The 1990 film’s conclusion was already wild. Jake Gyllenhaal’s 2024 series manages to outdo it.
would opt to change the story’s ending, fingering another killer. And so it did—but not before Kelley faked out audiences familiar with the novel and with Alan Pakula’s 1990 film adaptation, by echoing dialogue from the film. In this scene, disgraced prosecutor Rusty Sabich confronts his wife, Barbara , with his belief that she killed his lover, Carolyn Polhemus .
“I actually knew from the beginning, and then I didn’t know,” Rusty tells Barbara in the series’ climactic confrontation in the family garage. “And then I knew for sure.” Gyllenhaal’s Rusty is a less clever and self-possessed man than the film adaptation’s, played by Harrison Ford, from his hubristic belief that he could cover up his affair with Carolyn to his inability to control the violent temper that leads him to beat up Brian Ratzer , the lowlife he claims throughout is his favored suspect.
The Rusty Sabich of the 1990 movie learns in the end that his fate has been driven by two ruthless women. Greta Scacchi’s Carolyn, with whom Rusty is passionately obsessed, dumped him as soon as she realized he had no intention of seeking his boss’s job and took up with his boss instead. She was also sleeping with the very same judge trying Rusty’s case.
The series concludes with a montage of all the characters going on with their lives and an aerial shot of the Sabiches’ suburb while the old Cindy Walker song “You Don’t Know Me” plays. We don’t know what secrets and crimes lurk behind the tranquil façade of upper-middle-class American life, is the obvious message. And sure—I’ll give them that: We don’t know what people will do to hold on to the good things they’ve got.
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