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The ending of "Behind Her Eyes" is silly and insane - and yet it's the best thing about it
Netflix's British mini-series changes direction in the middle from a generic story to supernatural realms, which are also not very interesting.
But then comes the end, and though it is foolish and outrageous, he paints everything in new and interesting colors.
In fact, it might even be better to watch the series when you know what's going on at the end
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Sarah Pinborough
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Sunday, 21 February 2021, 22:03
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Trailer for the series "Behind Her Eyes" (Netflix)
On her face there is something almost parody in Netflix's new British mini-series, "Behind Her Eyes".
Its genericity seems to have been created in a factory for psychological suspense series based on ordinary flight books - in this case the novel of the same name by Sarah Pinborough.
You know - dark secrets from the past, deceptive relationships, betrayals, lies, addictions and other wagers.
In this case the plot is about Louise (Simona Brown, "The Little Drummer"), a divorcee who is being cared for by her seven-year-old son, and meets one evening at random in David (Tom Bateman, "The Beachham Estate," "Da Vinci's Secrets"), a handsome stranger.
The next day she discovers that he is her new boss, and soon also meets his wife - Adele (Yves Jason, "Nick", Bono's daughter from U2), which does not stop her from cultivating an affair with him and secretly befriending Adele.
It then becomes clear to Louise that David treats his wife in a very restrictive and threatening way, allocates her out-of-pocket expenses, prescribes her lots of sedatives, requires her to report to him devoutly on her actions and so on.
Meanwhile, the series returns to the past, in a series of flashbacks showing Adele in her youth in a rehabilitation institution, after her family estate was partially burned and her parents perished.
There Adele befriends a young man named Rob (Robert Aramayo, he is the young Ned Stark from "Game of Thrones"), a drug addict who due to mysterious circumstances is no longer in her life.
As befits a banal story, throughout the six episodes of the series it is all described in a rather slow and boring way.
The series continues to be like this even when at some point in the middle we are suddenly exposed to a new, supernatural element that seems completely detached from what comes before it.
It could be said that this is the big problem of "Behind Her Eyes" - the sudden change from a realistic relationship thriller to a fantastic tale - and given the many disappointed reactions across the network this is undoubtedly a problem, but the truth is that this element is about the only thing intriguing in the series.
Not because it is intriguing in itself, but because it leads to something else, bigger.
From here on out spoilers for all "behind her eyes".
Please note, if you are planning to watch and do not want to know what happens at the end of the series, stop reading now.
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Mostly slow, smeared and rather dull.
Yves Jason and Tom Bateman, "Behind Her Eyes" (Photo: Netflix)
During the episodes it becomes clear that Adele controls her dreams, to such an extent that while she sleeps she has the ability to wander in her consciousness to the real reality, a comment, and to observe others without their knowledge.
When this happens, her slumped body is completely disconnected from what is happening around her - this is why in her youth she did not wake up when a fire consumed part of her family home.
Now, through this ability, Adele finds out about the relationship that is developing between her husband and his new employee, so she decides to befriend Louise as part of a super-plot that becomes increasingly satanic.
Since Louise suffers from nightmares and night terrors, Adele also teaches her how to curb her dreams and harness her to her advantage.
If you're in a nightmare, imagine Adele's practice, then go for it.
Through the doors you imagine, the consciousness is able to go out into the real world.
Moreover, it turns out that one of the options in this process is to exchange consciousnesses.
If two fall asleep and leave their body at the same time, one consciousness can enter a second body, and vice versa.
This is what Adele builds on, in a show that is as stupid as it is evil.
At the climax of the last episode Adele leaves a suicide note, takes heroin and ignites a fire.
But she did not really plan to die, oh no.
"Did you really think I would let this happen?" She tells her victim.
Adele relied on Louise coming to her house, failing to get inside, sitting on the doorstep, putting herself into a trance quickly, pulling her mind out of her body and going up with her to Adele's room.
At this point, as Louise's consciousness hovers over Adele's body, Adele's consciousness will populate Louise's empty body.
Then, for some reason, without Louise knowing that this is what Adele did, she herself would put her consciousness into Adele's body.
Why would you do that?
Do not ask difficult questions.
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A thousand other options.
Simona Brown, "Behind Her Eyes" (Photo: Nick Wall, Netflix)
It is a completely scribbled and perforated story that suffers in general from a lack of advance preparation, something that will warn from the beginning that there is a supernatural element in it, and at the same time will properly train its internal logic.
If on the way there you can still dance, the realization of the last part of Adele's show is simply one of the absurd things recently seen on screen.
The whole plot rests on chicken legs, relying on masses of assumptions and things that are unlikely to happen, let alone all of them.
Far more sensible scenarios: Louise will not come to Adele's house at all.
Louise will not be able to fall asleep / get into a trance within seconds on the verge of a house on fire.
Louise would not think of patrolling the house with her mind, because it was of no use, and instead would wait for the rescue services she had ordered on her way there.
Louise will be able to enter the house - as she has done in the past - and carry Adele out of it.
Nonetheless, Adele burns the house with complete confidence that all logical things will not happen and all irrational things will happen.
And look at this miracle, Louise is finally paralyzed by heroin in Adele's body, unable to escape the fire.
Adele takes her body and her life, reuniting in her new body with David who is in love with Louise - without knowing that it is not really her - on the way with him and her "son" to a new beginning and a new place.
Dumb as it may be, this twist is nevertheless powerful, simply because it is unparalleled tragic.
Not only because evil defeats good - and Louise was good despite her moral sins and foolish choices - but mostly because of her young son, Adam.
He immediately recognizes that something is wrong with his mother, that there is something different about her, but he will probably never understand what it is, nor has he ever known love on her part as he has known so far.
It is a heartbreaking news that ends with "behind her eyes."
But even before that she adds another twist, even more enormous and almost as tragic.
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The man behind it all.
Robert Aramayo as Rob, "Behind Her Eyes" (Photo: Netflix)
In another flashback, from those that accompany the series throughout, we find that this is not the first time Adele has replaced bodies.
In fact, Adele is not really Adele.
All this time we've seen her in the present, she's actually been a majority - the same dear friend of her once, who turned out to be a traitor.
Earlier we learned that Rob's body had been dumped at the bottom of the well in the grounds of Adele's family estate.
In practice, it turns out that at the time of death the body inhabited Adele's consciousness.
The two exchanged bodies as part of a consciousness experiment, and immediately Rob-in-Adele's body took over his old body, injected an overdose of heroin and murdered Adele inside.
He then dragged his body and threw it into the well.
As in the literary source, presumably the television adaptation would also have been happy had this plot turn made us want to watch again from the beginning to see “Behind Her Eyes” in the new light.
However this is simply too excessive a requirement.
Although in retrospect the revelation arouses interest in the series' dull moments - i.e .: 99 percent of the smeared story that precedes the twists - more than a desire to watch a fairly random series again, it only underscores its disappointing construction.
Those who got bored had already retired early, and those who still enjoyed another drama of suspense and mystery, were suddenly snatched in the middle into a completely different genre.
Personally I would probably rather know from the beginning, or at least at a much earlier stage, at the end of the first episode let’s say, that Adele is a majority.
And not just through allusions like "you act like Stafford's wife."
The feeling is that there is more value and interest in watching such a story, which makes the tale of the love triangle much less routine and much gloomier, exposing the supernatural element of the series in advance so that it is fair to viewers, and doing so without even having to avoid Adele exchanges -Louise.
But not.
"Behind Her Eyes" chooses to sacrifice the plot on the altar of twists, and therefore comes out bald from here and there: yawning almost its entire length and then irrational in its ending.
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