International intrigue in the worlds of MI5 and MI6 as depicted in BBC America’s smash series Killing Eve is serious business, even when Carolyn Martens, the complicated doyenne of that spy world regales the titular Eve with colorful tales told in her signature deadpan. “I once saw a rat drink from a can of Coke there.
Both hands. Extraordinary,” Carolyn tells her erstwhile protégé Eve (Sandra Oh) early in the series. Seemingly impervious to the dangerous business at hand, which includes