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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] Ok, I’ve watched the entire series and still don’t understand how the opening song relates at all to the story. I know it’s a cover of a Mamas and Papas song (which I love) but not seeing any connection between the lyrics and images of a (presumably) young Grace, and the plot. Maybe there’s not supposed to be any connection. It just... is.[/quote]

The girl in the opening isn’t Grace, it’s Jonathan’s young sister who died under his watch. You can see boy Jonathan’s reflection in a puddle at one point in the intro.

The opening looks like a dreamy, pleasant scene that goes with the song unless you know the “reality” behind it, in which case it comes across much more tragic and sinister. The song is an old one, much older than The Mamas and the Papas.[/quote]

Nope.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/undoing-nicole-kidman-singing-opening-credits-song-dream-a-little-dream[/quote]

This was written in October when yes, as the VF writer notes, the viewer is "meant to assume" the redhead is Grace.  But just as you assume there is a twist and the murderer isn't Jonathan, you assume it's Grace but it isn't.  The ending shows it was the sister and you were fooled, just like you were fooled into thinking the murderer was the friend, or Sutherland, or Kidman herself.

Kidman doesn't want to "leave the dream world" about her relationship with Jonathan until her life is shattered, and part of that involves learning about the sister.  [/quote]

I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with you about this.  Until someone from that production says otherwise, I’m going with the little girl representing Grace.

“We’ll have to assume, then, that she’s meant to stand in for the young and innocent version of Kidman’s character, Grace. Loss of innocence is very much a theme of both the series and the credits themselves; at one point, the child’s bubble is literally burst. Series director Susanne Bier told Vanity Fair’s Still W https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/undoing-nicole-kidman-singing-opening-credits-song-dream-a-little-dream atching podcast that Grace’s fantasy world is exactly what’s undone by the events of The Undoing.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/10/undoing-nicole-kidman-singing-opening-credits-song-dream-a-little-dream[/quote]

Agree to disagree, but VF isn't contradicting anything I wrote.  The reporter is making an assumption, that isn't production making a declaration.  We agree on the song referring to the destruction of Grace's fantasy world, and we agree that the viewer was meant to assume (originally) that it was Grace who was the redhead.[/quote]

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