“Carolyn has a much more sophisticated relationship to thinking, and we need more people who have more sophisticated relationships to thinking,” she told The AV Club. “Things don’t go ‘yes, no, yes, no’.

“We are not children and the world is not childlike, and it’s bad behaviour. So I think in that way it’s subconsciously does meet a few anxieties — and perhaps also in America.”

It’s a mark of how good Killing Eve is that it can be both pure escapist entertainment and a commentary on real-life political wrangling.

Here’s to seeing how it all develops in season two.

Killing Eve airs on BBC America now in the US and on BBC in the UK later this year.

What Killing Eve’s Carolyn tells us about political anxiety in 2019