The Undoing (2020)

Watchseries; Very shallow and boring. The only quality the show could provide was to picture a real narcissistic person. It had enormous potential with good side characters like the grandpa or the friend woman but it was like a big colourful cake which looks tempting but when you taste it turns out how bad it is inside.

Very shallow and boring. The only quality the show could provide was to picture a real narcissistic person. It had enormous potential with good side characters like the grandpa or the friend woman but it was like a big colourful cake which looks tempting but when you taste it turns out how bad it is inside.

The Undoing watchseries. Because we can get easily bored in a Covid world, we can find ourselves devoting 6 hours to bad writing and all kinds of unrealistic twists and turns just to see who did it. This was painful and would have been much more tolerable to wait for 6 weeks and then binge watch the whole thing, with lots of fast forwarding. I agree with most of the low rated reviews that provided details, especially about episode 6.

Obviously I'm in the minority here, but this show is as dull as lead. Starting with the first episode, so much feels so amateurish, like the lady guests all taking a turn at a line at the party. And there is just so much useless footage, with a staggering amount of cutaways (I don't need to see any more cityscapes or puddle reflections, thanks) and even useless scenes, like Grace fainting and going to the hospital. Ten minutes wasted right there. I usually adore Nicole Kidman, but she has about three expressions these days that are so odd that I can actually do an impersonation of them with my friends, who also hate this show. In fact, we're actually enjoying how much we hate it.

I know David Kelly wrote it, which shocked me as he also wrote Big Little Lies (we liked season one, not season two), but this series feels more like one of his shows from the '90s, written as tame storylines with commercial breaks in mind. The story is just dumb, I don't care about any of the characters, and the whole thing feels wooden. And there have been more than a few scenes where I was embarrassed for Hugh Grant as he attempts to cry. And no, that's not his character faking a cry. That's him trying to emote. Ugh... just cringeworthy. The entire thing.

After watching this on the heels of a three-season binge of Penny Dreadful (one of the best shows I've ever seen), the contrast between riveting writing and the phoned-in kind is keenly apparent after watching The Undoing.