Then, Rob-as-Adele shoots up Rob’s body with more heroin, causing Rob’s body to overdose with Adele’s soul inside, killing both Rob’s physical body and Adele’s soul. ![]() Rob injects himself with enough heroin so that once Adele’s soul is inside his body, she is immobilized and trapped within his flesh vessel forever. Ten years ago, after actual Adele showed Rob how to astral project, Rob convinced her to try swapping souls. This entire time, the woman we’ve been watching and wondering about-is she a manipulative psychopath or the victim of an abusive husband?-is actually Rob, Adele’s best friend from her time at the rehabilitation facility where she went after her parents were killed in a fire at their country estate. I’ll do my best to summarize the twist ending in one sentence: Adele is Rob. Take us deep into the world of lucid dreaming and astral projection-I was missing 2011-era Tumblr, anyway. It’s like the show just said, “Rules? What rules? To hell with narrative structure and consistent, honest, world-building! Genre who?” But you know what? Fine. The term “astral projection” isn’t actually spoken until the last fifteen minutes of Episode Five, but once it is-man, all bets are off. ![]() What begins as an erotic/crime/ psychological thriller takes a sharp turn into supernatural fantasyland in the second-to-last episode. *Final warning: spoilers for Behind Her Eyes below. For the rest of us, though, let’s talk about the Behind Her Eyes twist ending that is truly, actually, legitimately absurd. ![]() If you’ve read Sarah Pinborough’s novel from which the series is adapted, you already know the twist ending and can get on with your life. Come back here when you’re ready to discuss-or just want something to help you process your feelings about what the hell you just watched.ĭespite standout performances by Simona Brown and Eve Hewson, Behind Her Eyes is basically six hours of waiting for an ending that essentially cheats its way into a shocking twist. So if you want to watch it and see if you can guess the ending before it whacks you in the head like a pile of cartoon bricks, go ahead and do that. If you haven’t watched the new limited series on Netflix, be warned: I am 100 percent going to spoil it for you in this article. When I watched the last twenty minutes of Behind Her Eyes this weekend, all I could do was smile and shake my head repeatedly.
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