![]() David and Louise’s illicit trysts lack chemistry and, while Hewson smoulders entertainingly as Adele – with a particularly nice line in quivering micro-expressions captured in closeup – her emotions never properly explode. It’s also not a particularly sexy show, despite sex scenes a plenty. Then there’s the “adult contemporary” soundtrack of Radio 2 playlist favourites, which only manages to deepen the impression that these guys have no distinct personalities. The setting is somewhere vaguely in London, where you can turn the corner from the Fergusons’ posh, tree-lined avenue into Louise’s council estate, but a lack of specificity means it might as well be Parminster.Ĭlass and racial divides are broadly gestured at, but never in such as way as to illuminate our understanding of the characters or their relationships. Given this theme of disordered sleep, you would expect Behind Her Eyes to visually blur the line between wakefulness and dream state, but its sense of place and character is also hazy in other, less artful ways. Adele quickly forges her own bond with Louise, through their shared history of “night terrors”. And it’s about to get more so, because he’s also married, and has moved to the area with his beautiful-but-unhinged wife, Adele, in tow (Eve Hewson, last seen starring in The Luminaries). ![]() It’s only when Louise arrives at work on Monday that she realises Dr David Ferguson is her new boss, a psychiatrist at the practice where she works as a secretary.Īwkward. His handsome Scottishness is underlined by his drink order: Macallan whisky, retailing at £12 a measure. This six-part series is based on Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 novel and concerns the menacing love triangle that develops when single mum Louise (Simona Brown) gets talking to a handsome Scottish stranger, David (Tom Bateman), during a night out. The latest Netflix release, Behind Her Eyes, looks like a promising attempt to muscle in on ITV’s territory, seduce her husband, steal her baby and turn all her closest friends against her. They are, however, often where British telly excels, by creating appointment sofa-time, even in our on-demand age. Such twisty psychological thrillers set in enviable bourgeois domesticity don’t always bag the Baftas. Last night I dreamt I went to Parminster again … That’s where Doctor Foster lived with her terrible husband, remember? Before he ran off with Jodie Comer. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series, and The Earthborn Trilogy, which is also on audiobook. What an ending, and Behind Her Eyes deserves all the praise and attention it’s getting.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. It’s the kind of story that really only works once, though it may be unsatisfying for some who are not prone to enjoying tales where the bad guys win. It’s a limited series, so I doubt we see Rob/Louise get his comeuppance in a second season. It fills in so many blanks once you understand it, and the most tragic part is that we now realize that Adele was always good and pure, and this…bizarre, evil “vessel” has been Rob the entire time living a stolen life. It’s a wild ending, justifying all the weirdness that came before it, and one that genuinely surprised me even if I figured it out in the closing moments of the show, minutes before the reveal. He dumps his old body and Adele’s now extinguished consciousness in the well, and for the last decade it’s been Rob who has been living in Adele’s body, blackmailing David, messing with Louise and then ultimately stealing another body yet again when it suits him. But as soon as they do it, Rob, a drug addict proclaimed as “vicious” by his sister, turns on Adele, strangling her while she’s trapped in his own body. ![]() In the final scene of the series, we learn that Adele taught Rob how to astral project too, and they experimented with body-swapping. This would be a pretty solid twist on its own, but Behind Her Eyes pulls off the rare double-twist that genuinely works.
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