Nile Jarvis is One of the Scariest Villains in Television

Nile Jarvis was depicted in the television show, called The Beast in Me, where he plays a sociopathic monster that delights in hurting others. He was suspected in the beginning of the show for murdering his wife, and this turns out to be true, but there was another twist added to his character that I did not see coming.

His wife was not the first one that he had killed.

Nile has a bloodlust inside of him, a beast that he cannot control, and he must satiate this hunger at all costs.

It turns out that Nile was secretly a serial killer, that killed a lot of people that wronged him over the years. The only reason he was never caught was because his family was always protecting him, to keep their image safe in the public eye. This infuriated me so much as I was watching the show. His family was just as complicit in his crimes, because they constantly kept hiding the bodies, in fear that the world was going to tarnish their family name.

Nile was able to kill who knows how many people for so many years, and we end up getting a glimpse into the kind of man he was when we finally see what happened to Madison. She suspected her husband of being a killer, and was determined to get him arrested for his financial crimes with his family, so that she could keep herself safe from this monster.

Her plan with an FBI agent does not go well, and she is forced to run away, but Nile catches her. He learns of her betrayal from a friend of hers named Nina, that he marries much later after Madison's death. His wife confesses that she has an idea of what Nile is, and this conversation takes a turn when Nile snaps. They get into a scuffle, and Madison is not able to escape from him. He beats her to death with an art piece, and he actually expresses remorse over killing her, which made her death even more terrifying to watch.

Nile really did love her, and after she betrayed him in such a way, he willing to murder a woman that he loved, proving that he was much eviler than we thought.

Even though I already knew that he had killed his wife, it was so shocking to learn how her murder had gone down, and it was so heartbreaking that her plan went to hell, leading to her worst fear.

His downfall felt so satisfying toward the end of the show, when Aggie convince Nina to bring him down. Nina always had a suspicion about her husband, but refused to believe that he was capable of killing Madison, that she had considered to be a friend. She decides to go along with her own plan of bringing him down, and even though she was pregnant with his child, she was determined to take the risk.

She makes him confess at the perfect time, when Nile finally reaches his breaking point. His father had a stroke after finding out about another murder Nile had committed, and he was heartbroken over losing Aggie as a friend, after he found out she was only using his friendship as a way to bring him down for killing his wife.

Nina is able to break him, and she gets him to confess to killing both Madison and another young man, and Nina is able to convince Nile that she still loves him, despite what he is. Nile seems ecstatic to have Nina in his life now, and this leads to his downfall toward the end of the show, when Nina delivers his recorded confession to the FBI.

It was bittersweet of Nile to be caught this way.

He constantly had his family backing him up for all of his crimes, and after he loses that safety net, someone was finally able to break through his armor.

Nile Jarvis is one of the best villains I have seen in television, and he scared me a lot more than I expected.

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Emy Quinn