Extremely vague spoilers for Behind her Eyes
Eve Hewson, whom I know as Adele on the wildly popular Netflix series Behind Her Eyes, was on The Tonight Show recently. I had absolutely no idea before watching this interview that she was Bono’s daughter. Eve told Jimmy that she’s been quarantined with her whole family in Dublin and they’re like a mix between The Kardashians and The Osbournes. There were awkward moments and it seemed like Jimmy was sucking up to her because of her dad.
I was most interested in the part where she talked about the show, which I gave up on after the second episode. So many of my friends loved it, and my friend Zakia said the vibe is very much like Melrose Place in its prime during the 90s, completely fun and bonkers. I’m not going to give any major spoilers here, but I’m sure people will in the comments, so just be aware of that before you scroll. Here’s what she said about the show.
On the twists in Behind her Eyes
Everybody went nuts. When we made the show, I was like ‘I don’t know if people will get this. I think it’s cool, I think it’s really weird.’ People just ate it up. Everyone is taking the twist personally too. They feel personally attacked by the twist. I’ve been googling myself nonstop trying to find out all the memes and people’s reactions.She used to smash a couch with a baseball bat to get into character
Without revealing too much, my character gets to some very heightened emotions. There’s lots of rage that I have to go through. I was scared that I wasn’t going to be able to get there. I had this idea that I need a baseball bat and I just want to smash a pillow before I go into a take. Our director [said] ‘I like it, do it.’ Every time I went to go do an intense scene I would just whack that thing. It became this communal experience where if anybody on the crew was having a bad day they’d have a go at that thing.
[From The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon]
I’m not one to hate watch and around the second episode I started hoping that Adele would die. I looked up the spoilers at that point because it was obvious something weird was happening, and it blew my mind! While I’m glad I didn’t invest more time before finding that out, people I know who finished the whole series say it was fun and worth it.
I’m definitely one of the people Eve is referring to who would take it personally. I really dislike when a show sets up a universe and then switches the rules. It doesn’t matter if it’s a supernatural show or a thriller, but when it presents itself as one thing and then abruptly changes I have an issue. (Also see: The OA.) Zakia told me that this show didn’t do that though, it just gradually revealed that bonkers twist. Fair enough!
This show is based on a book of the same name by author Sarah Pinborough. She’s defended the ending, saying that she set it up all along. She said “I don’t mind people who hate the book. I’d rather they hate it than be indifferent. What I don’t like is when people say, ‘She didn’t know how to end this book, she tacked on this ending.’ I’m like, ‘Go back and read it again, do your homework!’”
As for Eve she’s just 29 and she’s also on The Luminaries on Showtime. She got me to hate her character, so she has some talent. We’ll surely see more of her. I also found Simona Brown (Louise) really compelling. Everyone is talking about how bad Tom Bateman’s (David) Scottish accent is too!
photos credit: Netflix
Yes, I totally took the ending personally! It left me so traumatized and angry at the indecency of it! What a terrible terrible person. And what about Adam?
I kept thinking in the end that Adam’s dad needs to get custody ASAP!
@Lanie! Yes! Surely he knows there’s something wrong? Because Adam certainly does. I read somewhere they should do a second season where Adam and his dad expose everything. That would give me the satisfaction/justice I need for Louise.
Yes the ending literally traumatised me. I kept thinking about it for days. I was so sad for her little boy, I just loved their relationship. And he knew straight away something was up, children are very intuitive. I enjoyed the whole thing up until that point. Also I had no idea Eve was Bono’s daughter.
I felt the same way! Just kept thinking of Adam. I lost 2-nights of sleep. The show was a total bait and switch which I think I’m not into as I get older.. lol
I read the book and I can’t bring myself to watch the movie because I hated the ending so much. For me it was mostly about the fact that the antagonist doesn’t get punished and actually succeeds in continuing to achieve the goal. Trying to be vague as possible to not ruin it for anyone.
I trash watched it. Meaning I knew it was trashy but it was such a nice palette cleanser between my normal fare. I thought all three leads were good actors and the twist didnt feel like a twist at all if you were paying attention to the crumbs. It had an atmospheric quality that was compelling and I found myself thinking about the characters during the day and being very eager to watch it over the 3-4 nights it took. It’s worth the watch.
I kept thinking about the show for days and the parts that I missed early on in the series that may have clued me in. I did take the ending personally, still enjoyed the show.
Yes there were little clues all along so I didn’t feel cheated at the end.
I enjoyed the series. I mainly watched for Simona Brown because I liked her in a guest role on “Grantchester” a couple of years ago.
I have been disappointed by the lack of media interviews with and PR for Simona considering she’s a main character (if not THE main character since David & Louise’s love story is part and parcel with the obsession / thriller aspects of the show)
+1 about Simona Brown. She was the star. Absolutely loved her.
She popped up on an account I follow on IG (Vogue? Stylist?) and my first thought on seeing her surname was nepotism something as it wasn’t clear what she did from the post and I carried on scrolling. Good to hear she’s got some talent and is on a talked about show then! I was trying to see if there was a family resemblance as I assumed Bono’s daughter (and I was a BIG U2 fan back in the day).
She is the spitting image of her mom.
I didn’t see the ending coming, but it didn’t feel like a sucker punch. The show entertained me so it did its job.
I hated the chemistry between Louise and David. I was waiting for Louise and Eve to hook up, I thought they had so much more chemistry!
Yeah, I binge watched last week and the ending, and well the less said the better!
His Scottish accent is/was atrocious.
The ending was not gradual enough and it was SO ANNOYING. Completely changed the tone of the show, and not for the better. Her acting was good and I didn’t hate the show at all until the stupid twists in the last two episodes.
She’s also in The Knick and she’s great in The Luminaries. She’s been working for a very long time in big and small things, i’m glad people are taking notice of her more now.
Also, Jimmy is a suck up in general, but he’s had her on the show before and he’s partied with Bono and Eve and her sister Jordan (Who’s in tech and an activist and founded the Action Button) so I don’t think he needs to suck up to her he’s already got the connection.
I also trashed watched it and had to go back and grasp the ending lol. I wasn’t paying much attention at times. I had no idea she was Bono s daughter. She looks like her mum.
I haven’t watched this show so I can’t comment on that (although I am enjoying her in the Luminaries on Starz) but every time I see her I think someone needs to cast her and Emily Blunt as sisters in something because they are dead ringers for each other.
I took the twist personally because I thought I was watching a legitimate suspense thriller. What’s even the point of it all if you can just add in any supernatural twist you fancy to explain it all away?
You’re so right. It turned out to be a bad joke on the viewers. My thought was the author had been pushed towards a publishing date so just scribbled off some crap. Not mad here, but insulted.
I completely agree with both comments. Was also offended by the dumbness of the supernatural twist. What they called that twist was not accurate. Ugh.
The twist was crazy as hel1😮 I Loved It! But I was also traumatized and sad too because poor Adam☹️
My husband quit watching after the first episode and I halfway wish that I had quit also. It was entertaining, but I can’t stand to watch anything where a child is in jeopardy. I found it haunting as I worried about Adam.
What happened to Bono/U2? Did they retire? I haven’t heard about them in years.
Bono had a pretty traumatic bicycle accident a few years back and took a long time to convalesce. They haven’t recorded a new album (yes I am old) since 2017 and probably won’t until the pandemic ends. As far as I know, they are still together and may be recording as they are all largely Dublin-based, but not made any announcements about a new record/tour.
To me, I just stopped liking their music. This is why I feel like they disappeared. Never got past the Pop era.
They’ve toured a lot, plus two albums relatively close together, for them. Nothing super recent. Theirlatest tour,, Experience and Innocence tour went all the way to the end of 2018. Before that, they did a stadium tour in 2017 (and also more shows in 2019) celebrating the Joshua Tree’s 30th anniversary and playing the album in its entirety, plus some other songs. They did the Innocence and Experience tour. That was all of 2015.
But that was a lot of close in time touring for U2. And there were two albums of new music during that time. 2019 would have been finishing up the Australia shows and then some real downtime for the band. 2020 was the pandemic. But I imagine they will begin working on a new album again.
The new vertical screens they used for the I+E tour and their E+I tours had them able to walk into and be part of the visual image. It was created just for them. They were such intimate tours in arenas and all the way out as far as the runway. It gave the feeling of more raw older U2 tours.
They still are one of the best bands live.
I read the book and watched the series. The series was very similar to the book. I didn’t feel conned by the ending because they set it up with little clues throughout. I was shocked by the ending, but after thinking about all the little clues, it made sense.
I loved this series and it had one of the best twist endings I have seen in awhile. When you think about it you see the little clues that were left all along so I didn’t feel cheated. I have been telling my friends to watch and that the first two episodes are a little slow but its worth it. My mom watched and she didn’t get the ending, I had to tell her what happened and she watched again. Then she loved the concept. Bono’s daughter is beautiful and I think we are going to be seeing more and more of her.
I was intrigued at first and then hated it because I was so frustrated. I knew something was off and couldn’t figure it out. I am glad I kept watching! I loved the ending! Once it was revealed all the things that didn’t make sense and I thought were odd made sense to me. It’s a fun ride.
If you look back over the show, other things pop out. Adele trying to get Louise to work out. Well, in the book the Louise character is a little heavier, so maybe that would have made you realize at the end that that was a clue. But Simona Brown was slender, so I never thought there was an ulterior motive specifically for the gym.
There was so much to unpact after the conclusion and looking back over the whole show, and so much to horrifically imagine going into the future after the last scene.
Hell yeah it was personal. SPOILER ALERT! Because you spend the entire show hating on Adele, and then it turns out that poor girl was dead all along and that she was not a sociopathic psycho but that bubbly nice girl in love with David that we got to know only from a few pages of a diary. END OF SPOILER.
As for Eve, she is so beautiful to me. She takes up after her mom. Looks like all Bono kids take after their mom in looks department, which is great. Check our her younger brother, he is in some irish band my algorithm randomly selected for a playlist (so I really do not remember the name) but he looks very similar to Eve. At the same time, while I am closer in age to Eve than Bono it still is a bit weird watching Bono’s child have sex on screen in a movie.
As for Jimmy Fallon. I can not stand him. He is such a suck up and fake, I feel second hand embarrassment for most guests.
I loved the ending. The show got boring for a couple of episodes, picked back up. And the two twists, oh my, became a horror movie. I liked that it was so unexpected and that it wasn’t tied up nicely. And the last scene in the car, I was so shaken by that. I was all twisted after the conclusion for an hour or so thinking about it all. I won’t say anything for anyone who hasn’t watched it.
Eve is a really good actress. I remember reading about her and people stating she’s a good actress. I had seen her in an interview but forgotten it. When I’m watching this show, I kept thinking how beautiful she was. And a couple of episodes in I looked up who the actress was and saw “Eve Hewson,” and realized it was Bono’s daughter. She is built just like her mother and has her mother’s amazing hair, but facially she really is a mix of her parents, mostly her mom, but also a bit of Bono for sure, which was disconcerting seeing a glimpse of Bono’s face in Eve for the rest of the movie.
Simona Brown I believe had the most airtime of anyone, or maybe it just felt like it. She was the lead to me as far as narrative perspective of the show. Although, all three had big parts. And it was fantastic to see a dark-skinned black woman have a lead in the show and carrying a good part of it. The camera absolutely loved her. It’s sad to say usually if a black woman were to even get a bigger role like this in this kind of show it would usually be a light-skinned black woman with straight hair, not natural hair, at least until the last few years where you’re seeing a difference in casting. And so important for a movie is chemistry, and you could really feel the chemistry between Louise, her character, and David, Tom Bateman’s character.
I loved Tom Bateman. I see people ragging on his Scottish accent. Of course, for me I didn’t realize it wasn’t good. I thought he was Scottish. He was handsome and definitely mysterious in the movie, so fit the part.
For this show to work, with three important characters, they really needed to be believable and really work, and all three actors brought it. Also, Eve’s friend in the movie did a fantastic job also.
I met her ages ago when she was dating James Lafferty. Was a hot mess, but who wasn’t in 2011.
I met her ages ago when she was dating James Lafferty. Was a hot mess, but who wasn’t in 2011.
I gave up after 1/2 through episode 3 and went straight to 6. I haven’t read the book but guessed the ending pretty easily.
It also reminded me of a show that was on BBC or BBC- America for me.
Intruders that had a very young Millie Bobby Brown playing a psychopath and she was the best part of the show. But had a lot more lore and rules that went with their plot twist.
I can see a 2nd season for this. And would watch it.
I haaaaaaated it!! While yes, the clues were there, it did still abruptly change genres in my opinion. There were other non-supernatural ways to have achieved the same twist in my opinion. Thankfully I only wasted three hours of my life on this POS and not six or I would be even more p*ssed! I watched the first two parts and had a feeling I wasn’t going to be happy so I went ahead and watched the last episode. I told myself that if it had a good ending, I would go back and fill in the blanks. I did not fill in the blanks.