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Honey: this flirty, kinky Killing Eve prequel should have been called Carré on Spying
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The amazing Ann Skelly plays Eve’s spy-handler Carolyn in a steamy, camp cold war thriller set in east Germany. Tagline: ‘everyone is watching – look hot!’ I always found it odd that spy stories are the quintessential interest of middle-aged men. Isn’t spying all about relationsh
The amazing Ann Skelly plays Eve’s spy-handler Carolyn in a steamy, camp cold war thriller set in east Germany. Tagline: ‘everyone is watching – look hot!’ I always found it odd that spy stories are the quintessential interest of middle-aged men. Isn’t spying all about relationships, listening and choosing outfits?
Is there something you’d like to tell us, men? Ironically, we don’t seem to have many ways of making you talk. A female-forward spy story was the highlight of my week.
Honey (Saturday 14 November, 9pm, BBC One) is a prequel to Killing Eve , and an origin story for one of its most intriguing characters: Fiona Shaw’s spy-handler Carolyn Martens. A title page lets us know that this is a period piece, while establishing a very un-period tone. We are in East Berlin, 1982, where the East German government run an army of citizen informants.
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