While Netflix has a lot of great book adaptations to its name, one of the streaming service’s most recent psychological thrillers is among its best ever page-to-screen adaptations. Netflix has plenty of great original psychological thrillers, like March 2026’s blackly funny, unpredictable Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen.
That said, the streaming service has also relied on adapting a lot of bestselling thriller novels to come up with new entries into the genre, and this approach often pays off. Netflix’s five-season thriller masterpiece You was based on the book series of the same name by author Caroline Kepnes, and their January 2206 hit His & Hers was also an adaptation.
His And Hers Is One Of Netflix’s Best Book Adaptations
Based on the 2020 novel His & Hers by Alice Feeney, the show is a dark murder mystery set in small-town Georgia. The series follows Tessa Thompson’s troubled reporter Alice as she returns to her hometown to investigate a series of gruesome killings. Not only are the victims her childhood friends, but Jon Bernthal’s taciturn local cop, Jack Harper, is her ex-husband.
While Alice struggles to separate her dark past from her current investigation, Jack questions whether his estranged ex-wife could somehow be involved in the killings. While the twisty story of His & Hers might sound predictable, Feeney’s inventive, original novel never takes its Southern Gothic plot in the direction viewers are expecting.
It is fun to watch Alice’s noxious friends get picked off one by one, especially when His & Hers reveals that their past misdeeds may well justify their brutal ends. However, Feeney’s fleet-footed plotting ensures that even the savviest mystery fan will have a hard time working out the culprit before the credits roll.
There Are More Alice Feeney Adaptations On The Way
With a brilliant, brutal twist ending that changes everything, His & Hers manages to pull double duty as both an affecting character drama and a thrilling, deeply creepy murder mystery. Where Netflix’s equally great earlier adaptation, The Hunting Wives, went for a far campier, more playful tone, His & Hers is unexpectedly affecting amid all the gore.
Luckily, viewers who enjoyed this psychological thriller adaptation won’t have to wait long to see more from Feeney and Netflix. Although His & Hers told a standalone story that won’t spawn a second season, The Crown executive producer Suzanne Mackie snapped up the rights to Feeney’s 2021 bestseller Rock, Paper, Scissors years ago.
Netflix’s adaptation of Rock, Paper, Scissors was announced before the book was even released back in 2021, so the success of His & Hers is likely to revive interest in the project. As such, fans of Netflix’s book adaptations won’t have to wait long to see a follow-up to the acclaimed His & Hers.
- Release Date
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2026 – 2026-00-00
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Netflix
- Directors
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Anja Marquardt
