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- 2020
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- HBO
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
Summary Grace Sachs (Kidman) seemingly perfect life unravels when her husband (Hugh Grant) disappears in this limited series from David E. Kelley based on Jean Hanff Korelitz's book You Should Have Known.
Created By: David E. Kelley
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
- 2020
- TV-MA
- HBO
The Undoing
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 25, 2020
62
6.7
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Summary Grace Sachs (Kidman) seemingly perfect life unravels when her husband (Hugh Grant) disappears in this limited series from David E. Kelley based on Jean Hanff Korelitz's book You Should Have Known.
Created By: David E. Kelley
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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47% Positive
15 Reviews
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47% Mixed
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15 Reviews
6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
62
47% Positive
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
47% Mixed
15 Reviews
15 Reviews
6% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
A murder story so full of plot twists and turns, so many characters shedding snakish skins, that it's nearly impossible to write about with scattering spoilers around like confetti. Yet in no way does it turn on plot gimmickry. It's about trust and relationships, authenticity and appearances, verisimilitude and veneers.
Initially it lacked the bitchy bite of Big Little Lies. Kidman's character seemed too bland and nicey-nicey to intrigue. Grant's performance outshone hers. ... Then it started to ripen. ... Kidman's eyeswivelling was off the charts as Grace's perfect life looked to be unravelling. Tasty. Again we seem to be gazing at the dark, maggoty underbelly of wealth and privilege. I'm definitely in.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 92 User Ratings
6.7
65% Positive
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
23% Mixed
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12% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 92 User Ratings
6.7
65% Positive
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
23% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
12% Negative
11 Ratings
11 Ratings
I binged watched the entire show in one night. I couldn't stop watching. Every single part is played so incredibly well and when it ends, you're left with your jaw on the ground. I know it's based on a book, but it's so well written. If you're into psychological thriller, you'll love this.
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The Undoing was a very interesting and intriguing mystery and one of my favorite miniseries I've seen. The acting from Nicole Kidman and Huge Grant was phenomenal, they gave very strong emotionally powerful performances. Noma Dumezweni, Donald Sutherland, Matilda De Angelis, and Noah Jupe gave outstanding supporting performances. The costumes were spectacular especially ones wore by Nicole Kidman. The makeup and hairstyling was excellent especially on Nicole Kidman. The music was superb. Nicole sounded beautiful performing the opening theme song. The writing was ok but not the best, the story and character development were not the strongest and just not that well developed and they didn't have much depth.
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The Undoing is beautiful — the people, the locations, the coats! — and we’re all apt to cut beautiful things a little slack. Through all of the misdirects, the characters’ dumb decisions, the dreamy detours, The Undoing kept me guessing — and, of course, gloating over everyone’s misfortune.
Early on “The Undoing” seems like it may cast a spell, too, but that feeling wears off.
Despite Kidman’s and Grant’s performances, we couldn’t muster up enough energy to care about anyone in The Undoing, at least not enough to spend six hours unraveling its central mystery. It’s certainly watchable, but having this show come so soon after BLL makes it feel like we’ve seen it all before.
The new HBO limited series is, to no one’s surprise, ably acted and handsomely made. ... It’s just a shame that it couldn’t resist those [true crime] clichés to become something much more powerful than just another case of the week.
Shot like a pulpy ’90s erotic thriller by Susanne Bier and stretched thinner than the Netflix version it echoes (remember “Gypsy”?), there’s very little entertainment to be had here, and even less of a purpose.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Having finished with the last episode today, I must say that this adaptation could've been easily a movie instead of a miniseries.
I say this because the mystery is not that intriguing and to a certain extent it's too obvious and I can't help but feel that the writers tried to extend it as much as possible, although I don't understand why.
Of the cast, the big names like: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Edgar Ramírez and Donald Sutherland, they hardly even try.
Who in my opinion leaves a real impression is Noma Dumezweni as the lawyer Haley Fitzgerald, and that says a lot.
Susanne Bier delivers an elegant but very cold work. Like I said, the mystery is simple and therefore the suspense is only effective in the first two episodes, after that it dissolves into a kind of Law & Order of rich people **** themselves over.
Especially when you consider how simple if feels the way it reveals the murderer and murder.
I always say: never judge something by your expectations but by what it is, but frankly I expected much, much more.
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The performances are great. The directing- great. The plot- interesting. Scenography, costumes, soundtrack fine. Everything seems to be working and yet it's not. Script is unbearably pretentious. Writers were trying to make the show so 'intellectual' and 'smart' and 'wow so many deep speeches' that it's hard to watch. It's sad because it had so much potential. Well, next time HBO.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Pros: clearly money went into this: all technical aspects are super pro, esp. the photography, sets are lavish, and the actors are expensive
Cons: After 1 episode even if we don't know where this is going (whodunnit, dun dun dun), we know this is not going to be very satisfying what with the hamfisted whole haves/have nots trope, on-the-nose upper middle-class clichés and Hugh Grant playing basically himself (and not believeble as a neurosurgeon at all). I'm just glad I'm pirating this and not paying a subscription! Argh!
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Production Company:
- Blossom Films
- David E. Kelley Productions
- HBO Original Programming
- Made Up Stories
Initial Release Date: Oct 25, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 4 Nominations
Pena de Prata
• 5 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 5 Nominations
