Behind Her Eyes is TV with an identity crisis

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Rob, who is a gay white man, body swaps with Adele, a white woman, before, in the last episode, finally body-swapping with protagonist Louise, a Black woman, so he can be with David, a man. open image in gallery Simona Brown as Louise in ‘Behind Her Eyes’ Other critics have argued that there are racial undertones to Rob using Louise’s body as his final vessel. Rob’s astral hijacking of a Black woman’s body is certainly comparable to the Jordan Peele horror film Get Out, which is centred around the premise of white people trying to gain eternal life by transplanting their brains into the bodies of Black people. The fact that, firstly, the only gay character in the show happens to be a cis male predator who assumes the identity of a woman, and secondly, that the Black protagonist’s body is used as a means to an end, simply reeks of lazy writing that is overly reliant on old TV tropes.