HBO The Undoing

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

My wife thought the same after this week’s episode. Or perhaps someone hired by the father. The dad is extremely rich and savvy; of course he would investigate the ask for a large amount of money. He’s the kind of guy who keeps a PI on retainer.

[Anonymous]

From now on, anytime I see Reese Witherspoon or Nicole Kidman tout a book, I'll be sure not to read it in case they have plans to option the book. At least for The Undoing - I wish I did not know the ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

You think? Would an old man have strength enough to bash in Elena’s head with a sculpting hammer? Also, just for fun, what do you think Grace was doing in Elena’s neighborhood that evening? It’s possible she isn’t the murderer, but did she hook up with Elena? They had wicked chemistry in the elevator after the Reardon party.

There have already been a couple of incidents where Grace seemed to have totally forgotten something or had a mysterious flashback. The show is either planting red herrings or they’ve tipped their hand. Obviously the kiss was designed to be caught on camera to rouse suspicion against Grace. That was a pretty clunky scene.

[Anonymous]

I think Nicole Kidman looks gorgeous and I think the ages are completely realistic for wealthy parents. She looks better than I do, and I'm 45. I think we should all be grateful for older character portrayals!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Nicole Kidman looks gorgeous and I think the ages are completely realistic for wealthy parents. She looks better than I do, and I'm 45. I think we should all be grateful for older character portrayals!

I think she looks gorgeous too, but her face looks frozen and her mouth has started curling into a Joker smile.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

You think? Would an old man have strength enough to bash in Elena’s head with a sculpting hammer? Also, just for fun, what do you think Grace was doing in Elena’s neighborhood that evening? It’s possible she isn’t the murderer, but did she hook up with Elena? They had wicked chemistry in the elevator after the Reardon party.

There have already been a couple of incidents where Grace seemed to have totally forgotten something or had a mysterious flashback. The show is either planting red herrings or they’ve tipped their hand. Obviously the kiss was designed to be caught on camera to rouse suspicion against Grace. That was a pretty clunky scene.

What has Grace completely forgotten?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

You think? Would an old man have strength enough to bash in Elena’s head with a sculpting hammer? Also, just for fun, what do you think Grace was doing in Elena’s neighborhood that evening? It’s possible she isn’t the murderer, but did she hook up with Elena? They had wicked chemistry in the elevator after the Reardon party.

There have already been a couple of incidents where Grace seemed to have totally forgotten something or had a mysterious flashback. The show is either planting red herrings or they’ve tipped their hand. Obviously the kiss was designed to be caught on camera to rouse suspicion against Grace. That was a pretty clunky scene.

What has Grace completely forgotten?

I mean other than the shot of her wandering around. She didn't forget that...she said she just was walking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

You think? Would an old man have strength enough to bash in Elena’s head with a sculpting hammer? Also, just for fun, what do you think Grace was doing in Elena’s neighborhood that evening? It’s possible she isn’t the murderer, but did she hook up with Elena? They had wicked chemistry in the elevator after the Reardon party.

There have already been a couple of incidents where Grace seemed to have totally forgotten something or had a mysterious flashback. The show is either planting red herrings or they’ve tipped their hand. Obviously the kiss was designed to be caught on camera to rouse suspicion against Grace. That was a pretty clunky scene.

What has Grace completely forgotten?

I mean other than the shot of her wandering around. She didn't forget that...she said she just was walking.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that that's not actually Grace in the security camera, but someone dressed and wigged to look like her. It's a set up, orchestrated by Hugh Grant.

[Anonymous]

Hugh Grant was in a movie with Sarah Jessica Parker and Gene Hackman titled Extreme Measures (1996). It was pretty suspenseful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

My wife thought the same after this week’s episode. Or perhaps someone hired by the father. The dad is extremely rich and savvy; of course he would investigate the ask for a large amount of money. He’s the kind of guy who keeps a PI on retainer.

yup. Sutherland. It’s always the biggest star in the ensemble in Law & Order. Same here. I’m checking out

[Anonymous]

Maybe it’s the short balding doctor. Just trying to think of a twist we don’t see coming. Somehow he was jealous of Grant and the victim and took it out on them by killing her and setting him up.

[Anonymous]

I like it so far but don;t think Nicole's acting is all that good. She was great in the first Big Little Lies, especially the scenes with her therapist. She seems to be trying to channel that same understated acting in this but its not working. She seems totally flat and non reactive, like she has major depression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it’s the short balding doctor. Just trying to think of a twist we don’t see coming. Somehow he was jealous of Grant and the victim and took it out on them by killing her and setting him up.

Yeah, this is more what I want to discuss! Interesting theory.

[Anonymous]

Nah, it's totally Hugh Grant.

It's going to be an "I didn't know I married a maniac"-type ending.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m through Episode three. Frankly this is just one Law & Order stretched out over three episodes. And, as with Law & Order, you can guess who did it by asking “ Who is the biggest star in the ensemble?”. I’m quitting. I’m tired of Nicole’s confused look and unmoving face. She can’t play a mom in her thirties anymore. She’s 54.

My thoughts exactly! And it's clearly Donald Southerland.

You think? Would an old man have strength enough to bash in Elena’s head with a sculpting hammer? Also, just for fun, what do you think Grace was doing in Elena’s neighborhood that evening? It’s possible she isn’t the murderer, but did she hook up with Elena? They had wicked chemistry in the elevator after the Reardon party.

There have already been a couple of incidents where Grace seemed to have totally forgotten something or had a mysterious flashback. The show is either planting red herrings or they’ve tipped their hand. Obviously the kiss was designed to be caught on camera to rouse suspicion against Grace. That was a pretty clunky scene.

What has Grace completely forgotten?

*In the scene where Grace finds out about the death via text she doesn’t bat an eye. She gets the text in the middle of a therapy session, turns to her clients, smiles and starts talking about the thrill of both doing illicit things clandestinely and risking getting caught.
*In the second episode she is envisioning things that maybe she really saw and suppressed, or maybe she’s just imagining some of them- the murder scene, the son discovering his mother’s body, an earlier family moment in an apartment where the mother and two kids are alive and well. In the apartment vision/memory the murdered woman seems to be wearing the same scarf in her hair that Grace later finds in her husband’s office. She has seen the scarf before discovering it in the office.
*In the scene in the police station, where the investigators are questioning her, she seems surprised that her husband was fired, but she has one of her ear ringing, panicky moments over the fact that they obtained his “confidential” work records and they know why he was fired. Why, in the bombshell moment that she finds out that he has only been pretending to be employed, is she more concerned about the police obtaining his employment records than the fact that he was lying to her? There are flashes of her frenzied internal self whispering things while she talks to the police, and that internal dialogue seems unhealthy. Along with the times that she’s stumbling around picturing the OW naked, with her husband, or begging for her life...

My preliminary guess, 3 episodes in, is that Jonathan knows that Grace is mentally ill, killed the woman, and he is trying to protect her, or at least their son, from the truth. Or at least that is what the show is setting us up to believe in advance of another curveball.