(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

Halfway through the riveting new Netflix cat-and-mouse thriller, The Beast in Me, there is definitive proof that the main suspect, Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys), is guilty of murder. It is a shocking reveal, but not the shocking reveal, as the person we witness Nile bludgeoning to death is not his missing wife. The only conclusion so far is that Nile is capable of the kind of crime the tabloid press has accused him of committing.

The husband is always the killer, right? This assumption is one that author Aggie Wiggs (Claire Danes) makes when she first meets controversial real estate developer Nile. The series, created by Gabe Rotter, plays with our perceptions and snap judgments, as there is zero physical evidence pointing toward Nile as suspect.

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