"But the genre's workhorses, writers like Alice Feeney, author of the novel on which Netflix's new limited series His & Hers is based, have produced shelves and shelves of these potboilers, books jam-packed with cheating spouses, secret identities, dark pasts, gruesome murders, and, above all, plot twist upon plot twist upon plot twist-all of it ideal for a weekend-long binge during the dark, sleepy days of midwinter."
"His & Hers is absurd trash, but absurd trash has its place, and more often than not that place is telling its audience that people who seem to have great lives are actually psychos or tormented by terrible secrets that will inevitably come out in a bloodbath. In His & Hers, the seeming paragon is Anna Harper (Tessa Thompson), a news anchor for a TV station in Atlanta. She's gorgeous and wears smashing clothes, but from the very start of the series, Anna is struggling."
Streaming services have mined domestic thrillers for glossy adaptations that spotlight cheating spouses, secret identities, dark pasts, gruesome murders and repeated plot twists designed for binge viewing. The Netflix limited series His & Hers epitomizes that approach: a stylish, sensational show that leans into absurdity while portraying ostensibly successful people as haunted or dangerous. The central figure, Anna Harper, is a celebrated Atlanta news anchor returning after the death of her child and offering to report from her small hometown of Dahlonega on a young woman's murder. The series builds a pervasive unreality through unexplained absences and narrative gaps.
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