Killing Eve bosses unveil gripping new trailer for season two

Not long to wait!

Author: Emma DoddsPublished 11th Mar 2019
Last updated 12th Jun 2020

Killing Eve captivated seemingly the entire world when the first season premiered last year. Thankfully, season two of Killing Eve is already on its way - and we don't have to wait long, either, as it's premiering in the US on BBC America on 7th April, and will be airing in the UK just a couple of months afterwards.

The first trailer for the show was released on Valentine's Day - an apt choice, considering that Eve and Villanelle's mutual obsession is bordering on something romantic. It confirmed to fans that Villanelle had survived the stabbing by Eve, and was on the run once again.

But show bosses have now released another trailer for the show, with less than one month to go before it begins airing in the US.

This time, we get to see more of the cat-and-mouse chasing between Eve and Villanelle that was so captivating in the first season. Plus, viewers are treated to a lot more of Villanelle's outrageous outfits, costumes and disguises.

This comes after Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who developed the series for TV, revealed why women are feeling 'oddly empowered' by the show, and seeing women be the ones with the knife in their hand as opposed to constantly being killed.

She said, "I think people are slightly exhausted by seeing women being brutalised on screen. We’re being allowed to see women on slabs the whole time and being beaten up, and in some ways that’s important to see because it shows the brutality against women. Seeing women being violent, the flipside of that is refreshing and oddly empowering."

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Screenwriter and producer Sarah Phelps agreed, adding, "An idea has been sold to us in the past, which is that women can be feisty, but what is really empowering now is that we are seeing characters with some really dark and secret parts of the psyche that we haven’t seen in the past.

"We’re now seeing much more layered and complex characters – that’s what Phoebe is talking about – instead of seeing women as cyphers for warped male fantasies."

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