Killing Eve
Don't I Know You?
TV Flash files “Don't I Know You?” as hour 3 of 32 in the TV Flash guide — Killing Eve (2018–2022) on BBC America, season 1, episode 3, aired 2018-04-22, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E03: listed hour 3 of 32 in the Killing Eve guide, hour 3 of 8 in season 1. It aired 2018-04-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “I'll Deal with Him Later” (S01E02). Next is “Sorry Baby” (S01E04).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Villanelle kills a Chinese Colonel at a kink clinic in Berlin, Eve and Bill travel out to investigate. While Eve and Bill chase up a number of promising leads, Villanelle enjoys the cat and mouse of their proximity. But as they draw closer, Eve comes to realise that this is much more than a game.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Don't I Know You? sit in the Killing Eve guide?
S01E03 is listed hour 3 of 32 — hour 3 of 8 in season 1, season 1 episode 3.
When did Killing Eve S01E03 air?
Don't I Know You? aired 2018-04-22 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
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- 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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