![]() ![]() The slow-drip reveal – an episode a week, just like the old days – led to many a manic theory about who might have killed Hugh Grant’s mistress yet the final twist was that well, there wasn’t a twist at all, as it was Hugh Grant all along. Its arrival comes just months after HBO’s monster hit The Undoing, another airport thriller turned polished miniseries, a show that became the network’s biggest of the year, yet one that left many of its viewers feeling a little undone by the finale. Vulture’s Kathryn VanArendonk referred to the ending as “a big, disorienting, trollish wallop”, Variety’s Caroline Framke eschewed a traditional review just to discuss the “deeply silly” finale and a quick scan of Twitter turns up a mixture of exclamation marks and gifs of dogs looking surprised, a buzz of disbelief that’s quickly fired the show to the heights of Netflix’s top 10. It’s somehow wilder than I’m making it sound and while I’m sure in time, more considered thinkpieces will emerge on what the show has to say about queerness, race, gender, class and performance, for now everyone is too busy recovering from the whiplash of it all. It turns out that one of the three characters has actually been an entirely different person the whole time, a wolf in designer clothing, a gay man in the body of his female friend who then leaps into the body of her love rival, ending on a deliciously dour final note. It’s hard to fully explain it to the uninitiated without breathlessly ranting and pointing at a cork board (and for those yet to see, I recommend actually watching it first), but what seems like an ITV drama-adjacent love triangle ultimately mutates into a supernatural head-scratcher about lucid dreaming, astral projection and body swapping. ![]() The show, based on the book by Sarah Pinborough, ends with a series of escalating twists that culminates with one of the most remarkably nutty shock reveals in recent memory. But by the time the sixth episode wraps and we’ve taken a few minutes (and an extra glass of wine) to fully process the what-the-hell lunacy of what’s just happened, it becomes clear that we’ve been fooled both in regards to our expectations of the plot at hand but also the genre at large.
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