Behind Her Eyes

[Smithy]

Netflix has ordered the adaptation of Sarah Pinborough's best-selling psychological thriller Behind Her Eyes – so prepare for a killer twist and bedtime with the lights on after viewing.

The six-part series follows the story of Louise, a hard-working single-mother who is supporting her son with a part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. Her world is thrown off-kilter when she begins an affair with her new boss David and matters take an even stranger turn when she's drawn into an unlikely friendship with his wife Adele.

What starts as an unconventional love triangle soon becomes a dark, psychological tale of suspense and twisted revelations, as Louise finds herself caught in a dangerous web of secrets where nothing and no-one is what they seem.



Ahhhhh the book was so good, Netflix better do it justice

[Smithy]

This is out Feb 17th!

https://www.netflix.com/title/80244630?s=i&trkid=13747225

:amazed::amazed:

[Mystic Mock]

The description of it sounds very OTT.:joker:

It might be worth a look.

[Smithy]

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Trailer :amazed:

[Smithy]

Out today :D

[Niamh.]

I hate when they tell you there's a "killer twist" though, it ruins the surprise of twists when you're looking for one.....I will still watch

[Vicky.]

I hate when they tell you there's a "killer twist" though, it ruins the surprise of twists when you're looking for one.....I will still watch

Without the warning of a killer twist though, would you not be expecting a killer twist, in which case this cannot ruin the surprise of a killer twist :suspect:

[Niamh.]

Without the warning of a killer twist though, would you not be expecting a killer twist, in which case this cannot ruin the surprise of a killer twist :suspect:

I'm so confused now :bawling:

[Smithy]

I'm so confused now :bawling:

She means even if it didn’t say there was a twist, would not expect one anyone bc most shows have them nowadays

[Smithy]

It’s honestly such a good twist I was so gagged when i read it

[Niamh.]

She means even if it didn’t say there was a twist, would not expect one anyone bc most shows have them nowadays

Not all shows do. It must be just me, once I know there's a twist I spend the whole time watching it trying to figure out what it is and a lot of times I figure it out and that's really disappointing :laugh:

[Vicky.]

I don't think I have ever seen a crime type show that does not have a twist. Besides the true crime ones. And even them sometimes have one added for suspense :laugh:

Will add this to my watchlist anyway, though knowing its a book makes me want to read it first, as generally speaking, the books are 100x better than the tv adaptations.

[Smithy]

Can one of yall update the title to just Behind Her Eyes too, it still says “Netflix Orders Adaptation of...” thanks :hee:

[Smithy]

Not all shows do. It must be just me, once I know there's a twist I spend the whole time watching it trying to figure out what it is and a lot of times I figure it out and that's really disappointing :laugh:
You definitely won’t with this :hehe:
I don't think I have ever seen a crime type show that does not have a twist. Besides the true crime ones. And even them sometimes have one added for suspense :laugh:

Will add this to my watchlist anyway, though knowing its a book makes me want to read it first, as generally speaking, the books are 100x better than the tv adaptations.

This isn’t really crime-y but it’s still so good :love:

[Vicky.]

Says ' Behind Her Eyes [New Netflix Series]' to me? Unless niamh has ninja'd me

[Niamh.]

Says ' Behind Her Eyes [New Netflix Series]' to me? Unless niamh has ninja'd me

I changed it, it said it on the thread title when you click into the thread but not on the title when it's just on the TV Chat list

[Niamh.]

You definitely won’t with this :hehe:


This isn’t really crime-y but it’s still so good :love:

Ok I'm intrigued now, might put it on tonight :laugh:

[Vicky.]

smithy do you recommend book first? Or it is one of the rare things that the tv is just as god as/better?

[Niamh.]

smithy do you recommend book first? Or it is one of the rare things that the tv is just as god as/better?

It's only out today, has he even watched it yet?

[Vicky.]

Oh, assumed he had :facepalm: Prob not yet

[Smithy]

I’ve only watched the first ep so far, if I finish it in the next couple of days I’ll let you know!

[Smithy]

-will probably finish it tonight-

[Niamh.]

I watched the first 4 episodes last night, here's my prediction (I hope I'm wrong) :

I think Adele killed Robert and what she's actually holding over David is that he dumped his body down the well to protect her. I think she may also have started the fire that killed her parents. I think she bought the heroin to overdose Louise (the last we saw of her was when she was in Adeles house thinking she had OD'd. I think she probably did similar to the woman in the cosy cafe in Brighton.

That's all very predictable so I hope I'm totally wrong. The only bit that's a bit weird though and making me think I might be wrong is that in Louises nightmare it seems like she's in a burned manor house like Adele's family home which would be odd because she wouldn't have known about that house to have nightmares about it or maybe she's predicting the future and Adele will bring her there I don't know. Also what's the story with Adele dreaming she was in the room with David and Louise and that's how she knew about their affair hhhmmmm

Anyway good show so far, I hope the ending doesn't let me down

[Smithy]

I watched the first 4 episodes last night, here's my prediction (I hope I'm wrong) :

I think Adele killed Robert and what she's actually holding over David is that he dumped his body down the well to protect her. I think she may also have started the fire that killed her parents. I think she bought the heroin to overdose Louise (the last we saw of her was when she was in Adeles house thinking she had OD'd. I think she probably did similar to the woman in the cosy cafe in Brighton.

That's all very predictable so I hope I'm totally wrong. The only bit that's a bit weird though and making me think I might be wrong is that in Louises nightmare it seems like she's in a burned manor house like Adele's family home which would be odd because she wouldn't have known about that house to have nightmares about it or maybe she's predicting the future and Adele will bring her there I don't know. Also what's the story with Adele dreaming she was in the room with David and Louise and that's how she knew about their affair hhhmmmm

Anyway good show so far, I hope the ending doesn't let me down

:hehe:

[Niamh.]

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[Smithy]

Did you get what was going on with Adele when she’s asleep Niamh?

[Niamh.]

Did you get what was going on with Adele when she’s asleep Niamh?

It seemed like she was travelling out of her body watching David?

[Niamh.]

Using her dream door to go where ever she wanted kind of?

[Niamh.]

But don't tell me, I'm finishing it tonight!

[AnnieK]

But don't tell me, I'm finishing it tonight!

So far would you definitely recommend watching it Namh?

[Niamh.]

So far would you definitely recommend watching it Namh?

Yeah definitely, we got through 4 episodes last night and they're almost an hour long each :laugh:

as a side note, that actress who plays Louise is really good, haven't seen her before I don't think

[Smithy]

No spoilers from me :hehe:

But glad you’re enjoying it :hee:

[Ammi]

...I love the soundtrack for this...:lovedup:..


...maybe because I’ve just watched Sucker Punch so will probably be completely off key atm...but it’s feeling a bit like Adele and Louise are both his patients and maybe still in the mental health care home even and the whole story is in their dreams ...and he’s meducating them to control them and maybe abuse them...and their medication is giving them night terrors...Louise, may be self harming with the wounds on her arms...

[Niamh.]

How much have you watched Ammi? (just checking if I can open your spoiler or not?)

[Smithy]

You can open it, it’s nothing more than where you’re up to

[rusticgal]

Was it good though?

[Niamh.]

You can open it, it’s nothing more than where you’re up to

Oh damn, I wish I hadn't opened it now, that sounds very plausible :fist:

[Smithy]

Just finished it, as adaptations go it was a very good one, there are a few differences to the book and a few things that hint towards the end that don’t appear in the book

(Actual spoilers)

In the books you don’t find out that Rob is gay until the swap, which is what makes it such an :o moment

Also in the show in the final ep you obviously see the blue ball watching the green ball enter Adele and the blue ball in the earlier ep was rob, so that’s sort of a giveaway if you’re paying close attention :eyes:

Also in the book Adele kills the cat :omgno:

[Niamh.]

I'm going to finish it tonight

[Ammi]

...oh, I’d forgotten to post which episode it was and I can’t recall but I think maybe episode 2 so quite early....but though...spoiler for episode 4...

...so Adele is a drug addict and that’s why she was in the care home and that’s why David asked Lou about the local area...to find out where someone would get drugs...maybe it wasn’t part of the reason for her to be in the clinic...maybe it was through spending time with Rob in there when she became addicted...?...but and I still think that David is medicating them and that if Adele is an addict, he maybe supplying her drugs ....I’m a bit confused, actually..and did David burn his arm because he started the fire and killed her parents so that she would inherit and he’d planned to marry her to have that inheritance or control it...but he had told her the story that he had saved her and she believed him because she had had no awareness at the fire starting time/...had been high on drugs.etc...?....hmmmmm...

[Niamh.]

So Gavin figured the twist out partially in episode 5 and then fully in episode 6. I'll do a proper review tomorrow

[Ammi]

...spoilers including the ending...


...I hadn’t seen that at all, I’d realised that it was Adele ...Adele from hell, but it wasn’t Adele, it was Rob, obviously and his obsession for David...With Astral Projection you surely wouldn’t be able to project inside any other body, like taking host bodies...that would be supernatural, you would be able to live forever in host bodies and what would happen when that host died...


...anyways, it was a good ending in terms of a twist..(...I guess...)....but I don’t know also...it didn’t quite make sense either but a good watch anyway...it kept me gripped...but poor Adam, though...a pretty horrendous future for him and that didn’t sit right...maybe he would go to live with his dad and step mother and have no connection to Lou/Rob but that wouldn’t sit right with David, would it...and maybe Rob’s drug habit would end his life anyway in the not too distant...

[Niamh.]

Gav guessed that Adele was going to jump into Louise in episode 5 and then in episode 6 when David and Rob met he guessed that Rob had actually jumped into Adele's body.

It was a good show but the ending is so unsatisfying, I hate that Louise was lost and Adele too because she really was a lovely person after all. And I felt so bad for Adam, I was hoping Rob would leave him with his dad but Ammi is right that David would think there was something really wrong if she just ditched him.

[Smithy]

In the final chapter of the book

rob basically alludes to Adam having an accident in the future :worry:

[Niamh.]

In the final chapter of the book

rob basically alludes to Adam having an accident in the future :worry:

Oh god, that's awful, I wish you didn't tell me that :bawling:

[Niamh.]

On a side note, I loved all Louise's clothes, especially all her jumpers, I wanted them all :laugh:

[Niamh.]

And also

How good was that actor who played Louise, she looked so creepy once she became Rob, didn't she?

[Smithy]

Yeah, she reminded me of Lupita in Us

[Ammi]

On a side note, I loved all Louise's clothes, especially all her jumpers, I wanted them all :laugh:

....ughhhhh, that yellow fuzzy cardigan one that she wore quite near the end, I don’t recall the exact episode...I need that in my life...:lovedup:...

[Ammi]

...I have got a blue one similar, actually...but it’s not YELLOW....yeah, I loved her style as well and such a beautiful lady...:love:...

[Niamh.]

Yeah, she reminded me of Lupita in Us

omg yes, definitely


....ughhhhh, that yellow fuzzy cardigan one that she wore quite near the end, I don’t recall the exact episode...I need that in my life...:lovedup:...

Jumpers and cardies are my favourite thing's in life, comfort is everything :laugh: I especially loved a green jumper she wore

[Ammi]

In the final chapter of the book

rob basically alludes to Adam having an accident in the future :worry:

...I missed that completely...Rob wasn’t just someone of bad character, he was evil...and wanting to escape his past but taking it with him because the bad in his life was himself, s9 he could never move to a better path....the nurse in the clinic was the clue, I guess...she seemed like a well rounded and well thinking person but she warned Adele to stay away from Rob, that there was no good in him...

[Ammi]

omg yes, definitely




Jumpers and cardies are my favourite thing's in life, comfort is everything :laugh: I especially loved a green jumper she wore

...I’ll have to try to find some pics of her outfits, I can’t recall the green one...I sound as obsessive as Rob...:laugh:..maybe he’s inside me now...

[Niamh.]

...I missed that completely...Rob wasn’t just someone of bad character, he was evil...and wanting to escape his past but taking it with him because the bad in his life was himself, s9 he could never move to a better path....the nurse in the clinic was the clue, I guess...she seemed like a well rounded and well thinking person but she warned Adele to stay away from Rob, that there was no good in him...

Yeah and towards the end when Louise rang his sister, she seemed like a normal person, owned her business etc and she said he was a nasty person, Rob had kind of made out she was the horrible one but his words aren't reliable

[Niamh.]

I've just thought of an Arista phrase that could be the tag line for this show

Get down and funky, watch out for them junkies :hehe:

[Ammi]

Yeah and towards the end when Louise rang his sister, she seemed like a normal person, owned her business etc and she said he was a nasty person, Rob had kind of made out she was the horrible one but his words aren't reliable

...I was so sure that it was David from the first episodes but then I did a complete turnaround...because that would have been obvious and I knew that it wouldn’t be obvious..it would be the least obvious twist...I just thought that it would be someone living...:laugh:...which it was, but you know what I mean...I think also that, watching Sucker Punch so recently was influencing my thoughts as well and the control of those girls etc...


...but with Rob, we were mostly looking at the character with sympathy...I might actually have a rewatch quite soon tbh, to look at any clues with a different eye../Behind My Different Eyes...:laugh:..

[Ammi]

I've just thought of an Arista phrase that could be the tag line for this show

Get down and funky, watch out for them junkies :hehe:

...:laugh:...and another forum phrase for Rob...stay in your own lane, punk...

[Niamh.]

...I was so sure that it was David from the first episodes but then I did a complete turnaround...because that would have been obvious and I knew that it wouldn’t be obvious..it would be the least obvious twist...I just thought that it would be someone living...:laugh:...which it was, but you know what I mean...I think also that, watching Sucker Punch so recently was influencing my thoughts as well and the control of those girls etc...


...but with Rob, we were mostly looking at the character with sympathy...I might actually have a rewatch quite soon tbh, to look at any clues with a different eye../Behind My Different Eyes...:laugh:..

Yeah I was a bit disappointed that it turned supernatural tbh, there's no way anyone could have really guessed the twist early on because of that. I was assuming it was a normal suspense thriller type show

[Niamh.]

...:laugh:...and another forum phrase for Rob...stay in your own lane, punk...

:laugh: Stay in your own brain punk

[Smithy]

Yeah I was a bit disappointed that it turned supernatural tbh, there's no way anyone could have really guessed the twist early on because of that. I was assuming it was a normal suspense thriller type show

Yeah I was gonna say that the show wasn’t grounded in reality 100% but didn’t know if that would have given too much away

[Niamh.]

Yeah I was gonna say that the show wasn’t grounded in reality 100% but didn’t know if that would have given too much away

No I'm glad you didn't say that at the start :laugh:

[Niamh.]

I never realised that the actor who played Adele was Bono's daughter

[Josy]

I went into this not knowing a thing about it.

Loved it right up until the stupid twist.

[Niamh.]

I went into this not knowing a thing about it.

Loved it right up until the stupid twist.

Yeah it turned the whole thing in to something you didn't sign up for I thought

[Tom4784]

I watched the first episode, it was... fine, I guess? I'm always put out by shows and books that sell themselves on having some huge twists, twists should be kept a secret, it's not a twist if you know it's coming.

[Niamh.]

I watched the first episode, it was... fine, I guess? I'm always put out by shows and books that sell themselves on having some huge twists, twists should be kept a secret, it's not a twist if you know it's coming.

haha that's what I was saying originally. Tbf in this case you won't be able to see it coming........but that's because it's so stupid

[Vicky.]

So disappointed. This was bloody fantastic til the 5th episode. And the 'twist' :umm2: Ruined it all for me,the ending, and how ****ing ridiculous and stupid it was really. Also the **** she was doing for 'astral projection' is actually how you teach yourself to lucid dream. Bloody works too and thats amazing when you can actually do it like. I do not believe he 'omg my spirit can go float around all night and I can possess people' though, oddly enough

[Lee.]

I absolutely hated this! I was so excited to watch it after I’d read all the hype online, and it was all ok until the end! Just sat with my wtf face on for ages after it’d finished!

And that Scottish accent was ****e too.

[Niamh.]

I absolutely hated this! I was so excited to watch it after I’d read all the hype online, and it was all ok until the end! Just sat with my wtf face on for ages after it’d finished!

And that Scottish accent was ****e too.

Also why did Bono's daughter have an English accent when she's supposed to be Scottish?

[Lee.]

Also why did Bono's daughter have an English accent when she's supposed to be Scottish?

I didn’t get that either!

[Niamh.]

I didn’t get that either!

And she's Irish as well so she deliberately put on an English accent rather than a Scottish one (maybe it's pay back for Gerard Butlers Irish accent in PS I Love You :hehe: )

[Lee.]

And she's Irish as well so she deliberately put on an English accent rather than a Scottish one (maybe it's pay back for Gerard Butlers Irish accent in PS I Love You :hehe: )

We were just talking about that recently! That was the WORST!

I’m trying to think what we watched fairly recently which had the worst Scottish accent ever.. like we couldn’t even understand him!

[Lee.]

I’ve remembered! It was the leader of the Billy Boys in Peaky Blinders!

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[Niamh.]

I’ve remembered! It was the leader of the Billy Boys in Peaky Blinders!

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Oh god and while you're at it Aiden Gillans traveler accent in Peaky Blinders and his accent in Game of Thrones

[Lee.]

Oh god and while you're at it Aiden Gillans traveler accent in Peaky Blinders and his accent in Game of Thrones

:laugh: I can’t remember Ben remember his GoT accent. I do loves him though :love:

[Tom4784]

That was.... A mess.

I found it boring for the most part, but then the random Astral projection **** just made me laugh and everything that happens in the last few episodes was just too ridiculous and it relied on people being dumb for the plot to work, which I hate. The random supernatural **** actually woke me up a bit and made me pay attention but for the most part, it just felt like twists for the sake of twists. Utter dirge.

[hijaxers]

Just watched it in one and its a total :facepalm::facepalm::notimpressed:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

I’m in love with david

[Vicky.]

This was great until the last couple of episodes.

And the twist really ****ing annoyed me. Not even sure why.

Ontop of this, I was convinced it was all to do with lucid dreaming, as the way they 'taught' themselves to do that..is the same way I taught myself to lucid dream :S I don't believe in astral projection tbh, but lucid dreaming is very real, and fairly easy to do and ****ing amazing once you can

[Jessica.]

I just finished it, the whole show made me uncomfortable but I did enjoy it. The ending was unrealistic imo, like David definitely noticed a difference.e

[Jessica.]

Also what was up with that best friend character who knew everything that was going on? Like all of her scenes were so random? (short haired blonde woman)

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

David

[Tom4784]

Also what was up with that best friend character who knew everything that was going on? Like all of her scenes were so random? (short haired blonde woman)

Yeah, she was a weird addition. She wasn't in it enough to justify her inclusion and it always felt out of place when she'd show up.

[Jessica.]

Yeah, she was a weird addition. She wasn't in it enough to justify her inclusion and it always felt out of place when she'd show up.

Yeah and Louise told her absolutely everything, they didn't hang out when the son was in France either, so weird.