"Mind you, we’re all still talking about it decades later, so maybe it wasn’t so bad after all." So the poor scribblers had to show Bobby in the shower and come up with the ludicrous idea that the entire season had been another character's dream," he says. "Duffy decided he wanted to leave the series so the writers reluctantly killed him off, only for Duffy to change his mind. Pharoah suggests the gold standard in this kind of bad twist was set by Dallas, with its infamous "it was all a dream" season 9 ending, which saw the character of Bobby Ewing, played by Patrick Duffy, miraculously reappear in a shower scene after dying at the end of the previous series. But a huge, unheralded, clunking great twist that hasn't been planted or set up or earned – the dreaded d eus ex machina – can be deeply unsatisfying." "At the end of Ashes to Ashes, when we revealed that Philip Glenister's Hunt was really a sort of angel who helped dead, broken cops into heaven, there were dozens of clues the audience remembered and which gave the ending closure and satisfaction. "Writing plot twists is really about surprising audiences in a way that makes them think back to the book or film and get the satisfaction of realising the twist was already there waiting to discovered," Pharoah tells BBC Culture. In fact, the publisher of Pinborough's 2017 novel thought the final revelation was such a selling point that it made it a focus of its marketing campaign, devising a Twitter hashtag (#WTFThatEnding) which viewers of the TV adaptation have adopted. Adele and David have a very weird relationship which is eventually explained by an out-of-the-blue double whammy of plot twists which seem to owe as much to the occult thrillers of Dennis Wheatley as to conventional psychological thrillers. She begins an affair with him but also strikes up a friendship with his wife, Adele, who once spent time in a psychiatric facility. In the hit psychological drama, adapted from Sarah Pinborough’s bestseller of the same name, a young single mother, Louise, has a flirtatious evening with a stranger, David, in a London bar, only to find out that he is her new boss and married. Warning: this article contains plot spoilers for Behind Her Eyes and others. With many of us around the world still locked down, TV has been a particular focal point for conversation this year – and few series have inspired more talk than Netflix thriller Behind Her Eyes.
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