We really wanted to have a sense of scale, and how Villanelle could be thrown into any corner of the world to do a job and then for Eve to follow and show the realities of travelling." Oh, and the fact that Eve and Villanelle end up together in the book series Codename Villanelle the show is based on doesn’t help matters either. Luke then spoke out about Villanelle's captivating personality, "I always wanted to see how far I could push it, and how appalling I could make the character and have people still root for her. The show has been nominated for and won plenty of awards since it first aired in 2018. It won the 2019 British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Series, Best Leading Actress for Jodie Comer as Villanelle and Best Supporting Actress for Fiona Shaw as Carolyn Martens.

Speaking to Andrew Marr, Phoebe revealed that women everywhere are feeling "oddly empowered" by seeing women like this on TV. She said, "I think people are slightly exhausted by seeing women being brutalised on screen. BBC America, the original channel, said we couldn’t have that much blood on show, we couldn’t be too grotesque. The challenge was to make it feel very violent without actually showing anything. That’s a very different experience for the audience." Who are the Twelve in Killing Eve? Sandra Oh made history with her Golden Globe win in 2019 for Best Actress – Television Series Drama, as well as Jodie winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. He said, "I'd often thought of the idea of never having to worry about money. You could live the life you wanted but in return you have to every so often, just go and kill someone. She is the person who says 'Yes' to that deal. You know, it suits her, it really works for her."Phoebe also dropped hints that she could be set to appear in the third season, telling the Mirror, "I was like, I am going to write myself a part so that I can be murdered by Jodie." Of the multiple filming locations, writer and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge said, "We’ve been all over the shop! We’ve been to Paris, Berlin, Tuscany, London and Romania - we were filming the Russian element of the story there. Eve and Villanelle were both “bad” for each other and they both needed to escape the toxic relationship they were in— pinning that blame too on the canonically queer character seems messy. Killing Eve season 2 began airing in the UK on Saturday 8th June. Not only were all the episodes available to stream on BBC iPlayer from then, but they also aired weekly on BBC One, having starting on Saturday 8th June at 9.15pm with the finale airing on 27th July. While the fourth season of Killing Eve is sadly the last, there has been talk of a spin-off show. It was announced in April 2022, that BBC America and AMC Networks were in the early stages of creating a show which follows the story of Carolyn Martens. What happened in season three of Killing Eve?

And I don’t know if I could have scaled a wall quite like she could have done, and I'm not in my early 40s either." Executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle added, "We didn't want to find one location that doubles for everything, so we set ourselves the rather awkward challenge of filming a story where the series is set. And so we filmed in Tuscany for Tuscany, and we filmed in Paris and Berlin, and we filmed in Romania. Phoebe also revealed that she quite fancied one of the lead roles for herself, but ultimately decided that she wasn't right for either part, "I just had a really strong instinct that there should be this age gap because I just felt like it was something I hadn't seen. I'm not a 25-year-old Jodie Comer – I mean, let's be frank.There's no part of her life that she isn't in charge of. Here is somebody who is notionally answerable to her boss, but does what she likes and lives exactly the life that she wants. And just at the end of doing some really gruesome killing, she just sort of walks away happily into the sunlight and moves on." Villanelle's style BBC confirmed the news that Killing Eve would be getting a third season just one day after the second series began airing in the US. Along with the news of a third season came the update that Phoebe's role of showrunner will be taken over by Suzanne Heathcote, who will serve as the show's lead writer and executive producer. The air date for Killing Eve season three was moved forward for both the UK and the US, and the first episode was released at 6am on 13th April on the BBC iPlayer. Each episode was then released each Monday, with an airing on Sunday evenings. We’re being allowed to see women on slabs the whole time and being beaten up, and in some ways that’s important to see because it shows the brutality against women. Seeing women being violent, the flipside of that is refreshing and oddly empowering."

Read our full recap of everything that happened in Killing Eve season three. When did Killing Eve season three air in the UK? Killing Eve is based on Codename Villanelle, a fictional thriller novel written by British author Luke Jennings which was published in 2018. It was originally published as four e-book novellas available on Kindle, entitled Codename Villanelle, Villanelle: Hollowpoint, Villanelle: Shanghai and Odessa.She also revealed why there's not much blood in the series, "Strangely, there’s hardly any blood, there’s hardly any gruesomeness that we were allowed to show... There’s a man on the slab but no bits on show. We have just as much respect the other way around. Luke Jennings spoke out about what inspired him to write the character of Villanelle in July 2020, telling the BBC that she "just came to him" fully formed, and that she "didn't enormously change" from then.

Hugo was another new character for series two, played by Edward Bluemel. He was described as follows: 'No one has ever said "no" to Hugo in his entire life. This is a man-boy so used to getting what he wants that people automatically just give it to him. Hugo wafted through Eton and Oxford, and was absolutely delighted to get the tap on the shoulder (from an old friend of Daddy's). He's not remotely surprised or grateful that, in his twenties, he is in a major Counter-Terrorism department in MI6. He's totally disrespectful to his elders and betters entitlement personified, but unfortunately, he is also completely irresistible. Kenny absolutely hates him.'