9/2/2023 0 Comments Eyes behind her‘Are we really going to try and dissect whether or not souls can die in another person’s body? I don’t think it’s even worth trying to understand.’Īnd thus, critic time was over – Behind Her Eyes vanished from our brains as quickly as it entered. ‘George, listen to what you’re saying,’ she laughed. ‘Surely, your soul would snap back into your body and the other person would just be dead?’ ‘I really don’t believe that if you’ve swapped souls with someone and your body dies, your soul would die too,’ I told my sister, who was still sat staring blankly at the TV five minutes later. Last night, I finally finished Behind Her Eyes and like everyone on the entire planet, could not quite fathom whether what I’d just watched was a sheer genius or too ludicrous to even warrant discussion. One of the myriad complaints laid at Game Of Thrones was that its ending was too happy (fans are rarely pleased when showrunners go out of their way to please them) - something that worked perfectly last year for lockdown favourite Schitt’s Creek, a show unabashedly created in a candy store and designed to put a smile on your face.īut sometimes a happy ending also works wonders because it subverts the rest of a show, as in recent Netflix chess success The Queen’s Gambit, an often dark and daring look at addiction and obsession, making its protagonist’s rather unexpectedly sunny outcome all the more enjoyable.Spoilers to the ending of Behind Her Eyes below. Retconning Roseanne had just made it all up. The titular heroine, played by Roseanne Barr, wiped out the events of the entire final season when she revealed her husband Dan (John Goodman) hadn’t really survived his Season 8 heart attack and that her family hadn’t become lotto millionaires, as depicted earlier. The ninth season of US sitcom Roseanne dropped a big surprise on viewers. But that’s exactly how Season 9 of hit US sitcom Roseanne ended in 1997. Sounds ludicrous, doesn’t it? Because it is. Jon Snow could have broken the fourth wall (not the one keeping out the White Walkers and Free Folk) and told viewers the final season didn’t really happen. Read more: Will there be a second season of 'Behind Her Eyes' on Netflix?īut how does a show land a perfect ending when it’s been running for a number of series? Don’t ask that question of most Game Of Thrones fans, whose anger at its eighth season is still felt almost two years after it aired. The story of single mother Louise (played by Brown), who becomes embroiled with couple Adele and David (Hewson and Bateman), Behind Her Eyes is smart enough to race to its climax in only six episodes. The Netflix adaptation has been widely savaged by the critics, but that hasn’t stopped millions of viewers ticking it to the front of their watch lists. This was a book that was promoted four years ago with the hashtag #WTFthatending. Readers of the novel knew what was coming, of course. Tom Bateman and Simona Brown in Behind Her Eyes. “I finished watching it and then I had a shower and went to bed and I was still thinking, ‘That ending, man!’ – and I made it up!” Pinborough told The Guardian this week. Just ask its author, who was equally as floored by the finale as everyone else. That’s largely down to the fact it’s a secret worth keeping, but also because the show’s denouement is so far out there it’s almost impossible to explain. Read more: The best reactions to that absolutely wild Behind Her Eyes ending 1 of Netflix’s Top 10 UK list since it dropped last week.Īnd it’s all because of its jaw-dropping finale, which we won’t spoil here. The thriller series, starring Simona Brown, Eve Hewson and Tom Bateman and based on Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 bestselling novel, has been stuck at No. Just look at the Marmite reactions from those who have binged new Netflix hit Behind Her Eyes. The line between the sense and nonsense of an ending is a fine one. Eve Hewson and Tom Bateman in Behind Her Eyes.
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