Eve Myles has put Katherine Kelly at the center of The Crow Girl season 2, calling her “absolutely a sensation” as the new run streams now on Paramount+. Myles, who plays DCI Jeanette Kilburn, said Kelly’s performance gives the season its sharpest pull for Viewers of The Crow Girl and.
“I’m so proud of her, I can’t tell you,” Myles said during an exclusive interview with Digital Spy, adding that Kelly’s work is “bold, ambitious, tender, [and] beautiful” and “absolutely a sensation in this show.” That kind of praise matters because the series is returning on the strength of performance, not just plot mechanics.
Eve Myles and Katherine Kelly
Eve Myles and Katherine Kelly are the beating hearts of The Crow Girl story, and season 2 keeps that pairing at the front of the frame. Myles plays DCI Jeanette Kilburn, while Kelly appears as Sophia Craven, aka Victoria Burkeman, giving the season a two-character engine that carries the investigation and the emotional fallout together.
Season 1 established the mystery behind the death of the asylum seekers, but season 2 pushes into a faster, harsher register. Myles said the new run feels like “a relentless tsunami of things coming at her the entire time,” while Jeanette “doesn’t breathe” and “doesn’t walk through doors anymore,” which is the kind of pressure-cooker change that tells viewers this is not a reset but a continuation with higher strain.
Victoria Burkeman and Milly Thomas
Myles also pointed to the writing around Victoria Burkeman, saying The Crow Girl makes viewers spend time with her as “a beautiful girl and a beautiful young woman” while also showing “the horrors and the atrocities” that have defined her. That balance gives the season a moral edge: the character is not flattened into a case file, even as the story keeps tightening around her.
Milly Thomas wrote the season in a way that Myles said was handled with “such care and with a great amount of truth,” which is the real hook for this run. The series is still a crime story, but the new season’s value sits in how it treats trauma as structure rather than decoration, and that makes Kelly’s performance the element most likely to keep viewers locked in as the season plays out on Paramount+.
