Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost Photos: BBC AmericaIn Episode 4 of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s new thriller “Killing Eve,” MI5 officer Eve Polastri, played by Sandra Oh, receives an unusual gift. There was a problem processing your signup; please try again later FacebookTwitterYoutube “Killing Eve,” based on Luke Jenning’s “Villanelle” novels, follows the titular character in her quest to track down the unyielding murderess Villanelle. The obsession is a salve, a way of coping with the cannonade of threats ― violent and not ― women face in daily life. However, like the BBC series twists the gown-as-gift trope into a fun-house version of itself, “Killing Eve” transfigures our true-crime obsession into an untamable, Cerberus-like variant. “When a woman commits a crime, she’s not only transgressing laws, she’s transgressing gender roles.”When a woman commits a crime, she’s not only transgressing laws, she’s transgressing gender roles.

Source: Huffington Post April 11, 2018 14:50 UTC