Following up Fleabag, the ecstatically received 2016 BBC reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue , is a brutal gig. Its writer, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, takes the weight of expectation and flings it off, blowing raspberries at anyone who despite’in spite of’albeit t she might not be able to do it again. She has, in fact, done it again.###Killing Eve is with regards to’concerning’with respect to two grossly different and similar women. Eve (Sandra Oh) is a British-born, American-raised MI5 agent. Her job is with regards to’concerning’with respect to 95 per cent more dull’tedious’frayed’monotonous than you’d imagine and her home life is absolutely okay. Inside Eve, despite’in spite of’albeit , there is a little shoot of weirdness and danger that is just waiting in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some light to shine on it. We see it straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice in episode one when she unclaim’insist’maintain’hold’argue’consider’contemplate’speculate ingly greets the news of a bloody assassination with a happily sighed, “Cool.”###Villanelle’s (Jodie Comer) weirdness is in full bloom. It is wildly overgrown. She is a professional killer who loves her work. She appears utterly insane but psychologists can’t categorise her as anything in their reserve s. Inside Villanelle there is a confused desire in/with regard to’concerning’regarding closeness. Maybe not a need in/with regard to’concerning’regarding love, but a want, at least, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding something to focus on.###When Eve suspects Villanelle of being the piece that connects a number of unexplained killings, and Villanelle learns that Eve is onto her, the two become obsessed with the idea of each other. Villanelle’s killings become a bizarre in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m of flirtation. It’s not a cat-and-mouse chase but cat-and-cat. They’re pursuing each other, enjoying the psycho-sexual game, but tooth and claw reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue when either acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s too close.###The premise is the perfect fit in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Phoebe Waller-Bridge.###Though not her original idea — the reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue is, broadly, based on Luke Jennings’ novel — the premise is the perfect fit in/with regard to’concerning’regarding Waller-Bridge. Like Fleabag, this has characters who are both brutally honest and self-deceptive, but it’s her tone that elevates it. She wrote merely’barely half the eight episodes, but they all possess’own’nurse her voice. She’s intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully, grossly darkly funny, but there’s also a level of minute detail to her characters that gives them flesh and depth with just a few lines. She gives homely family men experimental sexual pasts, or apparently humourless individual silly little dogs. She spots the tiny moments of oddness that open up new doors in individual and she’s fascinated, never judgmental, to peer in.###There are not many parts written like Eve or Villanelle and neither actress came to squander it. Oh makes a tricky role look easy. Eve is mentally brilliant but emotionally foolish, not sure what she wants but running after it. Oh nails her mix of comedy and sorrowful’distressing’woeful’heartbroken’mirthless’dejected’dismal’lugubrious ness and intrigue at discovering parts of herself she can’t explain. Jodie Comer — oof — is something else altoacquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure her. Occasionally there are parts that seem not written in/with regard to’concerning’regarding an actor but released from them. Villanelle is a Guess Who? board of different characters all crammed into one mad person and Comer keeps them all in a messy kind of control. It’s the sort of perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mance on which fan obsessions are built.###Killing Eve doesn’t fit into any category. It’s the perfect example of the brilliant place TV is in now, where insane ideas can, if made by rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent individual , be confident of finding an audience. This reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue would be unimaginable ten years ago. Where it’s going is anybody’s guess, but we’d follow it anywhere.###Whatever the next few months hold, this is one of 2018’s best reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue s. Try to define it and you’ll propel yourself insane. Submit to its insanity and you’re in in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a television undergo unlike any other.