One of Netflix’s most recent memorable endings, ‘Behind Her Eyes’

Netflix is ​​surprisingly launching a new miniseries in its hands, Behind Her Eyes, a version of a novel by Sarah Pinborough. There are only six programs, but it makes an impact, hanging around at # 2 on the Top 10 list, behind just I Care a Lot, the new Rosamund Pike film (which is surprising) no based on a book).

Behind Her Eyes starts out as you would normally think this type of thing would. A woman shares a kiss with a stranger at a bar, only to find out the next day that she is her new boss in a psychologist’s office. Things get weird. There is a constant sexual tension between them, but at random, the woman, Louise, runs into David’s psychologist’s wife, Adele. Adele is bored and lonely and for how sweet David is to Louise, he seems to be just as ruthless as Adele, who worries Louise the more she learns about him. their relationship.

And then … things get really weird. And not in a way that I think anyone would expect.

Destroyers follow, and save the rest of this article until you finish the series. Trust me when I say it was worth seeing through to the end.

I’ve seen a lot of this kind of story before, and it’s hard to surprise me, but Behind Her Eyes does it again, especially for its amazing double version that I haven’t seen coming but in the closing times.

Two things will never make sense throughout the course of the series as you look at it. First, the show takes a strange look into the supernatural when we realize that Adele has the ability to project an astral project, as it were, into a sensory force outside her body, which she uses to zip around town, and lets her look at David and Louise, so she knows about their relationship all the time.

I guess it makes the story special, but I didn’t understand how the plot couldn’t have worked the same way if they had avoided that weird element and Adele was just as it was. , put cameras in David’s office or something.

Strange as well, the show ‘s non – stop focus was on Rob, a character whom Adele meets in a reunion and becomes best friends. The show first asks us to imagine that David became jealous, killed Rob and put him in a well. But then Adele is more likely to have killed the sociopath Rob, who designed David for him, so he is able to control it without leaving it.

But by the end of the series, it will all come together. The idea that Adele is the real Duchess all the time becomes pretty clear, and she implements a complicated plan where she commits suicide, but in the process, she uses astral projection to turn bodies with Louise (something we did not know could actually happen, until it happens here), and this causes runs consciousness of dying in a fire while Adele grabs her body and marries David.

This would be a pretty tough version on its own, but Behind Her Eyes takes off the rare double version that really works. In the final scene of the series, we learn that Adele taught Rob how to do an astral project as well, and they tested body exchange. But as soon as they do, Rob, a drug addict who has been described as “brutal” by his sister, turns on Adele, stripping her while she’s locked in her own body. He dumps his old body and now Adele’s consciousness is extinguished in the well, and for the last decade he has been Rob who has been living in Adele’s body, mocking David, joking with Louise and then stealing another body again when it suits him.

It’s a wild ending, justifying all the weirdness that came before it, and one thing that surprised me even though I figured it out at the show’s closing moments, minutes before the release. It fills so many gaps once you understand it, and the most appealing part is that we now realize that Adele was always good and pure, and is neònach this strange, evil vessel Rob has been all the time living a stolen life. The real Adele has been dead for ten years.

It’s a limited edition, so I doubt we’ll see Rob / Louise come in in a second season. This is the kind of story that works just once, although it may be frustrating for some who are not likely to enjoy stories where the bad guys win. And boy, is Rob winning. What an end, and Behind Her Eyes deserves all the praise and attention it receives.

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