Once someone has mastered the art of astral projecting, like Adele and Rob and Louise have, apparently one can not only leave one’s body and go traveling around one can also inhabit someone else’s physical being and stay in there in perpetuity, so long as that corporeal shell you’re hermit-crabbing doesn’t die. Next, SPOILER ALERT, just to have us all on the literal and figurative same page SPOILER ALERT, I’m now going to SPOILER ALERT spell out exactly what Behind Her Eyes’ twist endings MAJOR SPOILER ALERTS turned out to be SPOILERS AHEAAAAAADDDDD … I’m guessing nobody’s hands are still up. I'm pouring one out for what could have been.Let’s start with a show of hands: Who figured out Behind Her Eyes’ twists (credit due there were indeed two of them!) before they were revealed? Okay, now keep your hands up if you managed to figure it all out without having read the book? That one twist makes what could have been a fascinating relationship thriller (I thought we were going down the polygamy route!) become a surreal mess. To quote the iconic Anna Shay from Netflix's Bling Empire, "There ain't no d*ck that good."īetween David having no idea who he's been married to and having sex with for years and Adele being killed by the best friend she thought of as family so soon after losing her parents to a house fire, it's just too much. But to have his character kill two women and invade their bodies so he can have a relationship with a straight man is another choice that could have done with a bit more thinking in the drafts.
He's selfish, cruel, and ruthless, a character who is always fun to hate when they're doing whatever to get what they want. He's an addict and poor - he longs for the luxury that he sees Adele living in, although he disregards the reality of how she came upon that wealth. Speaking of Rob, what a damn mess! I would have loved to have Rob as a fully living member of the cast, because his character is one of the most intriguing. The revelation leads to the big twist: Adele is really Rob, who switched bodies with her through the art of lucid dreaming, a skill that Adele mastered after having suffered from night terrors.
Near the end of the series, Louise finds herself in Adele's crosshairs when her affair with David is discovered. As Louise attempts to unravel the mystery that is Adele and David's union, she finds solace in the lucid dreaming she learns from the journal of Adele's late friend Rob. Things take a turn for the worse when Louise and David stop resisting their attraction to one another and start an affair, further entangling the mother of one in David's estranged marriage. Though the two are instantly attracted to one another, it goes crashing when Louise learns that not only is David married, but he's also her boss! David's wife, Adele (Eve Hewson), seems eager for friendship, and even though she's still attracted to the woman's husband, Louise strikes up a secretive friendship with her. Louise (played by Simona Brown), a single mother looking to mingle, bumps into the handsome David (Tom Bateman) after being ghosted on a date.
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To be fair, the series hints at the big twist throughout each episode. It's an ending that manages to turn the entire story on its head and does justice for none of the characters - especially not the woman at the center of it all. The show keeps the book's most vital plot points, which unfortunately includes the story's twisted finale. If there's one compliment we could give the show, it's that it's a faithful remake of the book, aside from some minute details that don't alter the story too much. If you haven't already watched Behind Her Eyes, Netflix's adaptation of Sarah Pinborough's 2018 novel, then I recommend you turn back now, because I'm about to spoil the hell out of the big "twist" at the end of the series.
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