The Beast in Me (2025) TRAILER REVIEW: Claire Danes. Matthew Rhys. Brittany Snow.

I’m excited for this one. It’s a true crime thriller made by the team who made HOMELAND.

The trailer begins with an evening aerial shot of a large mansion. Inside, you see Nile (Matthew Rhys) with a stern face, “Why are you here?”

Aggie replied (Claire Danes), “Did you kill her?”

“What do you think?” Nile asked.

I love that. It immediately planted the main question of the series.

Did Nile kill her?

It cuts to daytime. Aggie is walking her dog in the neighborhood. You hear her voiceover. “Nile Jarvis moved in down the street from me. Maybe my next book should be about him.”

It cuts to a magazine article showing the author profile of Aggie Wiggs. I think she framed the article. As a writer, there are hundreds of websites where you can publish articles. But maybe it ‘hits different’, as the kids say, if your article gets printed in a magazine.

Also, imagine this, an O.J. Simpson — type of infamous person moved into your neighborhood. You’d be tempted to write a book too.

It cuts to Aggie working on her MacBook. She held a newspaper clip, the headline says: A Year Without Answers.

It cuts to a fancy restaurant with Aggie and Nile. “The whole world thinks they know what happened,” Nile said with a suspicious smirk. “But I didn’t kill my wife.”

You see a happy couple, Nile and his wife, hugging at a party. They both smiled. But his wife looked at the camera, and Nile looked the other way.

It cuts to a raucous demonstration on the street. People rallied with placards. One placard says: Justice For Maddie. Things got crazy. A policeman SMASHED a demonstrator with a nightstick. You hear the squishy sound of FLESH and BONES getting whacked.

It cuts to Nile’s press conference. Cameras flash everywhere. The crowd is a mix of the media and protestors.

“You want to be re-legitimized?” Aggie said. “Offer a new narrative.”

The screen turned black.

When it comes back, you see Aggie talking to Nile over the phone. “I wanna roll the dice on you,” Nile told her.

“Well alright, then,” Aggie smiled and nodded her head.

“Don’t let me down,” Nile said.

Okay. So Nile is a rich guy accused of her wife’s murder. You don’t know if he is acquitted already or awaiting trial. Either way, Aggie chose a side. She would write a book that’s like a puff piece for Nile. Believe it or not, THERE is an AUDIENCE for that, especially if you think the story happened in the current 2025/2026 world. Controversial topics attract attention. And if you attract enough attention (100k to 1 million or so), it could lead to sales. Also, true crime is hot these days. And of course, there’s the Manosphere, the masculinity factor. Toxic Masculinity is a spectrum. There are very toxic guys on one side and very nice guys on the other side, and everyone in between. Nile Jarvis could be a horrible person, but someone can RELATE to him.

It cuts to Aggie talking to an older woman at her office. “Spending all that time with a possible murderer doesn’t scare you?”

Aggie pulls up in front of Nile’s mansion. She stared at the house for a few seconds. She went in, but then…

Bark! Bark!

Two large Dobermans begin barking at her.

Inside Nile’s mansion, “You’re not how I pictured you,” he told her.

It cuts to someone throwing a Molotov cocktail into a coffee shop. The glass EXPLODES into pieces.

It cuts to Aggie in the woods on the brink of tears.

“I had a rough few years,” he told her.

It cuts to police vehicles in the woods. Aggie is disheveled with wounds and bruises all over her face. Wow! What horrible thing happened to Aggie?

It cuts back to Aggie and Nile in the fancy restaurant. “You got blood lust, I could smell it,” Nile told her.

An intrigued Aggie squinted her eyes and smiled at Nile’s instinct about her. Maybe Nile is right. Maybe Aggie has a hidden darkness inside her — a ‘beast in me.’ 😉

It cuts to Aggie and Nina (Brittany Snow) hiking in the woods. “I hope you won’t be disappointed,” Nina told her.

“By what?” Aggie asked.

“The truth,” Nina said.

Okay. So what is the truth? It seems Nina knows something about Nile.

It cuts to nighttime inside Niles’ mansion. He poured wine into Aggie’s glass. “You’re a lot more than people think,” Aggie told Nile.

“I think we’re having a moment,” a cheeky Nile told her.

Aggie laughed.

Nile smiled.

It cuts to Aggie on the brink of crying again.

“You need help, Aggie,” Christina (Eleni Yovas) told her. “You’d rather invent a murder than look in the mirror.”

Wow! That seems like a HEAVY statement from Christina. Did Aggie murder someone? Did she pin or accuse someone of murder, instead of looking in the mirror to take responsibility for herself?

“If Nile did this, I need to know,” Aggie told her.

It cuts to nighttime inside Aggie’s house. Someone knocked at her door. It’s a sweaty and disordered Jack (Matthew James Thomas). “Nile Jarvis! He’s not like us,” he told Aggie.

It cuts to actor Jonathan Banks in his office. I think he’s a book agent. “Nile? This book? It’s a MISTAKE!” he raised his voice to Aggie.

It cuts to Aggie and Nile talking in the woods. “I trusted you a lot,” he told Aggie.

In the bedroom at night, it cuts to Nina slapping Nile on the face, but Nile blocked and grabbed her arm.

“Maybe I am complicit,” Aggie’s tears poured out of her eyes. She’s talking to Jonathan Banks. “But I’m not a monster.”

The final scene is Aggie and Nile face-to-face in an office.

“Like I said,” Nile said. “Blood lust.”

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