She insists on buying him a new one, which ends up being out of her price range. Cue the meet-cute: in the next scene, at a bar, Louise bumps into a handsome, thick-maned Scot named David Ferguson (Tom Bateman), spilling his drink all over him. As the series opens, we see her leaving her seven-year-old son, Adam (Tyler Howitt), with a babysitter for a rare night out. Louise Barnsley (the excellent Simona Brown) is a young Black single mom who works as a part-time secretary at a posh mental-health clinic in London.

It’s the kind of show that rewards a rewatch, if one is able to stomach it. But, much like the “sensation fiction” of the Victorian era-those cleverly plotted “novels with a secret” intent on revealing the bonkers impulses beneath the respectable surfaces of ordinary people-“Behind Her Eyes” manages to be both over the top and efficient. Many viewers were outraged by the finale shortly after the show’s six episodes dropped, disturbed fans took to Twitter with the hashtag #WTFThatEnding. “Behind Her Eyes,” Netflix’s new nail-biter of a miniseries, is thematically chaotic, and its characters are messy, but its ending has an effect like breaking the seal of a ketchup bottle-a startling, satisfying pop. And in one of her flashbacks, Adele even hints, 'sleep is different for me.It can be tricky to pull off a double twist. It also explains the scene when Rob-Adele tours Louise's flat she needs to memorize the space to return there in her dreams.

Suddenly she's reserved and nervous around David, instead of carefree and affectionate, and she begins to talk about her past life as 'shitty' and 'nasty.' Audiences, at first, believed this was because Adele was in shock over Rob's death or upset about her parents' death, but really it was just Rob's experiences and persona breaking through.Īstral projection (opens in new tab) is also hinted at throughout the series, most notably in the strange, aerial camera angles that indicate Rob's soul's perspective.

She doesn't keep the box after his death, Rob-Adele just takes the gift he was given, even though he did murder the person who gave him the gift.) And consider how Adele's body language and literally language changes after her body is taken over by Rob. (Same with the wooden box that Adele was shown giving Rob. Not to mention, it only fits that Adele would have Rob's diary if she were not actually Adele and, in fact, Rob's soul in hiding. There's also Rob-Adele's heroin use-Rob was the one with an addiction problem, not Adele, so her using the drug is a clear sign she's not being herself. There's how much Rob-Adele cooks for David-remember, the first time Rob met David, he cooked for him and David was blown away by his abilities, while Adele didn't seem to be able to make anything from scratch. There are, of course, several other clues director Erik Richter Strand snuck into the show to hint at Rob's nefarious involvement.

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