Rebecca Rittenhouse in 'His & Hers.' Courtesy of Netflix Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text [This story contains major spoilers from the finale of His & Hers.] In the finale of Netflix's limited series His & Hers, it seems clear that Rebecca Rittenhouse's character, newscaster Lexy Jones, is responsible for the recent deaths of her former friends. And then, in a shocking twist that tops the first shocking twist, it's revealed that Lexy was actually framed. Rittenhouse admits to initially being bummed out to not be the murderer, only to quickly come around to preferring this outcome. "As I thought about it, I was like, wait, it's so much easier for me as an actor to empathize with this character," she tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I felt like it allowed me to have a more human experience with the performance, because she was bad, but I also felt bad for her. I mean, she's not a good person, but she's not a psychopath." Developed by Lady Macbeth director William Oldroyd, His & Hers is a mystery thriller adapted from Alice Feeney's 2020 book. Tessa Thompson toplines as Anna, an Atlanta newscaster who has fallen into a life of reclusivity, until a murder in her nearby hometown sends her back in hopes of finding answers - and returning to her cushy gig as the face of her network. In Anna's time away, Lexy Jones has taken over the news desk, and the tension between the two only grows as Anna requests that Lexy's husband Richard (Pablo Schreiber) come with her to Dahlonega on the assignment. Lexy is right to be suspicious, as Richard and Anna engage in a brief affair. "Lexy was a difficult role to cast," Oldroyd says. "When we met Rebecca, we knew straight away that she would be more than a match for Tessa. She had a natural wit and comic timing that was essential to Lexy. It was a crucial piece of casting that would determine the success of the huge twist that launches us into the finale." His & Hers opens with the murder of Anna's old friend Rachel (Jamie Tisdale), and, not long after, their other pal, Helen (Poppy Liu), meets the same fate. Flashbacks provide insight into the dynamic amongst the girls as high schoolers, with their group also involving Anna's future sister-in-law, Zoe (played by Marin Ireland in the present), and Catherine Kelly (Astrid Rotenberry), who was bullied by Rachel. In the penultimate episode, Zoe becomes the latest victim, while a flashback to Anna's 16th birthday finds the girls partying in the woods, when a bunch of older boys show up, which was secretly arranged by Rachel. They begin attempting to sexually assault Catherine, until Anna breaks it up. Catherine runs away, leaving Anna behind to take her place, believing she was in on it. The finale then opens with a young Catherine preparing to go sailing with her parents and sister, Andrea (Savanna Gann). When called by her name, Catherine makes a correction: "It's Lexy now." Andrea tells Catherine to cut back on eating junk food, saying "You're gonna tip the boat," and so when Andrea asks her sister to grab her inhaler for the ride, unbeknownst to Andrea, Catherine exhausts all of the pumps in it. This leads to Andrea's death out on the boat. Jumping back to current day, Richard has lured Anna to what he says is the lake house of Lexy's family, because Lexy wants to "bury the hatchet." When she spots a photo of Catherine and figures it out, Anna traps Richard in a room, only for Lexy to come out swinging. The two women engage in an intense fight throughout the house, with them even bodyslamming each other into a glass table. Grabbing a gun, Lexy gets the upper hand, just as Anna's detective husband, Jack (Jon Bernthal), arrives and throws Anna out of the way. Too bad for Lexy that the gun is out of bullets. Even worse is that she then gets shot in the head by Jack's previously unseen partner, Priya (Sunita Mani). Lexy's guilt seems to be an open and shut case to the police, considering Rachel and Helen tried to recently blackmail her over her sister. And the local sheriff now can't help but think back to Andrea's funeral. "I don't think I've ever seen a body cry like Catherine," he recalls, before later seeing her "eating Krispy Kremes, smiling like she just got the last parking spot at Cracker Barrel." Further evidence of her questionable behavior was Rachel's nails being found in Catherine's childhood bedroom. And it sure is suspicious that she sought out to replace Anna at her job! But, a year later, Anna is visiting her mother, Alice (Crystal Fox), who seemingly had been battling dementia, when Anna learns that Alice was the real killer. "I never intended to kill Catherine," Alice confesses in a letter, admitting to seeking revenge for what happened to Anna on that birthday. "I thought prison for abandoning you that night was