The Undoing

HBO | Release Date: October 25, 2020

6.6	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 58 Ratings

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Method__ManNov 13, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Acting is top notch. But once again, another colour desaturated boring “mystery” thriller with supremely stupid characters. Basically every episode is a slog waiting to see what stupid thing the cast does next.

I am starting to get tires of these grey colour, grey plot, grey drama shows.

And the whole not getting a lawyer thing, in the USA? No one does that.… Expand

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JLuis_001Dec 5, 2020

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'tHaving 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.… Expand

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kingakNov 24, 2020

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 soThe 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.… Expand

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Ruabadfsh2Feb 17, 2021

A great lead up to a disappointing end. Overall the acting and characters are brilliant but I am very disappointed in the unsatisfying conclusion.

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Mauro_LanariJan 17, 2021

(Mauro Lanari)
"Ugh. Well, I'll probably never see her again, because they hire you to give them the hard truths, and then, then they fire you for delivering them": at the 9th minute of the 1st episode of "The Undoing" it is already evident(Mauro Lanari)
"Ugh. Well, I'll probably never see her again, because they hire you to give them the hard truths, and then, then they fire you for delivering them": at the 9th minute of the 1st episode of "The Undoing" it is already evident that among character designers someone has skipped the lessons on the reality principle: since when, if you graduate in clinical psychology at Harvard, are you exempted from knowing negative transference, from undergoing didactic therapy and from being periodically followed/monitored by a supervisor? Would Kidman have 20 years of work experience only as a detective? Did Susanne Bier direct the HBO miniseries to commemorate the centenary of Freudian failure ("Beyond the Pleasure Principle", 1920)? At least I would have left the name "Grace" to the protagonist of the excellent "Dogville" (Trier 2003)… Expand

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