Anonymous wrote:It was interesting how the murder wasn't planned. Like he'd been sleeping with her for awhile, she came after him after the rejection.... and it almost seemed like he did it by accident. Weird twist.

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Anonymous wrote:Like some others on here I actually thought that Hugh Grant was pretty good in the role. Yes he is obviously too old. But I honestly had no idea whether or not he did it until the very end. He does play that bumbling English thing where he kind of looks around like “who me?” and it does make you wonder. It did seem a bit unrealistic to me that someone who is so unbelievably caring in his professional life could be such a psycho – especially when it looked like he was trying to put it on the son.

I didn’t hate Nicole Kidman in this role either. I thought she pulled it off pretty well. Also too old but she obviously looks younger because of all the surgery. The lawyers acting was outstanding as was Henry’s.

Sociopaths are excellent at compartmentalizing so they can be a caring, loving parent and spouse at home, and a sadistic murderer in their community.

Anonymous wrote:Like some others on here I actually thought that Hugh Grant was pretty good in the role. Yes he is obviously too old. But I honestly had no idea whether or not he did it until the very end. He does play that bumbling English thing where he kind of looks around like “who me?” and it does make you wonder. It did seem a bit unrealistic to me that someone who is so unbelievably caring in his professional life could be such a psycho – especially when it looked like he was trying to put it on the son.

I didn’t hate Nicole Kidman in this role either. I thought she pulled it off pretty well. Also too old but she obviously looks younger because of all the surgery. The lawyers acting was outstanding as was Henry’s.

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I disliked Hugh Grant in the role, because it seemed way too dopey “I’m just a guy, standing in front of a jury, asking them to not convict me” ala Notting Hill and Four Weddings — and he’s about 25 years to old for that to be charming, but I can see now how that fits in with his character — although, I’m still not convinced he was the best choice.

Yeah, Hugh Grant should not have been cast. He's a magnificent actor but he can't play a man in his 40s. He looks like he's in his 60s. When Grace was testifying about how they graduated college in 2002 and then got married and have been married 14 years, I was like wtf, why did they cast people this old? They should have made the timeline a lot more believable because Grant in particular is just not able to credibly portray a man that much younger.

He was not convincing as a crazy, narcissist. The scene in the car with Henry was awful acting ...nothing like Jack Nicholson could do. Now that man can play crazy! Hugh was way too much of a bumbling English idiot to pull off a highly smart and cunning narcissistic personality. He didn’t even do the charm part well either. They needed somebody more like Nicole’s husband in Big Little Lie’s. Yummy Alexander Skarsgard.

I think they cast Hugh Grant because they needed someone we could believe was innocent, and given his demeanor most of us WANTED to believe in him, giving the director the ability to guide us to root for him to be innocent. I would never believe Alexander Skarsgard was innocent, or Jack Nicholson for that matter.

You don't have to be smart, cunning, or charming to be a narcissist.

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I disliked Hugh Grant in the role, because it seemed way too dopey “I’m just a guy, standing in front of a jury, asking them to not convict me” ala Notting Hill and Four Weddings — and he’s about 25 years to old for that to be charming, but I can see now how that fits in with his character — although, I’m still not convinced he was the best choice.

Yeah, Hugh Grant should not have been cast. He's a magnificent actor but he can't play a man in his 40s. He looks like he's in his 60s. When Grace was testifying about how they graduated college in 2002 and then got married and have been married 14 years, I was like wtf, why did they cast people this old? They should have made the timeline a lot more believable because Grant in particular is just not able to credibly portray a man that much younger.

He was not convincing as a crazy, narcissist. The scene in the car with Henry was awful acting ...nothing like Jack Nicholson could do. Now that man can play crazy! Hugh was way too much of a bumbling English idiot to pull off a highly smart and cunning narcissistic personality. He didn’t even do the charm part well either. They needed somebody more like Nicole’s husband in Big Little Lie’s. Yummy Alexander Skarsgard.

I think they cast Hugh Grant because they needed someone we could believe was innocent, and given his demeanor most of us WANTED to believe in him, giving the director the ability to guide us to root for him to be innocent. I would never believe Alexander Skarsgard was innocent, or Jack Nicholson for that matter.

You don't have to be smart, cunning, or charming to be a narcissist.

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I disliked Hugh Grant in the role, because it seemed way too dopey “I’m just a guy, standing in front of a jury, asking them to not convict me” ala Notting Hill and Four Weddings — and he’s about 25 years to old for that to be charming, but I can see now how that fits in with his character — although, I’m still not convinced he was the best choice.

Yeah, Hugh Grant should not have been cast. He's a magnificent actor but he can't play a man in his 40s. He looks like he's in his 60s. When Grace was testifying about how they graduated college in 2002 and then got married and have been married 14 years, I was like wtf, why did they cast people this old? They should have made the timeline a lot more believable because Grant in particular is just not able to credibly portray a man that much younger.

He was not convincing as a crazy, narcissist. The scene in the car with Henry was awful acting ...nothing like Jack Nicholson could do. Now that man can play crazy! Hugh was way too much of a bumbling English idiot to pull off a highly smart and cunning narcissistic personality. He didn’t even do the charm part well either. They needed somebody more like Nicole’s husband in Big Little Lie’s. Yummy Alexander Skarsgard.

You don't have to be smart, cunning, or charming to be a narcissist.

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I disliked Hugh Grant in the role, because it seemed way too dopey “I’m just a guy, standing in front of a jury, asking them to not convict me” ala Notting Hill and Four Weddings — and he’s about 25 years to old for that to be charming, but I can see now how that fits in with his character — although, I’m still not convinced he was the best choice.

Yeah, Hugh Grant should not have been cast. He's a magnificent actor but he can't play a man in his 40s. He looks like he's in his 60s. When Grace was testifying about how they graduated college in 2002 and then got married and have been married 14 years, I was like wtf, why did they cast people this old? They should have made the timeline a lot more believable because Grant in particular is just not able to credibly portray a man that much younger.

He was not convincing as a crazy, narcissist. The scene in the car with Henry was awful acting ...nothing like Jack Nicholson could do. Now that man can play crazy! Hugh was way too much of a bumbling English idiot to pull off a highly smart and cunning narcissistic personality. He didn’t even do the charm part well either. They needed somebody more like Nicole’s husband in Big Little Lie’s. Yummy Alexander Skarsgard.

Anonymous wrote:I really liked it and liked the ending. Yes, I knew Grace was going to throw him under the bus -she tells her father that she’ll handle it - but didn’t know how or what she told Sylvia to tell the prosecutor.

My lingering question is this: was it all fake? Did Jonathan ever love Grace? Is he capable of love? He sees his son as his legacy but what about his marriage?

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Anonymous wrote:I am clearly the exception and liked it. The whole point was that we saw it from Grace’s perspective and she was willfully blinding herself to what he really was until the murder. It was all about the undoing of her seemingly perfect life. Too many shows go for twisted endings and they make no sense. This one toyed with you but delivered a realistic end.

I liked it too. And I actually thought Hugh Grant did a decent job of looking pretty darn evil - especially in court after Grace set him up for conviction.

The whole idea was that Grace could see everyone’s blind spots but her own - like in the counseling scenes with the third marriage lady and the abusive husband squeezing his husband’s arm.

Agree. And I think Hugh did a good enough job at convincing watchers that it wasn’t him. The turning point was clearly when he tried to pin it on the son. That just proved what an awful person and parent he truly was.