The Undoing
Creators:
David E. KelleyDirected by:
Susanne BierScreenplay:
David E. KelleyCinematography:
Anthony Dod MantleCast:
Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant, Donald Sutherland, Edgar Ramirez, Noah Jupe, Lily Rabe, Matilda De Angelis, Ismael Cruz Cordova, Noma Dumezweni, Sofie Gråbøl (more)Episodes(6)
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The Undoing (E01)
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The Missing (E02)
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Do No Harm (E03)
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See No Evil (E04)
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Trial by Fury (E05)
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The Bloody Truth (E06)
Plots(1)
From writer David E. Kelley (Big Little Lies) and director Susanne Bier (The Night Manager), the six-part limited series The Undoing focuses on a successful therapist, Grace Fraser (Nicole Kidman), along with her husband, Jonathan (Hugh Grant), and their young son (Noah Jupe), who attends an elite private school in New York City. Overnight a chasm opens in her seemingly perfect life: a violent death, a missing spouse and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself. (HBO Europe)
(more)Reviews of this series by the user NinadeL (1)
The Undoing (2020)
I would definitely skip Jean Hanff Korelitz's mediocre thriller, but then again, in serial form, which follows the good stuff from Big Little Lies (based on the similarly mediocre Liane Moriarty), it's great. Contemporary quality TV is good for filmmakers left in their genre and mature film stars for whom the small screen is an interesting change. Kidman side-by-side with Grant creates tension without the slightest hesitation, letting the likes of Lily Rabe, whom television has defined so far, mature alongside them. Sometimes a miniseries with big cliffhangers is quite alright. It is, after all, a trick as old as cinema itself. #hbo
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