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Baffling to understand all the acclaim this show has received. Multiple plotholes,, illogical actions by characters and scenes that go nowhere. Good acting all around but the storyline veers all over the place. A lot of lesbian overtones and tasteless humor regarding castration of men. A final episode that lands with a loud klunk and merely sets up the show for a second season. Hard to work out what the whole point of this show is as it is called Killing Eve but the opportunities for the assassin Oksana to do so are constantly sidestepped for absolutely no reason than to move the story in another direction. Baffling illogicalities in the character's actions and unconvincing dialog that merely illustrates the writer's mindset at the moment of writing, possibly inspired by one too many gin and tonics and merely composed for self-amusement. A disappointment this viewer would rather not repeat.

Terrific concept of a man hired to rescue a bride from an arranged marriage in India. Unfortunately not enough twists and turns and a third act with a dopey, sentimental ending. When the girl turns out not to be as much of a victim as one surmised and the story veers towards a will she/won't she double-cross her kidnapper/savior one hopes that the plotting will veer into darker territory. Alas the story becomes merely sentimental and the ending sputters out. A shame as this could have been a terrific watch. The vast majority of the movie is filmed on the streets of India and is a delight to observe. Dev Patel gives a wonderful performance that ALMOST makes up for the deficiencies of the script. One minor observation, late in the film it is very obviously pointed out that Dev's character does not know how to swim, which makes one wonder if the runaway bride will attempt to drown him -- which fails to happen, but thinking back to an earlier scene Dev is observed swimming in a hotel swimming pool. Curious mistake. The film fails to work due to a lackluster script and dialogue that seems improvised. A cut above a lot of low budget movies but needed a better script.

I was so looking forward to this mini-series but was woefully disappointed. Helen Mirren is a wonderful actress and proves it yet again. Alas, the script was deadly dull, Jason Clark was miscast in the role of her lover Potemkin, having zero chemistry with Mirren, and the beginning, with the murder of Catherine's husband, Peter, which should have been shown as a flashback with a much younger actress, is instead shown with the seventy something Mirren. Historically inaccurate on more than one level, including the reference to Istanbul instead of Constantinople. After two episodes this viewer was reluctant to watch the last two episodes and it was a plodding deadly dull task. The language was vulgar and the sex scenes crude. All in all it needed a much better writer. Dragging yesterday's historical figures down into the gutter to satisfy today's mores is not the way to go. Major disappointment.