Killing Eve's lethal femininity

People are raving about Killing Eve — BBC America's new thriller starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer — for good reason: It's special.

Yet in terms of plot, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's stylish series about an MI6 investigator tracking a serial killer is decidedly conventional. Thrillers like these are typically structured around a secret affinity between the investigator and the criminal, and that's the case here too. What's different about Killing Eve is that this central relationship — so often...