![]() ![]() At this point, I’ve made peace with the genre-swap, but I refuse to accept the fact that Louise-our smart, capable, funny, complex, take-no-shit heroine and wonderful, loving single mother to Adam-would be as gullible as she is in the finale. ![]() He tells Louise to stay away from Adele because she’s dangerous, and she promises she will. Louise goes to David and tells him she realizes that he’s not the villain she thought he was, that Adele is “not normal,” and that she’s “always there, watching, listening.” David goes to Scotland to tell the police what happened with Rob. Then, in present day, Louise realizes that Adele can astral project because Louise herself learns it, from the book on lucid dreaming that Adele gave Louise to overcome her night terrors. Adele/Rob then dumps Rob’s body into a well in the estate’s forest, and lets David’s watch fall in with the body, to entrap David into keeping their secret so they’ll be stuck with each other forever lest she tell the police that David killed Rob. Then, Rob-as-Adele shoots up Rob’s body with more heroin, causing Rob’s body to overdose with Adele’s soul inside, killing both Rob’s physical body and Adele’s soul. Rob injects himself with enough heroin so that once Adele’s soul is inside his body, she is immobilized and trapped within his flesh vessel forever. Ten years ago, after actual Adele showed Rob how to astral project, Rob convinced her to try swapping souls. This entire time, the woman we’ve been watching and wondering about-is she a manipulative psychopath or the victim of an abusive husband?-is actually Rob, Adele’s best friend from her time at the rehabilitation facility where she went after her parents were killed in a fire at their country estate. I’ll do my best to summarize the twist ending in one sentence: Adele is Rob. Take us deep into the world of lucid dreaming and astral projection-I was missing 2011-era Tumblr, anyway. It’s like the show just said, “Rules? What rules? To hell with narrative structure and consistent, honest, world-building! Genre who?” But you know what? Fine. The term “astral projection” isn’t actually spoken until the last fifteen minutes of Episode Five, but once it is-man, all bets are off. What begins as an erotic/crime/ psychological thriller takes a sharp turn into supernatural fantasyland in the second-to-last episode. *Final warning: spoilers for Behind Her Eyes below. For the rest of us, though, let’s talk about the Behind Her Eyes twist ending that is truly, actually, legitimately absurd. If you’ve read Sarah Pinborough’s novel from which the series is adapted, you already know the twist ending and can get on with your life. Come back here when you’re ready to discuss-or just want something to help you process your feelings about what the hell you just watched.ĭespite standout performances by Simona Brown and Eve Hewson, Behind Her Eyes is basically six hours of waiting for an ending that essentially cheats its way into a shocking twist. So if you want to watch it and see if you can guess the ending before it whacks you in the head like a pile of cartoon bricks, go ahead and do that. If you haven’t watched the new limited series on Netflix, be warned: I am 100 percent going to spoil it for you in this article. I liked the journey more than the destination, but then, I don’t skate.When I watched the last twenty minutes of Behind Her Eyes this weekend, all I could do was smile and shake my head repeatedly. “Behind Her Eyes” isn’t about people, really. Brown has a way of looking one way in profile and quite another in close-up her character may be exasperating, but the performer’s innate warmth provides great contrast to Hewson (Bono’s daughter, FYI) and her mercurial intimations of danger ahead.ĭoes the series stick the triple axel? Some viewers’ eyes may never stop rolling, while others will find it effectively berserk, though it relies on supernatural developments that end up looking a bit silly on screen. That’s a massive hunk of deception for Louise, and it’s only a question of when everything will get sprung in “Behind Her Eyes.”įor a good while the series relies, successfully, on the striking charisma and skillful interpretive wiles of Brown and Hewson in particular. Adele and Louise agree to keep their friendship to themselves. Adele knows she’s David’s secretary but nothing more. ![]() Director Strand and his design collaborators invent an artful eyeful of various dream states, owing a bit to Magritte and a bit more to “Alice in Wonderland” - referenced directly in one scene when Louise reads Lewis Carroll to her 7-year-old, played with lovely naturalness by Tyler Howitt.Īs Louise continues her affair with David, she also befriends Adele, again by chance. The tentacles of addiction wrap around the narrative, along with night terrors shared by Adele and by Louise. ![]()
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