The Difference & Similarities Between the Show & Book: “Behind Her Eyes”
3 min readMar 3, 2021
Welcome to another Differences and Similarities Blog. This is my third comparison. I started with “You” by Caroline Kepnes, then “The Outsider” by Stephen King. When I read Behind Her Eyes, I was shaken but when I heard it was going to be a show on Netflix I was ecstatic. So, to tell you the least, I loved the show as much as the book which is surprising because usually your imagination is always better than someone else’s. Let’s get into it.
Main Characters
Adele
David
Louise
Rob
Similarities
- The same characters as the book are in the show
- Same environment/setting
- Same plot twist
Watch the Trailer
Differences
- The book goes chapter by chapter.
- 1 chapter Louise
- 1 chapter Adele
- By the book being constructed this way, you know some of the twists of the story right away
- Such as Adele spying on her husband
- Adele knowing about Louise and you knowing that she knows. This gave the book that spice, knowing that Adele was bad from the beginning.
- When Adele meets Louise:
- Adele is beautiful but the times she shows up to the gym with bruises on her body making Louise think that David was abusing her (before the black eye)
- Adele starts losing a lot of weight she looks like a skeleton
- The is no heroin involved in the book. The ending is different is because she wasn’t used to be so skinny to get out of the burning house.
- Louise’s friend nor the other receptionist does not exist in the books.
- The other woman that Adele spied on the show does not exist in the book
I don’t want to spoil the show nor the book so I am staying vague on some of the details. But besides all, these are the differences, the show was pretty on point which I appreciate.
Originally published at http://rominas.life on March 3, 2021.
