The Crow Girl Season 2 is streaming now, and Katherine Kelly is at the center of it as Sophia Craven, also known as Victoria Burkeman. Eve Myles says Kelly is “absolutely a sensation,” a line that lands harder because the new season pushes deeper into the show’s darkest material.
Eve Myles on Katherine Kelly
Myles called Kelly’s work “bold, ambitious, tender, [and] beautiful,” then added, “She’s absolutely a sensation in this show and I can’t wait for people to see what she’s done in it.” That is not the sort of language actors use when they are merely promoting a co-star; it points to a performance built to carry the season’s emotional load as well as its mystery.
She also said, “She’s swimming against the tide, right to the end,” and described the pace as, “There’s a relentless tsunami of things coming at her the entire time.” In other words, the role is not designed around one clean reveal. It is built as pressure, and that makes Kelly the season’s main engine rather than a supporting piece of atmosphere.
Jeanette Kilburn’s pace
Eve Myles plays DCI Jeanette Kilburn, and she framed this season in blunt terms: “Oh my God, she doesn’t breathe.” She also said, “Time’s running out, time’s running out, time’s running out. Ooo, here’s another body, here’s another six. Victoria’s turned up. She hasn’t turned up.” Those lines make the shape of the season plain: bodies keep appearing, the case keeps widening, and Jeanette is being driven by speed rather than comfort.
The first season already closed one major thread by uncovering the culprits behind the death of the asylum seekers. Season 2 does not reset the board; it sharpens the investigation around fresh and decades-old remains, with horrific murders and evidence-munching pigs pushing the story into uglier territory. For viewers, that means the new season is less about setup and more about how far the central mystery can be stretched before it snaps.
Paramount+ closes the case
Milly Thomas wrote the series “with such care and with a great amount of truth,” and that approach shows in how the season handles Victoria’s traumatic childhood and its effect on her present. The result is a thriller that treats character history as part of the evidence, not a detour from it.
The Crow Girl makes its way to Paramount+ as its season two storyline comes to a close there, which leaves the current run as a complete viewing block rather than an open-ended tease. If you want the cleanest read on the season, start with Kelly: the show is using Sophia Craven to carry both the emotional damage and the narrative weight, and that is exactly where the sharpest work is happening.
