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TV SERIES · 2025–2025 · USA

The Beast in Me

Episodes
16

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A new neighbour's request to cut a jogging trail through shared woods sets the story in motion, and his blunt opinions soon draw in Aggie, whose stalled book he wants to replace with a portrait of himself.

8 Interesting Facts About The Beast in Me

Interesting Facts (5)

  1. #001

    Matthew Rhys (Nile Jarvis) read extensively to research his character's psychopathy. Claire Danes (Aggie Wiggs) suggested "The Journalist and the Murderer" (1990). Rhys also read "The Psychopath Test" (2011), after which he began to think he was a psychopath himself.

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  2. #002

    When filming began, Claire Danes (Aggie Wiggs) and Matthew Rhys (Nile Jarvis) had no idea how the finale would unfold. Scripts reached them only later, even though Danes was an executive producer on the series.

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  3. #003

    Nile Jarvis's first act in his new home is to ask his neighbours for permission to cut a jogging trail through woods held in common.

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  4. #004

    Nile tells Aggie that no one wants her book on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia, since people would rather have gossip and destruction than hope.

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  5. #005

    Nile proposes that Aggie write about him instead of her stalled book; she turns him down.

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Behind the Scenes (1)

  1. #006

    The lunch scene between Claire Danes (Aggie Wiggs) and Matthew Rhys (Nile Jarvis) was shot on the second day of filming. Rhys ranks it among the hardest scenes he has had to film.

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Characters & Cast (2)

  1. #007

    Matthew Rhys (Nile Jarvis) initially assumed he was being offered the role of "Agent Brian Abbott", which ultimately went to David Lyons. Being cast as the lead came as a shock; as he put it: "I don't get offered these kinds of parts."

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  2. #008

    Jodie Foster, one of the executive producers, first approached Claire Danes about starring in the series. This happened mid-pandemic, so it took a few years for the project to come together, by which point Foster could no longer carry out her original plan to direct some episodes.

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