10 TV Shows That Should Have Ended After One Season

There is a lot to love about Killing Eve. The lead performances are superb, especially that of Jodie Comer, and it nails the tonal balance better than almost any drama of the past decade. In its first season it was tense and exciting, but always, always fun, which is something so many major shows forget to be.

Season two attempts to freshen things up with a few new antagonists and bringing the series’ lead antagonists/possible lovers together, but it’s clear from early on that a lot of the sparkle had gone. Killing Eve’s hook was the cat and mouse game between Villanelle and Eve - once we’d seen basically all we needed to of that, there was nowhere else to go.

Worse still, the cliffhanger ending of the first season is simply replicated at the conclusion of season two. The issue seemed to be the departure of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who evidently recognised that the well had run dry and moved on to new things.

Season three has proved divisive, but with the series a commercial success, you’d imagine it’s going nowhere - appropriate, given the storylines are similarly repetitive.