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* DreamWeaver: Louise learns to control her dreams with the help of Rob's notebook, and she replaces her nightmares with pleasant dreams.


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* NightmareSequence: Louise has several nightmares, usually about her son, before she learns to control her dreams.

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It stars Simona Brown as secretary and single mum Louise, Eve Hewson as restless housewife and mental patient Adele, and Creator/TomBateman as psychiatrist David.

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It stars Simona Brown Creator/SimonaBrown as secretary and single mum Louise, Eve Hewson Creator/EveHewson as restless housewife and mental patient Adele, and Creator/TomBateman as psychiatrist David.



* BedTrick: [[spoiler: Rob slept with David several times while possessing the body of Adele and Louise]].



* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Adele isn't Adele. Rob stole her body and killed her.]]

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* DeadAllAlong: [[spoiler: Adele in the present isn't Adele. Rob [[KillAndReplace stole her body and killed her.her]].]]



* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: David doesn't seem to enjoy sex with his beautiful wife anymore [[spoiler: because she is actually possessed by the DepravedHomosexual Rob]], but he absolutely enjoys it with Louise (a genuinely kind, good person).



* LivingEmotionalCrutch: David has become this to Adele, even as it is clear that she wants friends outside their relationship.
* LoveTriangle: The relationship between Louise/David/Adele is at the core of the present-day narrative. In the past, there's a triangle between David/Adele/Rob.

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* LivingEmotionalCrutch: David has become this to Adele, Adele ever since he saved her life, even as it is clear that she wants friends outside their relationship.
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: David hasn't enjoyed having sex with Adele for a long time, only doing it at her insistence and even then he isn't able to maintain eye contact with her. [[spoiler:This is because it's [[NotRightInTheBed actually Rob]] who is possessing Adele, with the implication his selfish obsession with having David makes him an unsatisfactory lover, as he doesn't truly care about David wants.]]
* LoveTriangle: The relationship between Louise/David/Adele is at the core of the present-day narrative. In the past, there's there was a triangle between David/Adele/Rob.



* SexualKarma: David doesn't seem to enjoy sex with his beautiful wife anymore [[spoiler: because she is [[NotRightInTheBed actually possessed]] by the DepravedHomosexual Rob]], but he absolutely enjoys it with Louise (a genuinely kind, good person).



* SparedByTheAdaptation: Mariannes cat wasn't as lucky in the book, getting stomped to death by Adele. The same fate as David's cat, who isn't in the show.

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* SparedByTheAdaptation: Mariannes Marianne's cat wasn't as lucky in the book, getting stomped to death by Adele. The same fate as David's cat, who isn't in the show.



* TwistEnding: There are not one but two big twists in the final episode.

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* %%* TwistEnding: There are not one but two big twists in the final episode.episode.
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* ThreesomeSubtext: A lot between Rob, David, and Adele in the past. Adele points out that if it weren't for the IncompatibleOrientation between her and Rob, David should be worried, but even with that, there's a lot of subtext in how intensely Rob says he loves Adele and she's made his life so much better.
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* SparedbytheAdaptation: Mariannes cat wasn't as lucky in the book, getting stomped to death by Adele. The same fate as David's cat, who isn't in the show.

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* SparedbytheAdaptation: SparedByTheAdaptation: Mariannes cat wasn't as lucky in the book, getting stomped to death by Adele. The same fate as David's cat, who isn't in the show.

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* DownfallBySex: [[spoiler:Louise. If David hadn't been attracted to her, and she hadn't entered a sexual relationship with him, she wouldn't have been essentially killed and replaced by Rob.]]



* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: David doesn't seem to enjoy sex with his beautiful wife [[spoiler:who is actually possessed by the DepravedHomosexual Rob]], but he absolutely enjoys it with Louise.

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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: David doesn't seem to enjoy sex with his beautiful wife [[spoiler:who anymore [[spoiler: because she is actually possessed by the DepravedHomosexual Rob]], but he absolutely enjoys it with Louise.Louise (a genuinely kind, good person).
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* GayBestFriend: Rob was Adele's when they were in psychiatric care. [[spoiler:But he's also a DepravedHomosexual and BigBadFriend.]]
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* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler:Rob is this to Adele; they were best friends in the psychiatric hospital, but he stole her body so he could have David to himself.]]

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* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In the past, Adele had long, flowing, wavy hair. In the present, she has a straight chin-length bob to reflect her new personality [[spoiler:and the fact that she isn't Adele anymore.]]



* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: David doesn't seem to enjoy sex with his beautiful wife, but he absolutely enjoys it with Louise.

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* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: David doesn't seem to enjoy sex with his beautiful wife, wife [[spoiler:who is actually possessed by the DepravedHomosexual Rob]], but he absolutely enjoys it with Louise.
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* SparedbytheAdaptation: Mariannes cat wasn't as lucky in the book, getting stomped to death by Adele. The same fate as David's cat, who isn't in the show.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Louise is a pudgy with shaggy blond hair in unfitting second hand-clothes. In the series, she is played by Creator/SimonaBrown.

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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Louise is a pudgy woman with shaggy blond hair in unfitting second hand-clothes. In the series, she is played by Creator/SimonaBrown.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the book, Louise is a pudgy with shaggy blond hair in unfitting second hand-clothes. In the series, she is played by Creator/SimonaBrown.
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It stars Simona Brown as secretary and single mum Louise, Eve Hewson as restless housewife and mental patient Adele, and Tom Bateman as psychiatrist David.

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It stars Simona Brown as secretary and single mum Louise, Eve Hewson as restless housewife and mental patient Adele, and Tom Bateman Creator/TomBateman as psychiatrist David.
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* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Rob uses the body-swapping to do this first to Adele and then Louise.]]
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* TalkingInYourDreams: [[spoiler: In the past, Rob and Adele learn to enter each other's dreams. Louise and Adele practice this as well.]]
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* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler: Rob's evil MO. First, he talks a trusting Adele into a body swap. Years later, he tricks Louise into leaving her body so he can occupy it.]]
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''Behind Her Eyes'' is a British Creator/{{Netflix}} limited series that follows a London secretary as she embarks on an affair with her psychiatrist boss but also develops an unlikely friendship with her boss's mysterious wife Adele. Based on a novel by Sarah Pinborough, the show is primarily a psychological thriller but mixes in [[spoiler: surprise elements of the supernatural in later episodes.]]

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''Behind Her Eyes'' is a British Creator/{{Netflix}} limited series that follows a London secretary as she embarks on an affair with her psychiatrist boss but also develops an unlikely friendship with her boss's mysterious wife Adele. Based on a novel by Sarah Pinborough, the show is primarily a psychological thriller but mixes in [[spoiler: surprise elements of the supernatural in other genres later episodes.]]
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* RaceLift: Louise's race is not specified in the novel, but she's described as blond and readers assumed she was white. In a case of DiversifyingACast, she's Black in the series, but her race plays little to no part in the story.

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* RaceLift: Louise's race is not specified in the novel, but she's described as blond and readers assumed she was white. In a case of DiversifyingACast, RaceLift/DiversifyingACast, she's Black in the series, but her race plays little to no part in the story.
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* RaceLift: Louise's race is not specified in the novel, but she's described as blond and readers assumed she was white. In a case of DiversifyingTheCast, she's Black in the series, but her race plays little to no part in the story.

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* RaceLift: Louise's race is not specified in the novel, but she's described as blond and readers assumed she was white. In a case of DiversifyingTheCast, DiversifyingACast, she's Black in the series, but her race plays little to no part in the story.
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* RaceLift: Louise's race is not specified in the novel, but she's described as blond and readers assumed she was white. She's Black in the series, but her race plays little to no part in the story.

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* RaceLift: Louise's race is not specified in the novel, but she's described as blond and readers assumed she was white. She's In a case of DiversifyingTheCast, she's Black in the series, but her race plays little to no part in the story.

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