Can an hour-long TV drama skate by on scampish wit alone? That seems to be the gamble that Killing Eve's new showrunner Suzanne Heathcote, taking over from Emerald Fennell, is taking for the BBC America series' third season.
The first two scenes of Killing Eve's promising premiere — set at a gloomy gymnastics training session in 1970s Russia and a ravishingly elegant castle wedding in current-day Spain, respectively — feature exactly the kind of mischievously malevolent twists with which creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge distinguished the first season.
Their tableaux of antisocial violence slashing at romantic hope boast a sense of focus sorely missing from Season 2. Reverting to Waller-Bridge's women-behaving-very-badly sensibility, Season 3.
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