![]() In a different storytelling era, Behind Her Eyes surely would have been a two-hour feature film. Almost immediately, Louise is engaged in very different liaisons with both David and Adele, though neither husband nor wife knows that the other is involved with Louise.Įve Hewson Stars in the Hush-Hush Netflix Series 'Behind Her Eyes' - But Details Are Top Secret ![]() After Louise (Simona Brown) and David (Tom Bateman) have a romantic meet-cute at a London bar, Louise goes to her job as a receptionist at a psychiatrists’ office and discovers that David is her new boss! Yes, it’s the introductory premise of Grey’s Anatomy as well!ĭavid, it turns out, is married and this becomes important when David’s wife Adele ( Eve Hewson) and Louise have an accidental platonic meet-cute of their own. The last two episodes, all cumbersome justification for what came before, went from dumb to laughably silly.Īdapted for the small screen by Steve Lightfoot and directed by Erik Richter Strand - yes, it’s 2021 and we’re still getting novels by women, about women, with the female gaze explicitly in the title that are translated primarily by men - Behind Her Eyes starts off as a garden variety tale of erotic obsession. Then for two episodes, I began to be respectfully curious about its unspecified mysteriousness. For two episodes I found the series, based on the novel by Sarah Pinborough, to be oddly generic. The new six-part Netflix miniseries Behind Her Eyes, much more modern and yet still awash in gothic trappings, is closer to a worst-case scenario. ![]() But it was a show that, for me, worked best in a place of spooky insinuation and became less interesting the more it spelled out exactly what was happening. Netflix’s The Haunting of Bly Manor, itself an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw, never quite descended into ridiculousness.
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