Behind Her Eyes

Netflix’s new nail-biter of a miniseries, is thematically chaotic, and its characters are messy, but its ending has an effect like breaking the seal of a ketchup bottle—a startling, satisfying pop. ... “Behind Her Eyes” manages to be both over the top and efficient. It’s the kind of show that rewards a rewatch, if one is able to stomach it. ... Part of the fun for the viewer, too, lies in just letting go and seeing where the series’ dizzying hairpin turns will take you.

“Behind Her Eyes” is a fantastically entertaining magic trick of a TV show, so confident in its incongruous genre mashup that you won’t be able to look away. You might love the exceptionally audacious ending or you might hate it, but you’ll certainly talk about it either way.

I can’t help but feel it would be much more enticing were it released on a weekly basis. As a binge watch, Behind Her Eyes is overly drawn out with not enough drama to make up for the rather dull storyline.

Unfortunately the pacing here is too slow and many may abandon the train before it gets where it’s going. “Behind Her Eyes” is the perfect example of a six-part series that should have been four. Its stretch marks are unseemly. Less can be more.

Some of Behind Your Eyes makes a bit more sense once you get to its ridiculous conclusion, but it largely takes meaning away from what came before rather than adding new depth and excitement.

Its first episodes are oddly hollow. ... It’s not particularly invested in who Louise or David are, and it’s not all that interested in Rob either. ... Seeing the end does help explain the shallowness and heady ungrounded slickness of the previous five episodes. The empty characterization isn’t egregious, but it seems like an apparatus that’s been built around some hidden central engine the show doesn’t want to reveal.

In its first few episodes, “Behind Her Eyes” is an engaging enough psychosexual thriller about a trio of bored people trying, as bored people often do, to make their lives more interesting by making their lives a bit sexier. ... Slowly, surely, and then very suddenly, “Behind Your Eyes” goes from a taut thriller to the realm of the bizarre and downright fantastical. ... “Behind Her Eyes” is just too ridiculous to take even half as seriously as the show takes itself.

To my surprise a greatly interesting mini-series based on a book. As the mystery becomes bigger and bigger, the truth starts to dawn on you. And oh my, it is brutal! Excellent series, i give it an 8/10. Have to note though, the ending is rather sudden and rushed. Things that need more explanation are thrown to the wind.

(espñaol / english) No todo es lo que parece Extracto Detrás de sus ojos (de los ojos de ella, en su título en inglés) es otro thriller sobre un triángulo amoroso perverso, con algunas situaciones algo forzadas y que apuesta a la introducción de un elemento nuevo (que se va anunciando sutilmente) para resignificarse. Filmada con fría y elegante parsimonia, estamos de nuevo ante otra serie que luce estirada y que habría ganado en contundencia si hubiese sido planteada como una película y donde se destaca la actuación de la encantadora Simona Brown. Reseña Esta miniserie británica es un thriller que nos relata la historia de un triángulo en el presente y de otro en el pasado. En el presente, el constituido por un psiquiatra, David (Tom Bateman), su esposa Adele (Eve Hewson) y la secretaria del primero, Louise (una madre divorciada con un niño pequeño, a cargo de Simona Brown) exhibe ciertas peculiaridades, sobre todo por el rol y las intenciones de Adele, envueltos en el misterio. Inicialmente, Detrás de sus ojos parece uno de esos thrillers sobre triángulos perversos y psicopatológicos donde todos mienten, algunos se ubican en lugares moralmente incómodos y ciertas motivaciones son un misterio a revelar. Y básicamente lo es, sólo que le agrega una vuelta de tuerca que se va primero revelando sutilmente y luego con claridad. La serie apuesta a ese giro (agregándole capas al thriller), a la sorpresa que resignifica el conjunto (ver zona semispoiler al final) y al manejo del punto de vista. Se desarrolla en dos tiempos diferentes separados por diez años (uno mayormente transcurre durante una internación de Adele y el otro en el presente). Está filmada elegantemente, pero con cierta fría parsimonia, con algunas idas y vueltas que sirven para estirarla y cuando muestra sus cartas el planteo y su exteriorización pueden resultar desde interesantes hasta ingenuos. Detrás de sus ojos habría ganado en contundencia si hubiese sido filmada como una película para no detenerse tanto en una dinámica inicial que se torna repetitiva. En cuanto a las actuaciones se destaca la de Simona Brown, aunque no podamos entender del todo algunas de las decisiones de su Louise, que se ven un tanto forzadas. SEMISPOILER Español En cuanto a la vuelta de tuerca, la serie primero sugiere y luego se introduce francamente en el género fantástico, resuelto estéticamente con sobriedad y con un planteo que puede resultar naif. QUALIFICATION Not everything is what it seems Abstract Behind her eyes (from her eyes, in its English title) is another thriller about a perverse love triangle, with some somewhat forced situations and that bets on the introduction of a new element (which is subtly announced) to resignify itself . Filmed with cold and elegant parsimony, we are again before a series that looks stretched and that would have gained in force if it had been raised as a film and where the performance of the charming Simona Brown stands out. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………… .. Review This British miniseries is a thriller that tells the story of a triangle in the present and another in the past. At present, the one made up of a psychiatrist, David (Tom Bateman), his wife Adele (Eve Hewson) and the former's secretary, Louise (a divorced mother with a small child, led by Simona Brown) exhibits certain peculiarities, on all for the role and intentions of Adele, shrouded in mystery. Initially, Behind Her Eyes looks like one of those psychopathological perverse triangle thrillers where everyone lies, some are set in morally uncomfortable places and certain motivations are a mystery to reveal. And basically it is, it just adds a twist that is first subtly revealed and then clearly. The series bets on that turn (adding layers to the thriller), on the surprise that redefines the whole (see semispoiler area at the end) and on the management of the point of view. It develops in two different times separated by ten years (one mostly takes place during Adele's hospitalization and the other in the present). It is filmed elegantly but with a certain cold parsimony, with some twists and turns that serve to stretch it and when she shows her letters the approach and its exteriorization can be from interesting to naive. Behind Her Eyes it would have gained in force if it had been filmed as a movie so as not to stop so much in an initial dynamic that becomes repetitive. As for the performances, that of Simona Brown stands out, although we cannot fully understand some of the decisions of her Louise, which are somewhat forced.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This show had so much potential going up to the last episode. The acting is great and love the twists (except for the ending). Would not recommend at all.

Atrocious. For 2 episodes it managed to maintain the mystery. By the 3rd episode I had guessed the twist and said "If I'm right and this is going on this is the biggest piece of s***" And I was right. 99% of these Netflix produced shows are an assault on my intelligence. This show in particular is: dumb, disgusting, abhorrent, juvenile, predictable, ridiculous, boring, stupid, silly. We f***ing hated it, and massively regret it and was a massive waste of f***ing time.