10 Shows To Watch If You Like Killing Eve

The British spy thriller is a genre and subgenre of film and television all on its own, but the television series Killing Eve is a truly unique entry into this little niche of the entertainment industry. Killing Eve follows the story of Eve Polastri, a British MI5 investigator who is tasked with finding a mysterious female assassin that Eve winds up becoming obsessed with, and she, in turn, winds up becoming obsessed with Eve.

Killing Eve is one of the most exciting TV shows to come out in the past few years, and while everything about the show is pretty much fantastic, the only painful thing is that it’s only been on for a few years, and it’s an English show, meaning there are way too few episodes to keep its rabid fans satisfied. However, if any Killing Eve fans are looking to fulfill their fan needs with similar shows, then here are ten shows to watch if you love Killing Eve.

10 Dollhouse

Film and television auteur Joss Whedon tends to keep his projects in the realms of fantasy, supernatural, and science fiction stories, but the closest he ever got to material that is similar to Killing Eve has got to be his tragically short show Dollhouse. Dollhouse follows the story of Echo, a “doll” who works for a corporation that essentially programs her and sends her out on jobs for whatever their client has hired her to do, regardless of the purpose. The premise of the show depends on its lead character having her mind repeatedly wiped, so it confronts a lot of interesting ideas about the notion of personhood.

9 Nikita

The CW isn’t exactly known for creating award-worthy high concept TV shows, which is probably why their incredible show Nikita never took off in the way that it should have. The show was inspired both by the Luc Besson film Nikita and the TV series La Femme Nikita, but Nikita was entirely its own beast and it was one of the best girl spy TV shows ever made from start to finish.

The story is ostensibly about spies, but the most important relationship in the show is between Nikita and Alexandra Udinov, two strangers who seem fated to meet and who team up to destroy the spy agency that enslaved them.

8 My Mad Fat Diary

Anyone who has watched Killing Eve knows that actress Jodie Comer literally and figuratively kills it in her role as Villanelle. However, if you want a taste of Jodie’s skills in a completely different role, then My Mad Fat Diary is must-see TV. The show on its own is a very soulful and nostalgic series about the struggles of teenage life, and Jodie’s role as the popular chick with a lot of complexity beneath the surface gives another glimpse into her considerable acting chops. It’s a show worth watching either way, but you can’t miss it if you’re a fan of Comer.

7 Revenge

Anyone who is a fan of Killing Eve is undoubtedly fans of stories about complex female characters with complex relationships with one another. And a show that definitely falls under that category is Revenge. Revenge is a story about, you guessed it, revenge. The show’s overarching story is inspired by The Count of Monte Cristo but with an obvious gender swap. After a turbulent young life, a woman named Amanda returns to her cushy childhood home in the Hamptons to exact revenge on the people who betrayed her father and destroyed herself, with the villainous Victoria Grayson being her prime target.

6 Mindhunter

Although Eve Polastri is a professional lady, after Villanelle comes into her life she finds herself endlessly fascinated with her homicidal sociopath of a quarry. And the story of Mindhunter is very much the same.

Mindhunter covers the development of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, which involved a lot of research into serial killers, including interviews with the killers and even with the agents developing personal relationships with said killers. Two of the three main characters do a good job of keeping their personal feelings out of the job, but Holden Ford, the wunderkind of the unit, finds himself being psychologically drawn into this web of madness.

5 Broadchurch

Killing Eve brings in a lot of exotic and out of this world concepts into its storyline. It’s an international hunt for one of the most dangerous and intriguing female assassins of all time. However, Broadchurch is a more down to earth version of this kind of murder investigation drama. Broadchurch is led by the incomparable Olivia Colman and David Tennant, and they play local investigators working on season-long case investigations in the titular town of Broadchurch. But the twists and turns in this series are definitely enough to compete with Killing Eve, and the characters are just as lovable.

4 Alias

The characters of Eve and Villanelle are truly the heart of Killing Eve, and it’s difficult to resist their drastically different but equally intense charms. And when it comes to Alias, the lead character of Sydney Bristow kind of feels like an interesting blend of both. Sydney is a girl who believes that she is working for the CIA only to discover that she’s working for the enemies of the United States. She decides to pull double agent duty, and the tension and intensity of the storyline and character development is some of the best in TV drama history.

3 The Handmaid’s Tale

In terms of their actual story, Killing Eve doesn’t share a whole lot in common with The Handmaid’s Tale. But they are both female-centric, extremely high-quality TV shows. If complex female characters are a must for your favorite TV shows then The Handmaid’s Tale is guaranteed to satisfy.

June Osborne is the kind of heroine that most of us hope we would become in these kinds of extreme situations, and Serena Joy Waterford is the most complex and interesting female villain in the history of television. And those are just the main ladies, but there are plenty of other incredible supporting female characters on the show too.

2 Big Little Lies

In a similar vein to The Handmaid’s Tale, Big Little Lies isn’t a show that shares a lot of narrative similarities with Killing Eve, but if you want top-notch production and storytelling with female characters that will absolutely knock your socks off then Big Little Lies is definitely right up your alley. This story about a group of female friends and acquaintances coping with the extra dramatic dramas of their lives in Monterey, California, and their relationships and experiences go far beyond anyone could have ever expected. Plus, the one and only Meryl Streep joined the cast this last season, so why wouldn’t anyone watch?

1 Fleabag

Much like the Eve Polastri of Killing Eve, the titular lead character of Fleabag is a bit of a train wreck. Actually she’s about a hundred times more of a train wreck than Eve is. Fleabag follows the story of Fleabag, an English woman who is confused, enraged, and uncomfortably promiscuous, and while the story is quite different from Killing Eve, Fleabag is actually written by the same writer. Phoebe Waller-Bridge plays Fleabag in addition to being the writer and creator of the show, and while she doesn’t star in Killing Eve she did write and develop the series for television.