Winter Watchlist Warmers - Behind Her Eyes - Miniseries

I have been watching a bit more British TV of late. What with the US TV strikes, giving up watching free to air shit like the Masked Singer, I have gone back in time to finally watch, Behind Her Eyes.

This noir supernatural psychological thriller series created by Steve Lightfoot, is some weird ass shit. Well it starts out fairly normal, then takes a weird turn. Then a few more weird turns, before a bat shit crazy finale.

Based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough, this landed on Netflix back in February 2021. I do have a number of Netflix series banked up to catch up on, however I have found of all streaming services its quality is a little less than others. For Netflix its more quantity over quality.

The six parter stars Simona Brown, Tom Bateman, Eve Hewson and Robert Aramayo.

The story follows Louise, a single mother, whose world is thrown off kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss, David, and matters take an even stranger turn when she’s drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife, Adele. 

What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no one is what they seem.

In the finale, OK first though if like me you haven't watched this 2021 series, SPOILERS AHEAD!

 

Its about to get bat-shit crazy up in here!

Louise pays a visit to David's former mistress, Marianne, in Brighton where the latter reveals how Adele vandalised her home and threatened her. She then confronts David about Rob's death when he explains it was Adele who threw his body in the well after he had overdosed on heroin. 

After he discovers that Louise has informed the police about Rob's death, David decides to tell them Adele's truth and sets for Scotland. Meanwhile Louise faces Adele for her surreal use of astral projection.

When Adele finds out that Louise has told the police and David has decided to tell her truth, she decides to end her life while texting Louise. Worried, Louise arrives at Adele's house which she has set fire to.

Unable to break in, Louise decides to project out of her body to save Adele. When her soul reaches Adele's body, the latter's soul that was hiding, reaches for Louise's body. 

Now both of them having swapped, Adele arrives in Louise's body and kills Louise in Adele's body with a heroin overdose, completely taking over her life and reconciling with David. 

In the flashback, it is revealed that Adele had told Rob about swapping bodies and when they did, Rob cleverly refused to give Adele's body back and killed her in his own body with a heroin overdose because he fell in love with David himself. Now married to David, Rob lives as Louise while treating Adam cruelly.

So fucking weird. But if it sounds like your thing, it streams now on Netflix.