“A young woman sits in a Vienna café, watching a sweet little girl across the room smile as she eats an ice cream.
“The woman gets up to leave, walks up to the girl… and deliberately knocks the child’s dessert into her lap as she passes.
“Meet cold-hearted Villanelle (Jodie Comer): an international – and clearly psychopathic – assassin who is so nasty she enjoys being mean to cute little kiddies.
“I guess we should be just grateful she didn’t stab the poor child in the eye as she went by.
“With such a sly introduction to one of Killing Eve’s main characters, it comes as no surprise to learn that this series – based on Luke Jenning’s novellas Codename Villanelle – has been developed for television by the talented Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator of cult series Fleabag.”
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