Killing Eve’s queer representation could have gone very wrong — then it didn’t

Spoilers ahead for season one of Killing Eve.
Killing Eve, BBC America’s newest drama, is a twist on the usual espionage genre: the James Bond character and the charismatic, elusive nemesis are both women. Our hero, an M15 security officer named Eve (Sandra Oh) finds herself caught in a cat and mouse game with a sadistic assassin who calls herself Villanelle (Jodie Comer), one in which the pair’s growing obsession with each other ventures into homoerotic territory. It’s a reci