Watched on Netflix from May 14th until May 19th In his 2015 book "Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need", Blake Snyder details the structure of the hero's journey, the underlying blueprint of many stories. As a result, the phrase "Save the Cat!" has also become established in German-speaking circles. It refers to the moment when we see the protagonist of a film for the first time and witness him doing a good deed - in this way, we are made directly aware of whom we have to side with in the further course. It is derived from the movie "Alien", more precisely from the scene when Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) saves a cat. To my limited knowledge, no one has ever written a book called "Mock the Child!" but it made a good antithesis to Snyder's work. "Killing Eve" opens on this principle. A lady, unknown to us at this point, sits spooning an ice cream in an appropriate café, opposite her a girl doing the same. The two smile at each other. When the adult has finished, she gets up and leaves the place - not without knocking over the child's sundae in passing, apparently for no reason at all, so that the child's clothes get the contents. In less than two minutes, the series has already skillfully established who we are not supposed to like. Any possible doubts about this are resolved at the latest when Villanelle (Jodie Comer), who was of course the antagonist, uses a boy to murder his grandfather in the course of the first episode. While the antagonist remains largely mysterious at first, we spend considerably more time with the protagonist Eve (Sandra Oh). However, "Killing Eve" is not always as efficient as it is in the first two minutes. Sometimes the drama and tension are a bit artificially exaggerated. For example, when a character is fleeing from killers in the fourth episode, he talks to Eve on the phone in the middle of nowhere. She advises him to go north - he replies that he has no idea where north is. Eve, who is nearby, then instructs him to meet her at a clearly visible metal structure. So the sequence could have already been shorter if she had suggested that in the first place. But it additionally suffers from the fact that anyone with a smartphone in their hand can easily determine where North is. Be it with the help of a digital compass (which admittedly could possibly be rendered useless by the metal construction) or with a glance at the clock and the position of the sun. It could be argued that he is on the run and therefore panicking. However, with an employee of the secret service it is actually to be expected that such trivialities are not suddenly forgotten even in exceptional situations. In any case, it would have been better not to drag out the scene like this. Apart from such slips, the pacing is quite alright, though. "Killing Eve" has many exciting moments, especially in the second half, when the plot thickens. Additionally, the series benefits from the chemistry between the two leads, even though they don't have that many scenes together. The tension is sometimes somewhat undermined when a preview of the next episode is shown at the end of each of the first seven episodes. Whether this was the case from the beginning or was only implemented this way by the inclusion on Netflix cannot be judged here. The humor of the series has often been praised, but it has to be said that it is quite a matter of taste and often doesn't really land. The dialogues, however, are mostly successful. "Language is information, and information is everything" is what the last episode says. Since the show has locations all over Europe, it also contains a conglomerate of different languages. Fortunately, most of these are subtitled. However, if you can read Cyrillic characters and are also familiar with lethal doses, the makers give you an advantage towards the end, for example, according to this motto. Who knows what other clues of this kind are hidden for the ignorant, but no one is dependent on them to understand the plot. The first season ends with a cliffhanger. Unlike cancelled shows, however, you are not left hanging here, but can look forward to a whole three more seasons.