Killing Eve, Series 2 - 6/10 They really dropped the ball with this one didn't they? Villanelle is still the best thing about it, but even she isn't given anywhere near enough to do here to help salvage things.
The first series was a really fresh take on the genre - answering the question of what kind of thriller you would get if people not normally involved in that genre got to make one, and the answer was something different and compelling. Here they just don't seem to know how to either recapture that same freedom or know how to push it forward to some next step.
Doesn't help that the whole thing takes so many liberties that the ability to suspend your disbelief is completely shot. Oh yeah just call the spooks up on your personal mobile, sure that makes sense. What's that, you need some special files - I'll just send them over email to you at home! "We're doing this by Moscow rules - no breaking cover, no contact"... but you'll keep tabs on her from across the strawberry floating road and meet each other regularly in public, speaking in your normal voices...
The plot doesn't give any indication that they know where they are going with it. Fiona Shaw's character was intriguingly vague and suspect in the first series, now it just seems like their taking the piss. And the whole "ghost" assassin stuff was pointless and nobody learned anything from it that we or the characters didn't already know.
It's not dead in the water by any means, but I've not experienced a drop off between series 1 and 2 like this since Heroes.