‘His & Hers’: Do Jack and Anna End Up Together? A Breakdown of Their Past & Future
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for His & Hers Season 1.]
With a title like His & Hers, you might suspect that Jon Bernthal and Tessa Thompson‘s new Netflix series is a romance. In reality, it has very little romantic undertones, though an estranged couple’s relationship is at the center of it all. The actors play Jack, a detective, and Anna, a news anchor. They’re brought back together — in only a professional sense at first — when a murder shakes their small town.
The kicker? The victim is someone they both have history with. She was Anna’s old high school friend and Jack’s current mistress. As more bodies start piling up, Anna and Jack begin to question if the other has something to hide. Over the first few episodes, Anna and Jack’s history remains a complete mystery, as does the identity of the killer.
If you can’t wait to find out how His & Hers ends, Swooon is breaking down Anna and Jack’s past and future. Why did they break up before the events of the show? Do they manage to find their way back to each other? Find out below.
Why Did Jack and Anna break up?
Anna and Jack separated after the unexpected death of their baby daughter. In Episode 2, the show offers its first flashback of the couple’s life together before tragedy struck. It’s a complete 180 from the hostility they treat each other with in the present. The scene also reveals that Anna was pregnant.
More details don’t arrive until the next episode, through another flashback. Anna and Jack comfort their distressed, crying baby before they’re about to head out on a date. Anna doesn’t think it’s a good idea to leave their daughter in such a state, though her mom is staying over to babysit. Jack insists that it’s just normal fussiness, so they leave.
Back in the present, Jack tells Anna’s mom (Crystal Fox) that she still loves her daughter, despite being at each others’ throats since the murder investigation began, Jack eventually convinces Anna to talk in Episode 4. Though they begin by talking about the murders, the past also comes up. Jack wonders how Anna — who moved to Atlanta for her career — could have left him after how broken and grieving they were. She didn’t offer him an explanation at the time.
“I tried, you stopped,” he says, adding that he wanted to fix their relationship and make her feel better. Anna explains that she didn’t want him to do that. “I just wanted you to listen to me,” she says. “You wanted me to hold you, so that’s why you held me.” She couldn’t take Jack telling her over and over that she would be fine, and that he was trying to move on from the pain, so she left.
Do Jack and Anna end up together?
Jack and Anna get a happy ending — well, as happy as it can be given the circumstances. Anna figures out that the killer is one of her past friends, Catherine (Rebecca Rittenhouse), who was bullied and set up for assault by her friend group. Once Catherine is shot and killed by a police officer, after she had turned a gun on Anna, Anna and Jack reconcile and move on. They also take in the daughter of Jack’s murdered sister, who was part of the aforementioned friend group.
By the end, Jack and Anna have moved back in together and are living a white-picket-fence life. Anna’s a successful anchor in Atlanta and pregnant again. All is well, until Anna’s mom drops a major bombshell: She murdered Anna’s old “friends” out of revenge and framed Catherine. Anna, it turns out, was the one who got assaulted while her friends watched. Anna accidentally caught it on her video camera and didn’t get rid of the tapes, which her mother later found.
Her mom also used the murders to get Anna back to town and bring Anna and Jack back together. (She’s a killer matchmaker, one might say.) Given Anna’s smile as she reads her mother’s confession-via-letter, it seems like she isn’t going to let the revelation disrupt her picture-perfect life with Jack and their growing family.
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His & Hers, Streaming Now, Netflix
