Killing Eve
Nice Face
TV Flash files “Nice Face” as a desk essential hour — Killing Eve (2018–2022) on BBC America, season 1, episode 1, aired 2018-04-08, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 32 in the Killing Eve guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2018-04-08 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “I'll Deal with Him Later” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Nice Face”. Nice Face is Waller-Bridge's season-one dare: Oh and Comer as chase-as-courtship, fashion as threat display on first look.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
MI5 security officer Eve Polastri is bored in her job and yearns for a more exciting life. When a Russian politician is murdered, Eve is tasked with protecting the only witness and soon finds herself on a collision course with violent and extraordinary assassin, Villanelle.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Nice Face sit in the Killing Eve guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 32 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Killing Eve S01E01 air?
Nice Face aired 2018-04-08 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Did Phoebe Waller-Bridge write the whole series?
She wrote season one. Later seasons had different writers and showrunners — which is exactly why the quality-wars discourse exists.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Bored analyst Eve and stylish assassin Villanelle: chase as courtship, fashion as threat display. Phoebe Waller-Bridge's season-one scripts from Luke Jennings made Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer a prestige export; Comer took the Emmy. Later seasons varied writers and heat. Spy TV that treats longing as tradecraft — season one is the purest hit of tone.
Fashion as threat display. Bored intelligence analyst Eve Polastri becomes enthralled with stylish psychopath assassin Villanelle — chase as courtship, pink as a dare. Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote season one from Luke Jennings's *Codename Villanelle* novels for BBC America (April 8, 2018). Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer make obsession look like chemistry and danger; Comer won Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. Fiona Shaw and Kim Bodnia keep the spy apparatus dryly lethal. **This was a hard launch in a killer…
Filed against
- Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri
Sandra Oh’s Cristina Yang made Grey’s Anatomy sound like a surgical dare — Meredith’s person, hallway trauma as a rope line, and Shonda Rhimes teaching network television to ship in scrubs. On TV Flash she is the intern-class steel that…
- Jodie Comer as Villanelle
Jodie Comer turned Villanelle into Killing Eve’s stylish threat display — chase as courtship, fashion as a weapon, prestige spy TV that treated an assassin like a crush. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s season-one scripts from Luke Jennings made…
- Fiona Shaw as Carolyn Martens
Fiona Shaw’s Carolyn Martens made Killing Eve a handler with ice in the tea — 2010s catalog chase-as-courtship, then True Detective: Night Country stretching the steel into sunless Alaska. TV Flash files her as the MI6 weather that can…
- Kim Bodnia as Konstantin Vasiliev
Kim Bodnia's Konstantin Vasiliev handled Killing Eve from the handler's chair — bored analyst versus stylish assassin, chase as courtship, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's season-one scripts as a prestige export. Fashion as threat display. TV Flash…
- Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Elena Felton
Kirby Howell-Baptiste’s Elena Felton kept Killing Eve’s MI6 desk human while Eve and Villanelle turned chase into courtship — fashion as threat display — then stepped into The Sandman’s comic-accurate weird. Prestige spy-fi with a…
- Darren Boyd as Frank Haleton
Darren Boyd’s Frank Haleton walked Killing Eve as MI6 furniture with a pulse — bored analyst Eve, stylish assassin Villanelle, chase as courtship. Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s season-one scripts from Luke Jennings made Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer…