<P> Irish broadcaster RTÉ2 was the first broadcaster in Europe to premiere the show, and the first episode was broadcast August 27, 2018 . </P> <P> The show has a 97% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 58 reviews, the consensus stating: "Seductive and surprising, Killing Eve's twist on the spy vs. spy concept rewards viewers with an audaciously entertaining show that finally makes good use of Sandra Oh's talents ." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 83 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". </P> <P> Jenna Scherer, writing in Rolling Stone, described Killing Eve as "hilarious, bloody, unclassifiable" and idiosyncratic, "a stylish story of obsession and psychopathy that's disarmingly warm and lived - in". Scherer went on to write that the show "undermines every rule of TV", with what it does best being its "dry wit, razor - wire tension, sex appeal and the looming threat of violence". Hanh Nguyen wrote on IndieWire that one of the show's most appealing aspects is "how it subverts expectation", allowing it to "constantly surprise and delight". Along the same lines, Troy Patterson wrote in The New Yorker that the story discloses "a life independent of genre conventions" and that the triumph of the show's style is its "reconciliation of the outlandish and the intimate", adding that the "Jason Bourne - style escapism of the bare premise, inflected by the assertively odd tone, yields fresh depictions of fear and grief". In the context of Vulture's selection of Sandra Oh as the best actress on television (June 2018), Matt Zoller Seitz wrote that there was "no precedent" for the "wild extremes" of the show's "comedy and thriller elements". While Mike Hale acknowledged in The New York Times that "scenes and characterizations play out differently than we're used to" and the comic style is distinctive, he also wrote--in contrast to most reviewers--of being "just as conscious of (the show's) congruences with standard examples of the genre...as...of the differences", citing Berlin Station, La Femme Nikita, Covert Affairs and Homeland . </P> <P> Scherer described the show as a feminine take on a traditionally masculine genre--"more interested in giving space to character beats and the weird chaos that can leak into the best - laid plans". Similarly, Melanie McFarland wrote for Salon that Killing Eve has been dubbed a "feminist thriller", calling it a "perfect show for the #MeToo era," saying that it "slakes one's desire to see piggish misogynists get what's coming to them" but also delves into complex trust issues among women and shows "sisterhood's might and peril (as) powerful...but...also complicated and devoid of guarantees". Along the same lines, Willa Paskin wrote in Slate that Killing Eve is a story about "the literal dangers of underestimating women: of not seeing the woman who can kill you, underestimating the woman who can stop her". Paskin added that the "disfigured, beating heart" of the program is "the way that Villanelle's gender and manner, her very femininity, keep our acculturated brains from being appropriately terrified of her". </P>

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