Anyway, the only thing I remember from watching that movie was Eggleston’s perpetually befuddled mug as his character was torn between two very different women the role felt dumb and impossible, and that’s sometimes how I feel about David.īack to the show, where we’re treated to another flashback with Lucas Hedges auditioning for Trainspotting - I mean, Rob the smack addict. And Kate Hudson was her superficial, backstab-y BFF who basically dated the guy to lord it over Goodwin’s character. This is totally out-there, but something about David and his predicament remind me of Something Borrowed, an awful 2011 rom-com in which Ginnifer Goodwin played a sweet, forgettable girl who had a crush on this hot, forgettable guy played by Colin Eggleston. I think Bateman (who I don’t think I’ve seen in anything else) is doing a pretty admirable job of fluctuating between sinister/controlling, rakish/charming, and hurt/confused. I also just want to mention one thing here about David and the actor portraying him, Tom Bateman. This setup has become stale already, I fear: Just when Louise is ready to fully join Team David, he acts in an off-putting way and in swoops Adele. Then David comes out of his office and makes a big show out of slamming some file drawers, and around the same time, Louise gets a text from Adele. Not long after, Louise and David do more of their awkward-but-flirty bit at the office, followed by David and Adele doing more of their I-love-him-he-loves-me-not bit on the phone. Is all of this pastoral scenery we keep seeing, the forest and the well, images that represent where Adele goes when she goes through the door in her own dreams?
Then we see present-day Adele sleeping in voiceover, she recites the instructions Rob wrote down for controlling his night terrors (instructions he originally received from her). Is Behind Her Eyes also like living in a fugue state, disassociating from one’s physical and mental environments? I mean … yes? This episode opens with a shot of a countryside estate, which I’m presuming is either a faraway shot of the psych facility or a shot of where David and/or Adele grew up. It’s like a musical fugue because it’s just, like, angst in the round, with everyone taking turns resenting and lusting for and not-trusting one another in equal measures. Or maybe it’s more like a fugue, which I mean in both the musical and psychiatric definitions of the term. When I try to think back on what actually happened during this episode, it’s all swirled up and jumbled, just a bunch of indistinguishable scenes in which something sinister is hinted at.
But also because in a bad therapy session, it’s a struggle to articulate a clear through line from the jumble of everything swirling around in your head.
#ZOMBIE NIGHT TERROR BLACK DOORS PROFESSIONAL#
In part because, yes, a therapist’s weekly session is roughly 50-ish minutes, and yes, David is a psychiatrist, and yes, all three of these main characters are in deep need of some professional help. When I think about the 50-ish minutes I just watched, it reminds me of a frustrating week at therapy.
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