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Critic Reviews
The PlaylistOct 14, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“The Undoing,” which mostly resembles an intriguing, ‘90s throwback erotic thriller in its first few episodes eventually settles into the familiar courtroom drama territory writer David E. Kelley built his name on but peppered with crime flashbacks and horrified-by-the-ways-in-which-she-has-failed-to-heed-her-own-advice moments of self-reflection and self-recrimination.
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Nov 12, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“The Undoing” is not subtle, which at first I didn’t mind. The pilot episode hit the exact pleasure center between mild critique and life-style porn. ... At least [“Little Fires Everywhere”] makes an attempt to contend with some of the questions of race and class that it raises. In “The Undoing,” such questions are made irrelevant.
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Oct 26, 2020
Season 1 Review:
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.
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Oct 23, 2020
Season 1 Review:
[The second episode is] a different tone from the first episode, more crime drama than social commentary, but it’s still engaging. Then—bizarrely and rather disappointingly—the show becomes a courtroom drama. ... As the show leans into legal strategy and the dreary interiors of courtrooms, it leaches out all the nasty fun that made the series so gripping in the first place.
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Oct 22, 2020
Season 1 Review:
On the surface it may look similar to “Big Little Lies,” but in the ways that count, it is darker, slower and not as captivating. ... By the fifth episode (HBO provided all but the sixth and final episode for this review), the story feels fully spent and too thinly stretched. Beauty and mood can take things only so far.
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Oct 22, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This should all be sexily entertaining, and even fun. .... The fun lasts a little way into the second episode, with Jonathan’s whereabouts uncertain, Grace’s nerves fraying and the shape of the mystery still unclear. It dissipates pretty quickly after that. ... Scene after scene, we’re put through the wringer of watching manifestly intelligent people doing stupid and highly improbable things on the witness stand, on TV or in response to late-night booty calls. ... After a while, everything else about the show is just noise.
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Oct 21, 2020
Season 1 Review:
With the exception of the way director Susanne Bier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle shoot Manhattan itself through a slight haze, lending an unnervingly off tone to the proceedings, it’s all extremely rote, like an expanded version of the mid-budget Nineties movie that would have starred Kidman and Grant at their respective heights of celebrity.
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