot a property, and for good reason, or reasons: Oh, Comer, Shaw and the rest of a superb cast, some of whom would find their characters in a pool of blood before all was said and done.
But the second posed certain difficult challenges that the first had set up, specifically that closing erotic scene, sealed by blood and a twist of the knife. Eve changed in that instance, and so did Villanelle. The hunter became the assassin, the obsession turned to madness, as all obsessions must.
