“The Beast in Me” (TV Mini Series 2025) is one of those umpteen Netflix thrillers pivoted around a duo caught in murderous spite. The tension in their friction and disagreements generates a frisson of volatility. Would someone end up dead by the end of it all? Who will upstage the other? Would they come to a reconciliation? Are one’s suspicions about the other unfounded? There’s chafing, but it’s not necessarily towed into unpredictability, or any simmering undercurrent.
This rupture provides dramatic unrest, but the show is too busy in curating a certain elevated aesthetic to duly invest characters with a particular shading of emotional dimension and heft. A lot seems to happen over the course of the show, but nothing ever gets our attention or demands consideration.
Created by Gabe Rotter, “The Beast In Me” tries to gather intrigue, but a lot of it is misspent on the delineations of the killer. It struggles to land on the vectors with much conviction or bite, wavering far away from the conflicts and confrontations. There’s evasion, which impedes the show from being effectively bitter or resolutely forceful. It weakens its clenching hold, turning characters into vague, broad sketches. There are no bristling specificities; the show collapses the characters into narrow embodiments. It’s too ponderous to justify or sharpen its pace and tension. Where are the stakes? The show tries to set a few things, but never escalates or establishes them into proper perspective. Characters’ orchestrations taper out before they can hit somewhere primal, intense, and sobering.
The show reorients itself to suit Claire Danes, letting her flex her dramatic chops. Danes never let go. She’s fierce and biting, but the show tends to languish in circles, falling through right when it seems to crack the surface. There’s an incompatibility between the lurid interest in the subject and the pointless luxurious treatment bestowed by the makers.
The Beast in Me (TV Mini Series 2025) Recap:
The show starts with Agatha Wiggs (Claire Danes), a Pulitzer-winning writer who’s now hit a creative slump. She has been struggling to write anything and can barely scrape through the monotony of a routine filled with sterile disappointment and frustration. She’s two years late on her deadline for her new book. Suddenly, she finds a dog scratching at the door and discovers a new neighbour. Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), an influential honcho, has moved in. He has been shrouded in rumours over the killing of his wife, Madison. The courts had declared it a suicide, but the suspicions have remained as sturdy as ever.
A few years ago, Aggie’s son, Cooper, was killed in a car accident when it rammed by a drunk driver. She had claimed that the other driver, Teddy, was intoxicated, but the blame was arrogated to her. Nile proposes she could write about him, instead of labouring any further on a stalled project. He also sympathises with her, insisting Teddy should be held accountable.
Why does Agatha suspect Nile?
The next day, Teddy’s ex-wife calls her, anguished. He has disappeared; his car was found on the beach. He is thought to have taken his life by drowning. Teddy’s mother insists he wasn’t glum, that he had solid plans. Nile assures Aggie that she need not worry about Teddy any longer, which causes concern in her. He tells her she should take comfort in justice being doled out. When Aggie pitches the book on Nile to her editor, there’s immediate interest. After all, there has been immense public fascination with his case.
Nile reiterates his innocence to Aggie, but she underlines that the book could be an attempt for him to reinstate his narrative, put forth his side of the story. A parallel track about special agents Abbott and Erika unfurls, with her secretly disclosing information to Nile’s bodyguard. This is his uncle, Rick, who reports to his brother, Martin. It has been Martin who raised the family through difficult times, as well as after the death of Nile’s mother during childbirth.
Nile discovers Agatha has been in contact with the FBI. She insists she has been digging up, going around, and talking to everyone solely for the purposes of the planned book. Abbott tries to sneak and prise out data from Nile’s smartwatch, but he’s attacked.
What leads Abbott to his death?
The data shows a connection to Teddy, but the location doesn’t come up. Things have been frosty between Nile and his wife, Nina. The fact that Nina is showing Shelley’s paintings at the exhibition generates a tussle on all sides. One accuses the other of compromising, taking the easy route out, while not confronting the urgent and necessary. Nile and his father, Martin, try to keep their project going. Even Madison’s parents tell Aggie it was she who was bipolar, that Nile cannot be incriminated. When Abbott clashes with Nile, attesting to the evidence he has uncovered, an exasperated, furious Nile clobbers him to death and lands at Aggie’s door, totally blasé. Talking to him, Aggie opens up about her childhood trauma. Later, Nile buries his tracks that can tie him to Abbott.
Madison’s brother, Christopher, gets in touch with Aggie, explaining how her family has supported Nile financially and cannot afford to go against him. Christopher reiterates that Madison wasn’t mentally rocky, contrary to her parents’ claims. Aggie discovers the suicide letter pinned to her death dates two years earlier.
Once Abbie shows what she has uncovered to Erika, the latter storms to the FBI offices. Aggie walks into Cooper’s room and finds Teddy’s dead body. She also sees that her manuscript has been tinkered with by Nile. Gradually, events from around Madison’s disappearance roll in. Exhausted with the oppressive Nile, Madison had tipped off Abbott about a fund source Nile carefully guarded. Nile is watchful and controlling. He accuses Nina of being the mole, which is when she reveals that Madison is the one. He strangles Madison to death. Martin insists on covering up Madison’s murder, unlike Rick, who professes that Nick confess to the cops all that he did.
The Beast in Me (TV Mini Series 2025) Ending Explained:
Does Nile get away with the murders?
Nile has obviously set up Aggie as the perpetrator, the criminal. It has been his grand scheme all along. Her laptop has been filled with hours of incriminating footage associated with Teddy. Before Breton can get the suicide note of Madison chucked as evidence, armed men are barging into her house. Rick assures Martin that Aggie has been apprehended for the murder of Teddy. A flashback reveals it was Aggie’s momentary distraction that had caused the accident, which killed her son.
At Nina’s gallery, Aggie turns herself in to the cops. She insists, though, that she didn’t kill Teddy. Later, Nina confronts Nile. She beseeches him to share honestly, which is when he comes clean about the murders of Madison and Teddy. The couple reconciles in a moment of candour. Nina discloses the recording of his confession the next day at a press conference. Nile is arrested. Years dart by, and Aggie has finished the book. Nile dies in prison, killed by an inmate. Nina wonders how her child will turn out. The show closes on a melancholic note, heavy with the weight of trauma and sorrow and spent rage.
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