Behind her eyes [Netflix]

mvl · 21-02-2021 12:44am #1

Just finished Behind her eyes, loved it.

The twist in last episode was something of a surprise. Overall thought Eve Hewson's acting was good, impressed ... soundtrack pretty cool too (e.g. Lykke Li "I know places" ...)

sydthebeat · 21-02-2021 3:14am

Waste of six hours. Called the "twist" after episode 4....

Its a show which really doesn't know what it wants to be.
Robbie is the best character, and is pivotal, yet has too little of screen time. Even at that however he's the most believable character, everyone else is either a 2D caricature or a parody. Louise is OK, David is one of the worst written characters ever and Adele is psycho 101.

If you've nothing else to watch, it's digestible.... But don't expect your socks blown off

The Princess Bride · 21-02-2021 12:00pm

It's funny how so many can see the same series and have different opinions.

I enjoyed it.
I wasn't expecting the twist, but when it came, it actually made the storyline much better than I'd first thought.
It made a few things very clear. And the entire story somehow seemed more clever than I'd initially thought.

I thought Eve Hewson was very good as I'd not seen her act before.
Robert Aramayo as Rob, so nice to see an actor who's not traditionally handsome get a lead role and excel in it.

And David? Surely him being a little all over the place makes complete sense?
Why wouldn't he be, given everything lurking in their past.

I'd recommend it.

mvl · 21-02-2021 1:08pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

Waste of six hours. Called the "twist" after episode 4....

Its a show which really doesn't know what it wants to be.
Robbie is the best character, and is pivotal, yet has too little of screen time. Even at that however he's the most believable character, everyone else is either a 2D caricature or a parody. Louise is OK, David is one of the worst written characters ever and Adele is psycho 101.

If you've nothing else to watch, it's digestible.... But don't expect your socks blown off

Pivotal means exactly that: of importance in relation to the development or success of something else.
- imo Rob is only meant to help build Adele, did what it needed to do, with a bit of Trainspotting flavor - what's new or missing to the role other than that, dunno, I'd say nothing ?!?
Eve's acting is split across two decades, more complex -I defo favor that over the single mom's you seem to OK.

The story line is quirky, but such mini-series doesn't have to appeal to everyone ... same as with every other series on netflix, if you don't like it, for sure you give it up sooner than the 6 episodes ?!?

Fine Cheers · 21-02-2021 10:53pm

Just finished it too. Watched 5 in a row on Sat night and opted to keep the finale back.
Expecting a twist or 2 for sure but wasn't expecting that. To say far fetched is an understatement.
Did get sucked in mid way and and found it intriguing - good performances from all I thought.
There will be a bit of head scratching at the end and I believe there's a support group set up on facebook to help people deal with the ending

sydthebeat · 22-02-2021 12:09pm

mvl wrote: »

.....
- imo Rob is only meant to help build Adele, did what it needed to do, with a bit of Trainspotting flavor - what's new or missing to the role other than that, dunno, I'd say nothing ?!?
......

ermmm

you dont think robbie had any other part to play in the whole thing??
even just a small part .....

LOL

did you even watch the last episode?

mvl wrote: »

....
Eve's acting is split across two decades, more complex -I defo favor that over the single mom's you seem to OK.
.....

no idea what your on about here

mvl · 22-02-2021 3:06pm

sydthebeat wrote: »

ermmm
you dont think robbie had any other part to play in the whole thing??
even just a small part .....
LOL
did you even watch the last episode?

your previous statement on Rob was "yet has too little of screen time"... imo the screen time allocated to Rob is sufficient, for what is a ... pivotal character.

sydthebeat wrote: »

no idea what your on about here

you can replace that part with ... Louise (as she's the single mom in this series, remember ?)

piplip87 · 22-02-2021 8:49pm

Well I didnt see that coming. All in all a good watch, like above Rob by far the best character serious trainspotting vibes from him. The twist at the end very very far fetched but very very original.

JP Liz V1 · 23-02-2021 2:23am

Is it similar to Dr. Foster but with a twist

brianregan09 · 23-02-2021 4:27pm

Thought it was absolutely class ,yeah it's a little out there but the ending made the rest make so much sense

Royale with Cheese · 23-02-2021 4:29pm

Thought this was absolute rubbish. I got to about episode 4 and had a feeling it was about to take an absurd turn, and so it did. I can't say I thought much of Eve Hewson either. Her accent slipped constantly and was her character not supposed to be Scottish?

Fine Cheers · 23-02-2021 6:16pm

Don't agree with it being rubbish but defo an issue with the accent slipping in the later episodes. To be fair the accent was never Scottish, more English I thought but it did drift into her native tone at times. But overall I thought she did well at playing the nutter. Why was she in 'hospital' at the very start, assume it was following the death of her parents but not sure if that was ever made clear ?

Royale with Cheese · 23-02-2021 6:24pm

That's my point, she never even attempted a Scottish accent. Her character was Scottish unless I'm mistaken about it. She grew up on a Scottish country estate, she may not have had a thick working class accent like Rob but surely would have had something of a Scottish accent.

23-02-2021 6:50pm

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

That's my point, she never even attempted a Scottish accent. Her character was Scottish unless I'm mistaken about it. She grew up on a Scottish country estate, she may not have had a thick working class accent like Rob but surely would have had something of a Scottish accent.

The Scottish aristocrats often have a received pronunciation accent.

Not in Kansas · 24-02-2021 10:28am

I had no problem with Eve Hewson's accent. She obviously did the accent she was asked to do, and it's quite likely that someon like Adele went to a posh boarding school. I do agree that Rob was the most compelling character.

I really enjoyed this, and I didn't see the twist coming. Digesting that ending was probably the longest I've gone without thinking about the bloody pandemic in ages.

stronglikebull · 25-02-2021 12:44am

Just finished the last 2 episodes tonight, and have to say I'm disappointed with it. I thought at the start that it was a really good psychological thriller, but then, it changed. A more sci-fi story to it then, which kind of ruined it for me. I like sci-fi, but not when it comes from left field like that, and not in my psych-thrillers.

Worth watching, but not if you don't like crazy off the wall twists.

Azatadine · 25-02-2021 11:21am

Big let down in the end. Really jumped the shark.

gmisk · 28-02-2021 10:04pm

I must admit I was a tad intrigued by the first episode of this show...but then it went gradually and then dramatically off the rails

I honestly don't mind something a bit weird or even sci fi...I was about to spoil another show but I wont...but this was just too bonkers and stupid for me. Eve Hewson was weird and stilted but that kind of made some sense I suppose...it was all a bit mad and OTT, not for me give me a good scandi show any day, I recommend the Valhalla murders on Netflix.

Fr Tod Umptious · 07-03-2021 8:58am

Just finished it.

I enjoyed it.

I spent most of the time trying to figure out who was the real nutcase.

I loved the twist in the end even though I usually hate anything remotely sci-fi.

Really felt sorry for the kid Adam in the end, in the last episode when Louise dropped him off to the father you though that if anything bad happens to her he at least will be safe and in a good home. But then he ends up with someone who has taken the body of his mother

zerosugarbuzz · 07-03-2021 9:03am

sydthebeat wrote: »

Waste of six hours. Called the "twist" after episode 4....

Its a show which really doesn't know what it wants to be.
Robbie is the best character, and is pivotal, yet has too little of screen time. Even at that however he's the most believable character, everyone else is either a 2D caricature or a parody. Louise is OK, David is one of the worst written characters ever and Adele is psycho 101.

If you've nothing else to watch, it's digestible.... But don't expect your socks blown off

Agree, except for the twist at the end, that totally got me

Gruffalux · 07-03-2021 9:10am

Binge watched it iver last few days. I enjoyed it. All characters were strong. The twist to sci fi was unusual. It was all a bit different.

xzanti · 07-03-2021 12:32pm

The Princess Bride wrote: »

It's funny how so many can see the same series and have different opinions.

I enjoyed it.
I wasn't expecting the twist, but when it came, it actually made the storyline much better than I'd first thought.
It made a few things very clear. And the entire story somehow seemed more clever than I'd initially thought.

I thought Eve Hewson was very good as I'd not seen her act before.
Robert Aramayo as Rob, so nice to see an actor who's not traditionally handsome get a lead role and excel in it.

And David? Surely him being a little all over the place makes complete sense?
Why wouldn't he be, given everything lurking in their past.

I'd recommend it.

I agree. Didn't expect the twist at all, and I usually predict twists pretty early on in these things.

To be honest it gave me nightmares

07-03-2021 12:37pm

There was no way to predict the twist, as one guy said he did earlier. Probably if I watched it back I would see it made some sense. There was one scene which didn’t make a lot of sense involving one of the characters seeming jealous which didn’t go well with his sexual orientation, that later did make sense.

Only in the last episode did we learn the fact that could have solved the mystery.

Wrongway1985 · 07-03-2021 4:49pm

I suspect people who can't comprehend the ending being worked out are people who generally wouldn't touch the horror genre with a barge pole. Figured it was where they were going before the conclusion myself.

An okay passable show with a bunch to discuss but it's not something I'd recommend. Acting from the leads wasn't up to a whole lot wasn't shocked to look up and discover the guy wasn't even Scottish (in fact neither was the Rob actor but he'd an improved accent ha), Eve Hewson was grand but won't be shaking the young Bono tag based on that performance.

07-03-2021 5:28pm

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

I suspect people who can't comprehend the ending being worked out are people who generally wouldn't touch the horror genre with a barge pole. Figured it was where they were going before the conclusion myself.

It’s not a horror show. Not really. And it was more like a psychological drama to begin with. There were two twists. Both came right after each other. The second twist depended on the first. The first depended on a fact that was revealed only in the last episode. And that depended on something revealed in the penultimate episode.

The first 4 episodes didn’t even mention anything supernatural.

Which is why some people don’t like it. I was ok with it but I didn’t need to work it all out.

07-03-2021 7:06pm

I thought it was good, but once you saw the different colours, you knew what was up!!!

Wrongway1985 · 07-03-2021 7:59pm

Deleted User wrote: »

It’s not a horror show. Not really. And it was more like a psychological drama to begin with. There were two twists. Both came right after each other.[/spoiler]

I didn't say it was a horror (which it certainly isn't) just that the concept has been done to death in the horror genre albeit with more success. My thought was just that outside of that spectrum many may be unaware, unique a previous poster described it as.

Of course selling it like a conventional drama but for it to materialize that it's actually a sci-fi is bound to ruffle some feathers naturally. Personally don't have those limitations so wasn't overly fussed, slightly baffled perhaps not for me but out of sheer interest in the reaction of others maybe.

No they didn't mention
anything supernatural
in the first 4 but the flashbacks were from Robs point of view and it stuck in my head can't remember the particular line but essentially
he wants to...BE HER
this combined with the twist when they
showed the orbs leaving the bodies
the minute they did that I had it set that the eventual outcome was very much a distinct possibility.

07-03-2021 8:17pm

Wrongway1985 wrote: »

I didn't say it was a horror (which it certainly isn't) just that the concept has been done to death in the horror genre albeit with more success. My thought was just that outside of that spectrum many may be unaware, unique a previous poster described it as.

Of course selling it like a conventional drama but for it to materialize that it's actually a sci-fi is bound to ruffle some feathers naturally. Personally don't have those limitations so wasn't overly fussed, slightly baffled perhaps not for me but out of sheer interest in the reaction of others maybe.

No they didn't mention
anything supernatural
in the first 4 but the flashbacks were from Robs point of view and it stuck in my head can't remember the particular line but essentially
he wants to...BE HER
this combined with the twist when they
showed the orbs leaving the bodies
the minute they did that I had it set that the eventual outcome was very much a distinct possibility.

Hmm. Firstly its not sci fi at all. Not set in the future. Or in a galaxy far far away. There is no technology involved in it at all. You might be confusing Sci Fi with supernatural. As for the other claims:

The flashbacks were always both Adele and Rob. The orbs leaving the bodies, wasn't even shown until episode 5. Astral projection isn't a real thing but even if you can accept that it happens, it doesn't mean people can swap souls permanently. Also it doesn't make much sense that Rob would kill someone he claimed to love over a guy he just met. He was until then shown relatively sympathetically. Theres no way of working anything out until the last episode.

Purple Mountain · 07-03-2021 8:19pm

I read the book.
Biggest pile of shoite going.

Wrongway1985 · 07-03-2021 8:50pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Hmm. Firstly its not sci fi at all. Not set in the future. Or in a galaxy far far away. There is no technology involved in it at all. You might be confusing Sci Fi with supernatural. As for the other claims:
The flashbacks were always both Adele and Rob. The orbs leaving the bodies, wasn't even shown until episode 5. Astral projection isn't a real thing but even if you can accept that it happens, it doesn't mean people can swap souls permanently. Also it doesn't make much sense that Rob would kill someone he claimed to love over a guy he just met. He was until then shown relatively sympathetically. Theres no way of working anything out until the last episode.

Okay this is weird you seem to be particular over the notion people couldn't draw their own conclusions before the reveal.

Sci-Fi means science fiction like even you say

Astral projection

is not scientifically possible, this is most certainly a Sci-Fi element, if you only associate movies set in Space as Sci-Fi that's your business.

Despite

Adele

obviously appearing in the flashbacks it was always with the slant of

Robs

troubles, his impressions of

Adele

etc.

Hector Savage · 10-03-2021 11:09am

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9698442/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Just finished watching this, very good series, great twist, I kind of wish now I had read the book first ....

Eve Hewson (Bono's daughter) is a decent actress too ...

edit oops, just discovered the other thread, and can't seem to delete this ... /sorry

sydthebeat · 10-03-2021 11:11am

Deleted User wrote: »

There was no way to predict the twist, as one guy said he did earlier. Probably if I watched it back I would see it made some sense. There was one scene which didn’t make a lot of sense involving one of the characters seeming jealous which didn’t go well with his sexual orientation, that later did make sense.

Only in the last episode did we learn the fact that could have solved the mystery.

wells thats patently untrue

Hector Savage · 10-03-2021 11:12am

sydthebeat wrote: »

Waste of six hours. Called the "twist" after episode 4....

Its a show which really doesn't know what it wants to be.
Robbie is the best character, and is pivotal, yet has too little of screen time. Even at that however he's the most believable character, everyone else is either a 2D caricature or a parody. Louise is OK, David is one of the worst written characters ever and Adele is psycho 101.

If you've nothing else to watch, it's digestible.... But don't expect your socks blown off

You called the twist

That it was Rob ?? I can get the calling that Eve would swap with Louise, but never saw the Rob bit ...

sydthebeat · 10-03-2021 11:13am

Hector Savage wrote: »

You called the twist
That it was Rob ?? I can get the calling that Eve would swap with Louise, but never saw the Rob bit ...

think about the point at which

she first used heroine

and in the same episode (4) which was based around rob, he kept telling her how he was in love with the life she had

Hector Savage · 10-03-2021 11:20am

sydthebeat wrote: »

think about the point at which
she first used heroine

and in the same episode (4) which was based around rob, he kept telling her how he was in love with the life she had

I suppose looking in hindsight ...

JoeExotic81 · 10-03-2021 12:17pm

It was pretty terrible and silly after a strong start. The whole supernatural side of things was woefully handled.

nottalking2u · 10-03-2021 1:16pm

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Just finished it.

I enjoyed it.

I spent most of the time trying to figure out who was the real nutcase

I'm on the third episode so this ^^ is where I am right now.

Not bad so far although I've ruined it a bit for myself by reading some of the thread!! can't resist spoilers

Hector Savage · 10-03-2021 2:12pm

nottalking2u wrote: »

I'm on the third episode so this ^^ is where I am right now.

Not bad so far although I've ruined it a bit for myself by reading some of the thread!! can't resist spoilers

Stay away from this thread, seriously some series spoilers aren't that much of a big deal you could still enjoy the show, but this show it's pivotal.

nottalking2u · 10-03-2021 2:19pm

Hector Savage wrote: »

Stay away from this thread, seriously some series spoilers aren't that much of a big deal you could still enjoy the show, but this show it's pivotal.

I will

All I read is that it's sci-fi and there's a twist.

GLaDOS · 11-03-2021 11:11am

Generally enjoyed it. The

astral projection

had me rolling my eyes a bit. No problem with

supernatural stuff

, but introducing it three quarters way through like that felt like a bit of Deus Ex Machina.

Feel it unraveled a bit with the

final twist. It seems massively out of character with everything we've seen of Rob in the previous 5 and a bit episodes. And too much has to fall into place for his plan to switch into Louise's body to work. Superficially, it was a good twist, but the more I think about it the more it annoys me.

.

Thought the acting as generally good, no complaints there.

mewso · 11-03-2021 6:58pm

GLaDOS wrote: »

Generally enjoyed it. The
astral projection
had me rolling my eyes a bit. No problem with
supernatural stuff
, but introducing it three quarters way through like that felt like a bit of Deus Ex Machina.

Feel it unraveled a bit with the
final twist. It seems massively out of character with everything we've seen of Rob in the previous 5 and a bit episodes. And too much has to fall into place for his plan to switch into Louise's body to work. Superficially, it was a good twist, but the more I think about it the more it annoys me.
.

Thought the acting as generally good, no complaints there.

Yeah that ending -

I need to rescue someone from a fire. I know I'll do that thing I've managed to do once, by accident, right now. It'll be easy to just calm down and breath in these circumstances and maybe I can, I don't know, jump into their body somehow. Feck it lets go for it.

Sakana · 11-03-2021 10:30pm

The thing that gets me in shows like this that

have a crazy supernatural thing going on is that, when the supernatural going-on is revealed, the characters are still fixating on who killed who and not the fact that people can ****ing leave their bodies and float around.

Faith · 15-03-2021 4:29pm

mewso wrote: »

Yeah that ending -
I need to rescue someone from a fire. I know I'll do that thing I've managed to do once, by accident, right now. It'll be easy to just calm down and breath in these circumstances and maybe I can, I don't know, jump into their body somehow. Feck it lets go for it.

Binged watched the show over the weekend and I'd agree with this being my major bug bear. I really enjoyed it overall, but way too many chance occurrences has to take place for that ending.

Firstly, Louise rushes to the house in a bloody Uber. She would have had to call it, wait for it, drive over there in London traffic, and at no point did she think "I'll ring the emergency services".

Then she couldn't get in to the house, so again, the logical thought is "RING THE EMERGENCY SERVICES", not astral projection. What was her aim there? How would she even have helped, just watching what was going on?

Finally, she's managed to astral project once before, while lucid dreaming. Is she really supposed to have A) mastered the art of it well enough to do it while awake, in seconds, or

have managed to fall asleep on the doorstep of a burning building while her friend dies inside?

Rob really took a gamble on her getting in time, not calling the emergency services, and using astral projection when there was no clear reason for her to do so.

I did figure out the twist early in the final episode, but I thought

maybe Adele AND Rob were in Adele's body, but Rob was in charge of everything, and that the ending might involve Rob being pushed out of Adele's body

. I thought that might be a more interesting outcome because it had the potential for

David to get Adele back and have to choose between her and Louise

.

edit: Reading more online, people have mentioned that

Louise called 999 in the cab

but I must have missed that.

Earthhorse · 07-04-2021 10:07pm

Deleted User wrote: »

There was no way to predict the twist, as one guy said he did earlier.

I think that is only true if

you are not familiar with lucid dreaming and astral projection. If you are then it wasn’t that hard to predict; as another poster said at the point she went to score some heroine I realised she must be Rob (as they hadn’t introduced the astral projection bit quite at that point I thought he must have swapped with her in a shared dream).

I do agree with what you about Rob's character though; him killing Louise when he loves her so much is a bit of stretch. Not so much that it ruined it for me but it just felt inconsistent in his character.

Overall, I really annoyed this. I thought it was a clever concept well executed. I thought all the leads, bar David, were excellent and that the mood and pacing worked really well.

I’m frustrated with the abuse of the word sci-fi to describe anything outside of straight fiction these days but it seems to be a trend you can’t fight.

Behind her eyes [Netflix]

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