Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | TV | January 9, 2026
This week’s Netflix mystery-thriller His & Hers, from William Oldroyd, features a terrific lead pairing in Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal. While it’s more entertaining than the usual Harlan Coben fare (with the exception of last week’s better-than-usual Run Away), it ultimately doesn’t hold up as well as those often-silly mysteries. His & Hers is, paradoxically, even more ridiculous, largely because the resolution to its six-episode investigation is undone by an absurd twist that might have been fun had it not rendered almost everything that came before it moot.
The series opens, as these things are wont to do, with a dead body discovered on the hood of a car in the middle of the woods. Detective Jack Harper (Bernthal) is assigned to the case, and it’s immediately clear that he’s hiding something. Anna Andrews, an Atlanta reporter played by Thompson, inserts herself into the investigation and asks him a disquieting question: “How did you know the victim?”
We soon learn that Jack was sleeping with the victim, Rachel Hopkins (Jamie Tisdale). Oh, and Jack and Anna are married. They’ve been estranged since the death of their infant daughter, the circumstances of which remain unclear until the final episode. Anna had effectively taken a sabbatical from her job in Atlanta, but she’s not returned to her small, rural hometown of Dahlonega, Georgia, ostensibly to investigate the murder but also to reclaim her position as lead anchor from her rival, Lexy Jones (Rebecca Rittenhouse). Anna even sleeps with Lexy’s husband, Richard Jones (Pablo Schreiber), because, as the series repeatedly reminds us, she is fueled by anger.
Complicating matters further, Anna was actually in the woods the night Rachel was murdered and witnessed Jack with her shortly before her death. Jack slept with Rachel minutes before she died; his estranged wife saw them minutes before that. Both are suspicious, yet Jack zeroes in on Rachel’s husband, Clyde Duffie (Chris Bauer). It’s initially unclear whether Jack genuinely believes Duffie is the killer or whether he’s simply laying the groundwork to pin the crime on him.
Jack’s partner, Priya (Sunita Mani), is also working the case, though Jack frequently sidelines her by sending her off on pointless leads. Over time, she grows increasingly suspicious of him, and with good reason: Jack is evasive, cagey, and makes more than a few ethically dubious decisions. He’s also living with his sister, Zoe (Marin Ireland), and her daughter. Zoe soon discovers that Jack was having an affair with the victim, but she believes Jack when he insists that he did not kill Rachel.
For the better part of five episodes, the series largely spins its wheels. Jack spends more time covering his tracks than solving the case, while Anna focuses on leveraging the murder for career advancement. Meanwhile, the estranged couple grapple with their shared past and periodically check in on Anna’s elderly mother, Alice (Crystal Fox), who appears to be in the early stages of dementia.
Spoilers for the ending ahead.
Eventually, the pieces do begin to fall into place, largely thanks to Priya, whom Jack has repeatedly tried to sideline. A day after Rachel’s murder, her close friend Helen (Poppy Liu) is also killed. Both bodies are found with similar friendship bracelets lodged in their throats. Priya’s investigation reveals that Rachel and Helen attended a private school with Anna, Zoe, and another classmate, Catherine (Astrid Rotenberry), a plus-sized girl with acne who was relentlessly bullied by the others.
Once it becomes clear that neither Jack nor Anna killed Rachel or Helen, veteran mystery viewers can narrow the culprit down to two possibilities, depending on just how ridiculous the show is willing to be. One option is that the bullied classmate was never mentioned in the present because she dramatically transformed herself - losing weight, changing her appearance - and is now methodically murdering her former tormentors. The other, even more absurd possibility is that Anna’s mother, despite her apparent dementia, is the killer.
Why not both? Sort of.
In the final episode, Jack discovers Zoe dead in her bathtub, leaving only Anna and Catherine alive from that old friend group. That same night, because a hotel is inexplicably booked solid, Anna needs a place to stay, and Richard offers his parents’ isolated cabin in the woods. This turns out to be a very bad idea.
At the cabin, Anna finds photographs that allow her to piece everything together: Lexy Jones, her on-air rival, is actually Catherine. Anna deduces that Catherine/Lexy has been murdering her former classmates, possibly with Richard’s help. When Richard realizes Anna knows too much, she shoots at him, he flees, and Lexy arrives. The two women get into a brutal fight. Lexy picks up Anna’s now-empty gun and aims it at her, but Jack arrives just in time to push Anna out of the way. Priya also shows up and immediately shoots Lexy/Catherine in the head, killing her.
Case closed? Not exactly.
Months later, Jack and Anna have reconciled and are happily raising Zoe’s daughter together. They visit Anna’s mother, Alice, and while Alice plays with the child, Anna discovers a written confession. Alice reveals that she killed Rachel, Helen, and Zoe after learning that, during Anna’s 16th birthday party years earlier, those girls had invited several boys to the woods and watched as Anna was sexually assaulted.
In the letter, Alice explains that she had been babysitting Anna and Jack’s infant when the baby died of crib death, a guilt she has carried ever since. She convinced herself that killing Anna’s former classmates was a way to “set things right”: Rachel for sleeping with Jack, Helen for her role in the past, and Zoe so that Anna and Jack could have a family again. Catherine/Lexy’s death, she admits, was a bonus; Catherine had been cruel to Alice back when Alice worked as a custodian at the private school.
After reading the confession, Anna cries briefly, then looks at her mother and smiles. Alice never had dementia; she faked it to avoid suspicion. Her secret is safe with Anna. The end.
It’s an absurd ending—trashy fun, perhaps—but riddled with plot holes, not least of which is how Anna, Zoe, or Jack failed to recognize Lexy as Catherine. Even with weight loss and a dye job, how do you not recognize one of your supposed best friends? Still, for the sake of its wildly over-the-top finale, I’m personally willing to let those holes slide.
