The ‘Honey’ Trailer Hopes You Don’t Remember ‘Killing Eve’
'Honey' looks great, but so did 'Killing Eve.'
The invention of “Prestige TV” challenged many of the medium’s conventions; one of the biggest has been the need for a show to “stick the landing” in its series finale. For decades, TV rewarded open-ended, never-finished episodic storytelling; wrapping things up was never on the table until shows like Game of Thrones tried to reinvent the genre as “multiple seasons of 10-hour movies.” Most series have struggled to pull off a clean ending, marring final outings that, in earlier eras, would have been regarded as totally acceptable. That said, if a non-anthology series is going to run multiple seasons, the first and last seasons should at least share the same thesis as the driving motivator, whether it’s as simple as “Everyone at This Bar Knows Your Name” or as complex as “You Win, or You Die.”
That’s where Killing Eve failed as a TV series. The first season was a spy-vs-spy panache of obsession, with genre conventions as window dressing around Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer’s chemistry. The final season mistook that window dressing as the point, then rushed to kill off Oh and Comer to create a spinoff series based on the curtains.
That spinoff was initially billed as a prequel centered on Fiona Shaw’s supporting character, Carolyn Martens. Titled Honey, the new series at first worked hard to hide its origins after the deeply negative response to Killing Eve’s finale. While the production still isn’t exactly trumpeting the connection, the first trailer has a certain meta “If You Know, You Know” attitude, both to the show’s origins and to its own unsuccessful attempts to keep them at arm’s length.
Here’s the series synopsis:
East Berlin, 1982. Martha (pronounced Marta), 24, is a deep-cover agent for MI6. Surrounded by enemies and constantly under threat of her cover being blown, she tries her hardest to avoid detection by Friedrich, the new Stasi Head of Counterespionage against British Targets, Berlin Office. Finding herself caught between Friedrich and the reckless, arrogant (and incredibly attractive…) CIA operative Aaron Neeland (posing as Kurt Fischer), she is blind-sided by desire in this Cold War menage-a-trois.
The risk of being garrotted or incarcerated is nothing compared to the horrifying ordeal of falling in love. Allowing yourself to be vulnerable and bearing your heart and soul? She'd rather have her fingernails pulled out.
Ann Skelly (House of Guinness) leads the cast as Carolyn Martens Martha Schmitt. She co-stars alongside Nate Mann (Masters of the Air) as Kurt Fischer, Jannis Niewöhner (Napoleon) as Friedrich Bauman, and Rory Kinnear (The Diplomat) as Graham Anderson.
The series will also feature Oliver Cudbill (My Lady Jane), Sonita Henry (The Chelsea Detective), Victoria Mayer (World on Fire), July Namir (The Lady), Sofia Oxenham (Poldark), Valentino Dalle Mura (Murder in the North), plus small-screen newcomers Julian Niedermeier and Daniel Zielinski.
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Emma Moran (Extraordinary) is the series’s lead writer, splitting script duties across the show’s six installments with Emme Hoy (Renegade Nell). Directors Toby MacDonald (Fifteen-Love) and Michelle Savill (Industry) will split helming duties. Executive producers include Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris for Sid Gentle Films, and Christopher Hall is the producer.
Technically, the series was originally developed as a co-production with AMC Global, since Killing Eve was initially a BBC America series. However, since production got off the ground, AMC and BBCA have notably been left off all marketing, and no American distributor has been listed in the press releases. It remains to be seen whether AMC Global announces Honey’s debut as part of its 2027 lineup, or whether the show ends up streaming elsewhere.
Honey will debut on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer on Saturday, November 14, 2026.
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