Nice Face 

When a Russian politician is murdered, a bored MI5 security officer is tasked with protecting the only witness and soon finds herself on a collision course with a violent and extraordinary assassin.

Director:

Harry Bradbeer

Writers:

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Luke Jennings (based on the Villanelle novels by)

Stars:

Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer, Fiona Shaw

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Sandra Oh	...	Eve Polastri
Jodie Comer	...	Villanelle
Fiona Shaw	...	Carolyn Martens
Darren Boyd	...	Frank Haleton
Remo Girone	...	Cesare Greco
Kirby Howell-Baptiste	...	Elena Felton
Owen McDonnell	...	Niko Polastri
Kim Bodnia	...	Konstantin
David Haig	...	Bill Pargrave
Sonia Elliman	...	Madame Tattevin
Edyta Budnik	...	Kasia Molkovska
Ania Marson	...	Ethel Rubynovitch
Ken Nwosu	...	Max Sanford
Billy Matthews	...	Dominik Wolanski
Nicoló Ambrosio	...	Davide

Storyline

MI5 Agent Eve Polastri is assigned to a special task force to protect the only witness of an unknown assassin, presumed by Eve to be the one killing people all over the world. Obsessed with female assassins, Eve has formed an investigative dossier on her own and has connected all to one unknown female assassin. Unbeknownst to Eve, she actually meets her antagonist while on guard duty for the only witness. Failure to save the witness results in Eve being fired by MI5, only to have another opportunity knock on her door for her personal obsession to become a reality. Meanwhile, Villanelle (the assassin) learns of Eve and her new task force. Though warned off by her handler not to touch either, she has the impetus to ignore these orders, as she is quite a psychotic yet brilliant assassin.

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Plot Keywords:

ice cream | ice cream parlor | vienna austria | numb limb | croissant | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

BBC Three [United Kingdom]

Country:

USA UK Italy

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 April 2018 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company Credits

Production Co:

Endeavor Content, Sid Gentle Films, BBC America

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

Phoebe Waller-Bridge was nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series category for Killing Eve: Nice Face (2018), but lost to Joel Fields & Joseph Weisberg for The Americans' The Americans: START (2018).

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Goofs

At or about 0:33 Villanelle and Cesare Greco are standing face-to-face. Villanelle reaches up with her right hand, thumb down, to the bun on the back of her head. Cut away to Villanelle removing the hair pin from her hair with her right hand, thumb down, nearer the point of the hair pin and little finger nearer the plunger end of the hair pin. Cut away to Villanelle plunging the hair pin point into the left eye of Cesare Greco with her right hand and pressing the plunger with her right thumb. There was no opportunity to rotate the hair pin to accomplish this change in grip.

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Quotes

[Eve calls Elena]
Eve Polastri: Hey, uh, hi. I was counting on you not having a life.

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Connections

References Aladdin (1992)

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Soundtracks

Xpectations
(uncredited)
Written by David Holmes, Keith Ciancia, Keefus Ciancia, Gabe Noel, Tyler Davis Parkford and Jade Vincent
Performed by Unloved

User Reviews

Very interesting!

After months of seeing the ads for this show. I finally watched this on sunday. My goodness what an interesting first episode! I hope it momentum stays strong!