HBO The Undoing

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I love Nicole and Hugh Grant. And love that she sings the theme song. Recorded it with her husband at their home studio during quarantine. Why not.

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Anonymous wrote:Kidman’s botox makes her look almost unrecognizable and the fillers on her upper lip are just weird.

I somewhat agree, but that look fits right in with a wealthy Manhattan mother of a teenager.

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Anonymous wrote:I love Nicole and Hugh Grant. And love that she sings the theme song. Recorded it with her husband at their home studio during quarantine. Why not.

My opportunity to repeat that Moulin Rouge and Nicole Kidman in Moulin Rouge was so underrated!

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I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

Also, their witty sexual banter is like watching grandparents flirt.

Also, leave it to David E. Kelly to have a completely naked woman who is stunning in a locker room in the first episode.

DH and I thought the naked woman looked like Hispanic Jennifer Lawrence.

I’m not sure I can get into this one. It’s supposed to be mocking the ultra-rich, this time in NYC, but it ends up glorifying them.

[Anonymous]

Possibly a spoiler but to those who have read the books - Is the theme around cheating/infidelity? I have a sensitivity to this subject and loved the first episode but don't want to keep going if this is where the show is headed. Thanks

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Anonymous wrote:I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

Also, their witty sexual banter is like watching grandparents flirt.

Also, leave it to David E. Kelly to have a completely naked woman who is stunning in a locker room in the first episode.

DH and I thought the naked woman looked like Hispanic Jennifer Lawrence.

I’m not sure I can get into this one. It’s supposed to be mocking the ultra-rich, this time in NYC, but it ends up glorifying them.

What? No. It's entirely normal for a 53 year old psychiatrist in Manhattan to have a 14 or 15 year old.

Hugh Grant looks his age or older, that's the problem. They should have hired someone more in line with how young Nicole Kidman looks. She played a 40 something in BLL and she looked the part.

[Anonymous]

That kid is like 12. Also Nicole Kidman looks of some weird old age I can’t determine.

Regardless, I would have cast people in their 40s as normal prep school parents.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

Also, their witty sexual banter is like watching grandparents flirt.

Also, leave it to David E. Kelly to have a completely naked woman who is stunning in a locker room in the first episode.

DH and I thought the naked woman looked like Hispanic Jennifer Lawrence.

I’m not sure I can get into this one. It’s supposed to be mocking the ultra-rich, this time in NYC, but it ends up glorifying them.

This is true. I wonder why they made Grace so rich in the tv show. In the book, she is "upper middle class for Manhattan" and kind of struggling among the financial and media titans she associates with.

The house she escapes to is a tiny, unwinterized cabin on a lake upstate not a huge beach house in the Hamptons.

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Anonymous wrote:That kid is like 12. Also Nicole Kidman looks of some weird old age I can’t determine.

Regardless, I would have cast people in their 40s as normal prep school parents.

Not as high school parents. No professional has kids in their twenties in Manhattan. It's unheard of. I had one at 29 and was looked down upon as a teenage mother.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

Also, their witty sexual banter is like watching grandparents flirt.

Also, leave it to David E. Kelly to have a completely naked woman who is stunning in a locker room in the first episode.

DH and I thought the naked woman looked like Hispanic Jennifer Lawrence.

I’m not sure I can get into this one. It’s supposed to be mocking the ultra-rich, this time in NYC, but it ends up glorifying them.

This is true. I wonder why they made Grace so rich in the tv show. In the book, she is "upper middle class for Manhattan" and kind of struggling among the financial and media titans she associates with.

The house she escapes to is a tiny, unwinterized cabin on a lake upstate not a huge beach house in the Hamptons.

Yes, in the book, the party she goes to in the first episode was super weird and alienating for her. Jonathon didn't attend with her either and the whole thing is supposed to show us how isolated she is from other people, which is a major plotline in the novel later on. But in the tv show, Nicole Kidman fits right in so you don't get any of that effect.

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Anonymous wrote:I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

IRL, these 2 have 5 children between them ages 7-12.

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Anonymous wrote:That kid is like 12. Also Nicole Kidman looks of some weird old age I can’t determine.

Regardless, I would have cast people in their 40s as normal prep school parents.

Except prep school parents aren’t in their forties unless they have kids in the lower school.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the book, which is pretty good. I can't see Hugh Grant in the husband role though.

I haven't read the book. We watched first episode last night and I love Hugh Grant's character so far. It's definitely NY-centric, and that's fun if you've lived or worked in NY. It's written and produced by David Kelley - so it definitely has that polish to it. I am enjoying so far.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

Also, their witty sexual banter is like watching grandparents flirt.

Also, leave it to David E. Kelly to have a completely naked woman who is stunning in a locker room in the first episode.

DH and I thought the naked woman looked like Hispanic Jennifer Lawrence.

I’m not sure I can get into this one. It’s supposed to be mocking the ultra-rich, this time in NYC, but it ends up glorifying them.

What? No. It's entirely normal for a 53 year old psychiatrist in Manhattan to have a 14 or 15 year old.

Hugh Grant looks his age or older, that's the problem. They should have hired someone more in line with how young Nicole Kidman looks. She played a 40 something in BLL and she looked the part.

Hugh Grant has a 2 year old IRL....so there is that. Nicole Kidman has kids about that age or younger!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I looked it up and Hugh Grant is 60 and Nicole Kidman is 53. They are about 15 years too old to play those characters, even in Manhattan and for their lifestyle.

Also, their witty sexual banter is like watching grandparents flirt.

Also, leave it to David E. Kelly to have a completely naked woman who is stunning in a locker room in the first episode.

DH and I thought the naked woman looked like Hispanic Jennifer Lawrence.

I’m not sure I can get into this one. It’s supposed to be mocking the ultra-rich, this time in NYC, but it ends up glorifying them.

This is true. I wonder why they made Grace so rich in the tv show. In the book, she is "upper middle class for Manhattan" and kind of struggling among the financial and media titans she associates with.

The house she escapes to is a tiny, unwinterized cabin on a lake upstate not a huge beach house in the Hamptons.

Haven't read the books but as a frequenter of Long Island and other East Coast beaches, the first thing I said when I saw that beach was "that is not the East Coast" looks more like a West Coast beach. I am surprised they did that considering they filmed all over the Upper East Side