TV Show Review - Behind Her Eyes

Season: Mini Series
Genre: Drama/ Crime/ Thriller
Number of episodes: 6
Year: 2021
Starring: Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman, Robert Aramayo, Tyler Howitt, Georgie Glen, Aaron Anthony

Description: We follow Louise (Simona Brown), a single mom with a son and a part-time ob in a psychiatrist’s office. She begins an affair with her boss (Tom Bateman) and strikes up an unlikely friendship with his wife (Eve Hewson)

Review: “Behind Her Eyes” is a reasonable thriller with interesting characters and a dark plot. And although the resolution of the mystery is partially successful, I still believe it is worth watching.
When I started the series I didn’t know yet what kind of series “Behind Her Eyes” was going to be. A drama? A thriller? What I did know is that it will raise enough question for the viewer to continue watching. The curiosity of what will happen next.
“Behing Her Eyes” is a Netflix adaptation of the book of the same name, written by Sarah Pinborough. Three storylines are followed in this series. First, the lives of newly divorced Louisa and her son Adam. Second, the life of psychiatrist David with his wife Adele. And finally flashbacks of David, Adele and her friend Rob.
Louise gets caught up in the lives of David and Adele. With the former she has an affair and the latter she build’s a friendship. You immediately know something is not right, something that is reinforced by the strange actions of both David and Adele, but also by the flashbacks, in each episode, Louise and the viewer, obtains more and more pieces of the puzzle surrounding David and Adele. This mystery element is by far the strongest point of “Behind Her Eyes”.
However, some of the unwinding of this mystery is moderately done. For the sake of spoilers, I will remain vague about this. There comes a point in the series where everything becomes clear, only the justification for this revelation is absent. How can what happens, happen? The series has a twist, also in genre, which surprised me. And not necessarily in a good way. I’m still not really sure what I think of the ending. It left me unsatisfied in a way.