THIS FINALE HAD TWO TWISTS — AND THE SECOND ONE CHANGED EVERYTHING 😳🔥
Viewers were this close to calling the His & Hers finale perfect… until the last reveal hit. The first twist landed hard, smart, and emotional — the kind people were praising in real time. Then came twist number two, and suddenly timelines, motives, and logic started falling apart.
Now fans are split:
Was it a bold move — or the moment the show overplayed its hand?
The comments are on fire with breakdowns, rewatches, and “wait… that makes no sense” threads.
👇 Read what everyone’s arguing about below.
The ‘His & Hers’ Finale’s Second Twist Ruined the Perfectly Good First One
[This story contains spoilers from the finale of His & Hers.]
Right about now, a bunch of His & Hers viewers are asking themselves, “What did I just watch?” Some of that is being blurted with excitement, probably, and some with more than a tinge of regret. Confusion is the appropriate response.
His & Hers, a psychological thriller series adapted by William Oldroyd (Lady Macbeth), is the newest No. 1 Netflix series, racking up nearly 20 million views in just its first four days, per the streamer. The whodunnit is designed to keep you guessing across its five episodes — just when you think you know who the Dahlonega, GA, serial killer is, His & Hers hits you with a plot twist. The series finale had one too many of those.
Based on the novel by Alice Feeney, His & Hers follows Anna Andrews (Tessa Thompson) and Jack Harper (Jon Bernthal), an estranged married couple investigating the same small town murders from their separate professional POVs: she’s a reporter, he’s a detective. Both have a personal attachment to the heinous crimes: Jack was sleeping with the first victim, who was Anna’s high school friend.
One by one, Anna’s old crew is being offed in a highly violent — and highly personal — fashion. Viewers are consistently pointed to Anna or Jack as the culprit, but like a bad magic trick, the misdirection is pretty noticeable. The real His & Hers killer was always going to come from lower down the call sheet. It just didn’t need to go… this low.
His & Hers exists in a version of the greater Atlanta metropolitan area that is apparently populated by as many coincidences as I-285 has cars. These chance happenings range from silly to impossible, which is not really the best foundation for an engaging mystery. In the His & Hers finale, we learn that Lexy Jones (Rebecca Rittenhouse), the news anchor who replaced Anna on the job, is really the reinvented adult version of Anna’s old high school friend Catherine Kelly (Astrid Rotenberry). Anna just never noticed, I guess.
To be fair to the Anna character, Lexy looks very different than Catherine. After (inadvertently, Rittenhouse tells The Hollywood Reporter) causing her sister Andrea’s (Savanna Gann) death as a teen, Catherine assumes an entirely new personality. She completely changes her look, including major weight loss, and her name (to Lexy). It is fate, I suppose, that both Lexy and Anna pursue broadcast journalism and both end up at the same station, vying for the same job. They also share a dude: Lexy marries cameraman Richard (Pablo Schreiber), who ends up having an affair with Anna.
Though Lexy has secretly moved on from Catherine, trauma doesn’t quite work that way. We see via flashbacks to high school (where each character is played by a younger actress) that the other girls, the ones who would be brutally murdered a few decades later, had set Catherine up to be sexually assaulted in the woods. They watched and laughed as the assault took place. It’s a good motive for Catherine to go off and kill a bunch of bitches, and “Lexy Jones” was a functional-enough alter ego to carry us through — The End, right?
Not quite — though it should have been.
In his review, THR‘s lead TV critic Daniel Fienberg called the His & Hers finale “inept,” and wrote that one of its twists is “stupid and obvious,” and the other “merely stupid.” In that context, the Lexy-is-Catherine twist is the “merely stupid” one.
Lexy didn’t kill anyone — well, besides her sister, and Catherine, symbolically — not that she ever got to plead her case. Through a series of almost comical misunderstandings, Lexy is shot and killed by Jack’s cop partner Priya (Sunita Mani), who suspected him to be the killer. With her true identity revealed, a bullet through her forehead, and a husband who I guess doth protest much, Atlanta celebrity Lexy Jones was just accepted as the Dahlonega serial killer. It’s an open and shut case that just won’t shut.
His & Hers rejoins Jack and a very pregnant Anna one year later. With Jack’s niece in their custody (thank God — her mom, one of the murder victims/former mean girls, was a cartoonish alcoholic), a baby on the way and Anna’s mom Miss Alice (Crystal Fox) looking spry, it’s a happy ending for the him & her of His & Hers.
There’s just one problem — it was not the end. Here comes the “stupid and obvious” twist.
In an extended cut of the troubling flashback in the woods, we see that Catherine gets away from her assailants — but Anna does not. The incident did lead to these killings, but not by the hands of whom we were meant to think mere minutes earlier. It was Anna, right? Still wrong. Anna’s mom Alice was the real killer, enacting revenge on the “friends” who allowed her daughter to be raped right in front of them, on her 16th birthday no less. Oh, and she somehow knew all of this would revive Anna’s on-camera career, her nonexistent marriage to Jack and their own mother-daughter relationship.
Yes, Alice, the old, frail woman the series positions as suffering from Alzheimers or dementia was the Dahlonega serial killer. It turns out, Alice is as sharp as a tack! (And as a former cleaning woman, has a skeleton key to all of Dahlonega, or something like that.)
Surprise! Except, the only real surprise here is that His & Hers moves on from an interesting if not plausible twist to a highly predictable (yet still not especially plausible) one. Alice was kind of only in the show to be an *unlikely* killer. Her diminishing mental acuity as a storyline served exactly no other role beyond completely eliminating her as a potential suspect — Alice is Keyser Söze with a cognitive cover story, not a physical one.
Jack and Anna are a nuclear family of four before His & Hers finally reveals the true truth. Alice confesses to the crimes in a letter left for Anna explaining that she, not Lexy/Catherine, is the real killer. But like, Alice isn’t dead — she’s just out on the porch with Jack and the grandkids. Hey Daniel, can we add “thirsty” to “stupid and obvious”?
