Nick Wall/NETFLIX © 2020 What is astral projection?Īstral projection is defined as, "the ability of a person's spirit to travel to distant places." In Behind Her Eyes, Adele/Rob describes the process of astral projection to Louise: "You can only travel to places you know. For a psychiatrist, David is 0/2 in his ability to get to know a person. Then Rob-as-Louise marries David, because somehow he can’t tell the difference between these two fundamentally different personalities. Louise-as-Adele's last word is "Adam," and it's so heartbreaking, ridiculous, and unfair. Adele/Rob then uses this opportunity to swap souls with Louise, killing Louise’s soul as it’s trapped in Adele’s body, overdosing on heroin in a burning house. She can’t actually do anything while soul-traveling, all she can do is see. Unable to enter the burning house, Louise props herself up against the door and decides to astral project inside to, I don’t know, check on Adele? This makes no sense. Adele sets a fire and shoots up in her bed. Adele lures Louise to her house by implying she’s going to kill herself, and Louise hops in an Uber and just goes. Louise calls Adele and tells her David’s plan to tell the truth about Rob (well, what he thinks is the truth: that Rob overdosed and Adele covered it up by dragging his body into a well). At this point, I’ve made peace with the genre-swap, but I refuse to accept the fact that Louise-our smart, capable, funny, complex, take-no-shit heroine and wonderful, loving single mother to Adam-would be as gullible as she is in the finale. He tells Louise to stay away from Adele because she’s dangerous, and she promises she will. Louise goes to David and tells him she realizes that he’s not the villain she thought he was, that Adele is “not normal,” and that she’s “always there, watching, listening.” David goes to Scotland to tell the police what happened with Rob. Then, in present day, Louise realizes that Adele can astral project because Louise herself learns it, from the book on lucid dreaming that Adele gave Louise to overcome her night terrors. Adele/Rob then dumps Rob’s body into a well in the estate’s forest, and lets David’s watch fall in with the body, to entrap David into keeping their secret so they’ll be stuck with each other forever lest she tell the police that David killed Rob. Then, Rob-as-Adele shoots up Rob’s body with more heroin, causing Rob’s body to overdose with Adele’s soul inside, killing both Rob’s physical body and Adele’s soul.
Rob injects himself with enough heroin so that once Adele’s soul is inside his body, she is immobilized and trapped within his flesh vessel forever. Ten years ago, after actual Adele showed Rob how to astral project, Rob convinced her to try swapping souls. This entire time, the woman we’ve been watching and wondering about-is she a manipulative psychopath or the victim of an abusive husband?-is actually Rob, Adele’s best friend from her time at the rehabilitation facility where she went after her parents were killed in a fire at their country estate.
I’ll do my best to summarize the twist ending in one sentence: Adele is Rob. Take us deep into the world of lucid dreaming and astral projection-I was missing 2011-era Tumblr, anyway. It’s like the show just said, “Rules? What rules? To hell with narrative structure and consistent, honest, world-building! Genre who?” But you know what? Fine. The term “astral projection” isn’t actually spoken until the last fifteen minutes of Episode Five, but once it is-man, all bets are off. What begins as an erotic/crime/ psychological thriller takes a sharp turn into supernatural fantasyland in the second-to-last episode. *Final warning: spoilers for Behind Her Eyes below. For the rest of us, though, let’s talk about the Behind Her Eyes twist ending that is truly, actually, legitimately absurd.
If you’ve read Sarah Pinborough’s novel from which the series is adapted, you already know the twist ending and can get on with your life. Come back here when you’re ready to discuss-or just want something to help you process your feelings about what the hell you just watched.ĭespite standout performances by Simona Brown and Eve Hewson, Behind Her Eyes is basically six hours of waiting for an ending that essentially cheats its way into a shocking twist. So if you want to watch it and see if you can guess the ending before it whacks you in the head like a pile of cartoon bricks, go ahead and do that.
If you haven’t watched the new limited series on Netflix, be warned: I am 100 percent going to spoil it for you in this article. When I watched the last twenty minutes of Behind Her Eyes this weekend, all I could do was smile and shake my head repeatedly.
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