April is going to be a big month for pop culture fanatics. Game of ThronesOpens in a new tab returns. Avengers: EndgameOpens in a new tab hits theaters. A Star Wars: Episode IXOpens in a new tab trailer will likely debut at Celebration. And if that wasn’t enough, BBC AmericaOpens in a new tab‘s sultry assassin thriller Killing EveOpens in a new tab will return for its much-anticipated second season on April 7 at 8PM/7C. It’s a stacked month.
Have you missed us? #KillingEveOpens in a new tab Season 2 premieres Sunday, April 7 at 8pm/7c on @BBCAmericaOpens in a new tab. https://t.co/SD6gzvHpzROpens in a new tab pic.twitter.com/qusWAj2NB3Opens in a new tab
— Killing Eve (@KillingEve) January 3, 2019Opens in a new tab
Sandra OhOpens in a new tab and Jodie ComerOpens in a new tab will return as Eve and Villanelle, an MI6 operative and a psychopathic assassin locked in a deadly, seductive, mutually obsessive game of cat-and-mouse. The second season will pick up “exactly 36 heart-thumping seconds after the events of the season finale,” according to a press release. After a bloody confrontation between the two women, Eve is hot on Villanelle’s trail, but this time she’s not the only one looking for the assassin.Killing Eve picked up a ton of steam after its debut last year, landing on a number of best-of critics lists: It was Metacritic’s top dramaOpens in a new tab on its “TV Shows Mentioned On Most Critic Top 10 Lists – 2018″ round-up. The show also scored major nominations at the EmmysOpens in a new tab and Golden GlobesOpens in a new tab, which Oh will co-host with Andy SambergOpens in a new tab this Sunday. If she wins Best Actress in a Drama Series, it will be only the second time in the awards show’s history where a host picked up an award the night of their duties, after Amy PoehlerOpens in a new tab won for Parks & RecreationOpens in a new tab in 2013.
April may be a busy month, but with quality premieres like this, who can complain?
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