Killing Eve
Nice and Neat
TV Flash files “Nice and Neat” as hour 10 of 32 in the TV Flash guide — Killing Eve (2018–2022) on BBC America, season 2, episode 2, aired 2019-04-14, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E02: listed hour 10 of 32 in the Killing Eve guide, hour 2 of 8 in season 2. It aired 2019-04-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Do You Know How to Dispose of a Body?” (S02E01). Next is “The Hungry Caterpillar” (S02E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Carolyn introduces Eve to her new team before Eve briefs them on the Villanelle case. Villanelle, needing to lie low while she recovers, finds a good Samaritan to take her in and care for her.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Nice and Neat sit in the Killing Eve guide?
S02E02 is listed hour 10 of 32 — hour 2 of 8 in season 2, season 2 episode 2.
When did Killing Eve S02E02 air?
Nice and Neat aired 2019-04-14 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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