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Killing Eve. BBC/Sid Gentle/Steve Schofield

November 15, 2019

How Killing Eve and James Bond spied on the past

Erica Wickerson, University of Cambridge

Killing Eve may seem like an ultra-modern take on the spy genre but it is more traditional that it seems.

June 19, 2019

Killing Eve, sausages and the sexual politics of meat

Ellen Turner, Lund University

What’s with all the sausages in Killing Eve? It’s a thriller that gives butchery a new meaning.

Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer as an MI6 agent and a psychopathic assassin. BBC

September 28, 2018

Killing Eve: twisting the spy genre with comedy, tragedy and strong women

Helena Bassil-Morozow, Glasgow Caledonian University

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s funny, sassy, violent script doesn’t make a drama out of the two strong female leads, it normalises them.

Sandra Oh, a U.S./Canadian actress of Korean descent, is an outspoken advocate for greater representation in film and television. She is the first woman of Asian decent to be nominated for an Emmy. Here, just before being inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Vincent Elkaim

July 31, 2018

Thank you, Sandra Oh – a first for the Emmys

Angie Wong, York University, Canada

Sandra Oh’s recent Emmy nomination for ‘Killing Eve’ is a sign of appreciation of her work but also a symbol of hope for the author as a former actor and as an academic.

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