![]() Adele (really Rob) befriends her husband’s lover and slowly teaches her astral projection. UNTIL HE MEETS LOUISE, who also happens to suffer from night terrors. They stay together only because David would rather be married to Adele than go to prison. Rob isn’t convincing as Adele, and the romance between David and Adele fizzles. To keep David close, he makes him complicit in the cover-up of Rob’s (really Adele’s) murder.īut the ruse is hard to keep up. Installed in Adele’s body, Rob is free to be with her fiancé David, whom he's always adored, and enjoy Adele's tremendous wealth. Except it’s not for fun! Rob in Adele’s body kills The Real Adele in Rob’s body with an overdose of heroin and throws his own body into the bottom of a well. Adele teaches Rob this nifty new trick, and eventually he suggests they exchange bodies, just for a sec, just for fun. Astral projection is, of course, the psychic process by which a person suffering from night terrors can separate her soul from her corporeal form to revisit places she’s been while awake. She confesses to Rob that she blames herself because at the time of the fire, she was too busy astral projecting her soul into the atmosphere to smell the smoke. Adele (The Real Adele) meets Rob when she’s briefly institutionalized following the death of her parents in a fire at their gigantic family estate. Also, it was really Louise who died in Adele’s body, because Adele has been dead in Rob’s body THE WHOLE TIME. At the end of the series, Adele is dead and David gets married to Louise, who is really Rob in Louise’s body. When the series starts, the borderline crazy Adele (Eve Hewson) and her psychologist husband David (Tom Bateman) - who together once covered up the death of Adele's friend Rob - move to London, where David almost immediately starts an affair with his assistant Louise (Simona Brown). Let's break it down that wild finale and the lingering questions left in its wake ( spoilers ahead, obviously). With the Netflix adaptation of Behind Her Eyes premiering this week, it’s time for #WTFthatending round two. When the novel debuted in 2017, the hashtag was both an effective marketing strategy and a Twitter shibboleth for readers who had survived the wild and twisty novel only to arrive at an even nuttier, more disturbing ending. If you read Sarah Pinborough’s book Behind Her Eyes, you’ve already lived through #WTFthatending once before.
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