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As viewers ofKilling Evealready know, Gabriel is dead wrong.
No, the doctor tells her, those are for the younger patients.
A couple of minutes later, shes sucking on a lolly and wearing a sticker that says Superbe.
When one blue sweet falls out, a young boy reaches out to grab it.
The principal action is the recognizable stuff of most TV thrillers.
Villanelle keeps getting herself trapped into places and situations from which she has to engineer an escape.
But what happens inside the parentheses of all that is what distinguishesKilling Eveand makes it such a wicked pleasure.
Its my moisturizer, she responds.
Its made of pig placenta.
It costs a fortune and it smells like arse.
I dont mind smelling like arse, Eve responds.
Ill send you the link!
ButKilling Eveplays with crime series stereotypes in ways that dont always involve fashion or beauty.
While examining a cadaver at the medical examiners office, Eve says she needs to sit down.
Because cliche television and film has trained us to, we expect Eve to say she feels woozy.
Instead she asks for a burger; apparently the smell of formaldehyde makes her crave meat.
No, the line she quotes is from the movieClueless.
She can shift from helpless to droll to frustrated to brutal in the course of a single scene.
When Comer purposely flexes even the tiniest muscle duringKilling Eve, you sit up straighter in your seat.
A previous version of this review mistakenly said that Sandra Oh won an Emmy for herKilling Eveperformance.
In fact, she won a Golden Globe.
