Killing Eve
I'll Deal with Him Later
TV Flash files “I'll Deal with Him Later” as hour 2 of 32 in the TV Flash guide — Killing Eve (2018–2022) on BBC America, season 1, episode 2, aired 2018-04-15, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 32 in the Killing Eve guide, hour 2 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2018-04-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Nice Face” (S01E01). Next is “Don't I Know You?” (S01E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In the aftermath of her recent assignment, Villanelle is ordered to take a break. Never one to do as she's told, she goes ahead with her next mission regardless. Meanwhile, Eve is given a dream opportunity to join a secret MI6 unit tracking Villanelle and the shady organisation she works for.
Viewer FAQ
Where does I'll Deal with Him Later sit in the Killing Eve guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 32 — hour 2 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did Killing Eve S01E02 air?
I'll Deal with Him Later aired 2018-04-15 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
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- 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
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- Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Elena Felton
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- Darren Boyd as Frank Haleton
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