Behind Her Eyes

The first four episodes are basically a run-of-the-mill relationship thriller about a love triangle where at least one of the characters is a nutter. The fifth episode makes a weird sidestep into another genre and by the climax in the sixth episode, things are downright batshit crazy. It’s a great shame that on the way to the resolution, the good guys had to behave like morons so things would go the way the creators wanted. But I ended up liking the concept, even though I was pretty confused at first. Paradoxically, the way they show the cards by the end is so awkward that I saw the main twist coming a few minutes earlier than I should. Ideally, it should be more focused, sharper when it comes to the behaviour of the characters, and bolder and weirder also in the first two acts to avoid the viewer falling asleep with the uninteresting romantic plot. Because when after four hours of nett time, we get what we got, it will inevitably feel a little cringe-worthy. If it had been that way, I would probably be thrilled now, but it is what it is, and unfortunately, I’m mostly nonplussed – that said, this is a limited series that I will certainly remember for quite some time. 7/10 (02/17/2021)

A long unsatisfying Harlequin romance in which the greatest entertainment is guessing how many of the three main characters are completely insane and how many are just broken. It is difficult to hint at what quagmires the second half ventures into without giving something away, but it is definitely nothing expected or normal. In foreign reviews, I found a variety of opinions, but the phrase "trash genius" stood out to me the most because it captures everything that was swirling inside me at the end. The courage of the original creator to send the genre in a completely different direction than it seemed to be headed at the beginning, and at the same time the feeling that such a crutch cannot possibly be of use to any serious endeavor. The excitement of inventing even the most twisted theories, contrasted with the final feeling of being high up, only to end up quite low. But for those who think that a "female" mystery inevitably has to evolve into Girl on the Train or Gone Girl, this is a unique wake-up call. (02/26/2021)

POSSIBLE SPOILER!!! Behind Her Eyes starts out as a series with a good stab at a decent thriller, continues as a bland, cheesy mess that often flips in place and nothing happens, and ends as nonsense involving lucid dreaming/astral travel and personality swapping (??????). As demented as that sounds when written that way, it's exactly as dumb as it is in the end. A poorly grasped series pretending to be psychologically dense stuff, but in the end it's terribly shallow and nonsensically stupid. Avoid this and save yourself six hours of your life. (02/22/2021)

If there's anything brilliant about this series, it's definitely the denouement and overall ending. It gave me chills. The acting was very well done, everyone got to me, and from a certain point I had to know how it was going to end. A very original idea definitely worthy of a series (it's probably too complicated for a movie). And this one is definitely not to be missed. 4.5 stars (04/15/2021)