Louise, still a decent enough person to not want Adele dead, runs to the house in a panic, astral projecting herself inside to see what’s going on when she can’t physically get in. When Louise turns on Adele once and for all and tries to secure David for herself, Adele decides to burn her life down - literally, as she sets her house on fire and shoots herself full of heroin. Having explained all that, I won’t keep you in suspense any longer about the wild finale of “Behind Her Eyes,” which is definitely as surprising as the story wants it to be, but not in a way that makes much satisfying sense. In the present day, Adele seems to be doing the same with Louise, at which point Louise’s nightmares - once sharp and genuinely frightening illustrations of her innermost fears -morph into blunt shortcuts to the show’s supernatural end. She even found a way to teach her ways to Rob (Robert Aramayo), a charismatic addict she meets in the facility who quickly falls in love with Adele, or at least the rich and fascinating life that Adele appears to live. As we find out in sporadic flashbacks to Adele’s time in a rehab facility after narrowly escaping the house fire that killed her parents, Adele is practiced at the art of floating out of her body to become a shapeless Tinkerbell blur that zips around the world and spies on loved ones to keep tabs and collect collateral. After Louise and Adele bond over their shared night terrors, Adele surreptitiously coaches her new friend into taking control of her dreams and, eventually, practicing astral projection. Slowly, surely, and then very suddenly, “Behind Your Eyes” goes from a taut thriller to the realm of the bizarre and downright fantastical. But after watching all six episodes, I can’t do that - unless you’re into baffling TV train wrecks, which you probably are if you’re reading this article, anyway. If the shifting alliances between Louise, Adele and David were the ultimate point of the show, I’d probably like “Behind Your Eyes” enough to recommend it. The show takes care to give Louise her own motivations and agency, which Brown brings to life so naturally that it’s genuinely painful to watch Louise throw everything she loves away for a dangerous thrill. The series standout is Brown, who’s particularly good at straddling the line between intrigued outsider and willing participant in the couple’s ongoing mind games. Behind Her Eyes is right up there - and also connects, at one point literally, with Alice in Wonderland.Hewson is terrifying in the role of a person on the edge of snapping at any given moment, a state of being that an increasingly sputtering Bateman has more trouble embodying. Think of movies that stunned you by pulling the rug out from under you, movies with key central shocks like The Sixth Sense, The Usual Suspects, The Crying Game and Se7en. And what begins almost as a romantic comedy finds itself flirting with different genres as it progresses - a bit revenge thriller here, and something else entirely a little later. But nothing in Behind Her Eyes is that basic, not even the geometry of its romantic triangle. In one sense, the story is a basic romantic drama involving a divorced single mom and a couple that's been married for 10 years. Get to the end - the very end - and I all but guarantee you'll be ready to start watching the whole thing all over again. Just promise yourself, in advance, that you'll stay with it, and allow its secrets to slowly reveal themselves. But if you don't know what to expect, you ought to do everything you can to keep it that way, and come to this series as uninformed as possible. If you've read Sarah Pinborough's 2017 novel Behind Her Eyes, you already know what to expect from Netflix's new miniseries adaptation. Tom Bateman and Eve Hewson play a couple whose marriage is not what it seems in Behind Her Eyes.
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