3/6/2023 0 Comments Behind her eyes cast![]() ![]() One, for example, involves little Adam laughing manically, while Louise runs along a corridor that winds off into infinity. This show’s most vivid colours are reserved for dream sequences, but even these feel like another missed opportunity to lean into lurid melodrama. When someone creeps furtively into the basement, it’s always for legitimate housekeeping reasons and never – alas – to check on a rotting corpse that’s stowed away. For the most part, the Fergusons’ dinner parties go without a hitch, Louise’s sad-single-lady wine glasses remaining disappointingly un-smashed. Still, in a show about smooth sociopaths playing some tedious long game, you can find yourself warming to any character who will cause a scene. So Rob’s fun, but only relatively so, being as he is, essentially, a pound shop Renton from Trainspotting, right down to the shaven head and shrunken tees. Will we discover what became of Rob in a future episode? Fingers crossed he turns up at the practice’s reception one stormy night to spill some dark, Scottish secrets. And Robert Aramayo is charismatic as Rob, Adele’s gossipy, heroin-addicted rehab confidante, who appears only in flashback. Georgie Glen, an actor who has shown her comic flair in sitcoms such as Damned and Sally4Ever, is under-utilised as Louise’s nosy colleague, Sue. Who knew threesomes could be so dull? At least this creates room to shine at the margins, and Tyler Howitt (who played Billy Costa in His Dark Materials) does as Louise’s cute and perceptive – but never precocious – son, Adam. She’s drawn from that noble literary tradition of justifiably crackers first wives, but it seems her attic fire-setting days are long behind her. David and Louise’s illicit trysts lack chemistry and, while Hewson smoulders entertainingly as Adele – with a particularly nice line in quivering micro-expressions captured in closeup – her emotions never properly explode. It’s also not a particularly sexy show, despite sex scenes a plenty. Then there’s the “adult contemporary” soundtrack of Radio 2 playlist favourites, which only manages to deepen the impression that these guys have no distinct personalities. The setting is somewhere vaguely in London, where you can turn the corner from the Fergusons’ posh, tree-lined avenue into Louise’s council estate, but a lack of specificity means it might as well be Parminster.Ĭlass and racial divides are broadly gestured at, but never in such as way as to illuminate our understanding of the characters or their relationships. Given this theme of disordered sleep, you would expect Behind Her Eyes to visually blur the line between wakefulness and dream state, but its sense of place and character is also hazy in other, less artful ways. ![]() Adele quickly forges her own bond with Louise, through their shared history of “night terrors”. ![]() And it’s about to get more so, because he’s also married, and has moved to the area with his beautiful-but-unhinged wife, Adele, in tow (Eve Hewson, last seen starring in The Luminaries). It’s only when Louise arrives at work on Monday that she realises Dr David Ferguson is her new boss, a psychiatrist at the practice where she works as a secretary.Īwkward. His handsome Scottishness is underlined by his drink order: Macallan whisky, retailing at £12 a measure. This six-part series is based on Sarah Pinborough’s 2017 novel and concerns the menacing love triangle that develops when single mum Louise (Simona Brown) gets talking to a handsome Scottish stranger, David (Tom Bateman), during a night out. The latest Netflix release, Behind Her Eyes, looks like a promising attempt to muscle in on ITV’s territory, seduce her husband, steal her baby and turn all her closest friends against her. They are, however, often where British telly excels, by creating appointment sofa-time, even in our on-demand age. Such twisty psychological thrillers set in enviable bourgeois domesticity don’t always bag the Baftas. L ast night I dreamt I went to Parminster again … That’s where Doctor Foster lived with her terrible husband, remember? Before he ran off with Jodie Comer. ![]()
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