Hulu Scoops Up Paramount+ Original 'The Killing Kind'

Things are still very dramatic over at Paramount+. There’s the looming (likely?) sale of its parent company, the erasure of several series from the U.K. version of the service, and the international arm’s decision to abandon a big chunk of its in-progress slate even as it greenlights a handful of new shows like The Crow Girl and Curfew. We love mess, as Marie Kondo would say.

Yet, all this chaos may ultimately benefit American audiences as the internal issues at Paramount seem to finally be shaking some of the programming that hadn’t made its way across the pond yet loose. One of these series is The Killing Kind, a crime thriller initially broadcast in the U.K. in the Fall of 2023 and will now premiere this May on Hulu.

Based on Jane Casey’s bestselling novel of the same name, The Killing Kind follows the story of Ingrid Lewis, a defense attorney who becomes romantically involved with a client, John Webster, after successfully defending from stalking charges. (Yes, there are a lot of red flags here.) The relationship ends badly, but when Webster reappears a year later, claiming he’s the only one who can protect her from a killer, Ingrid’s unsure about who she can trust.