Spoiler alert: The new season of Killing Eve doesn't begin with Eve being killed.
Killing Eve, which became a surprise pop culture phenom in its first season, returns for its third on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET over BBC America.
At the end of the second season, fans might remember, dogged semi-amateur sleuth, Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh, top), was shot by slick assassin-for-hire, Villanelle (Jodie Comer, top).
Things looked bad, and the music sounded ominous. But let's get serious for a minute, folks: Did anyone really think Killing Eve was going to whack its title character and end the cat-and-mouse dance that made the show such a cult favorite in the first place?
Nope, it's not really much of a spoiler at all that both halves of our tortured, but disturbingly exhilarated couple have survived.
Their circumstances, however, have changed.
Eve is working a different and less stressful job while she recovers from that pesky gunshot. We get only the slightest passing hint about how she's alive at all, which will have to satisfy us for the moment.
Villanelle also seems to be spending more time in a less exotic and even marginally legitimate world.
No one who has seen five seconds of the first two seasons, however, could seriously believe she would give up the adrenalin rush she gets from thinking up inventive ways to kill people.
Her seemingly conscience-free amorality was one of the reasons she charmed audiences in the first season. In the second season, however, it became a bit more problematic, as the show doubled down by turning her into a sort of invincible supervillain.
Framing her more as a caricature also didn't help Eve, who has always been the ultimate normal human being, her life as much of a ragged mess as her diet.
In that sense, it's not a bad thing that Season 3 starts with a sort of reset.
Eve is no longer working with spies at the British intelligence service MI6, which makes her a reduced version of the Eve we first met. She's out of touch with her skeptical boss, Carolyn Martens (Fiona Shaw), and only gets a random check-in from Carolyn's son, her former low-level agency colleague Kenny Stowton (Sean Delaney).
Kenny says he's still fascinated by The Twelve, the criminal geopolitical cartel that MI6 hasn't been able to nab – and with whom Villanelle may have a connection. Eve shrugs and wishes him luck.
Villanelle, meanwhile, seems to be starting her new phase by meeting an old acquaintance, Dasha (Harriet Walter). They knew each other well several years earlier, and it turns out they have much in common.
Way too much, in terms of bringing out each other's worst qualities, which, of course, are the ones they savor the most.
So it's also not a big spoiler to say something happens that reactivates the Eve-and-Villanelle show. Which is, after all, what Killing Eve is about.
The question will be whether it can keep Villanelle interestingly human by resisting the temptation to keep making her into more and more of a self-aware psycho killer who seems to be auditioning for her own video game.
It will have to be enough, for starters, that Eve remains among us. And that she hasn't changed her diet.