The Undoing
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Remember how I mentioned thatThe Undoingis based on the novelYou Should Have Knownby Jean Hanff Korelitz?
Well, were totally off-book, baby!
Does that leave little interiority for Grace?
Grace is confused and then shocked and then angry and then terrified!
She is a whirlwind of emotions!
Meanwhile, her son, Henry, is nonplussed and then defensive and then relieved and then worried again!
He seems to believe his fathers innocence!
Does Grace, though?
This is bigger than you.
But how much bigger could Jonathans deceptions really get?
She doesnt know why he left his cell phone behind.
You guys fight about it all the time.
He did say he might come back earlier.
What has Jonathan normalized in this family?
He scares her three separate times!
He just sort of hovers around her during that beach-house freakout!
He shrugs her off when she walks him to school!
What she finds isnt great: Jonathan hasnt worked at Prince-Norbury Memorial Hospital in three months.
led to his firing after improper contact with a patients parent.
I love Ramirezs practically bemused delivery of You werent aware of this?
Her discovery of a bottle of perfume that matches Elenas scent in Jonathans study.
The police search of the Frasers home and collection of his hairbrush for DNA testing.
It might be too much!
The former is a master of spin, of self-effacement, of performed apologies.
He calls Elena obsessed, possessed, and crazy.
He admits to the affair, but says he lied about it to protect Grace.
He blames Elena for getting him fired but he insists that hes innocent of her murder.
But the question here is: Jonathan is a philanderer, and a manipulator, and a gaslighter.
Does that make someone a murderer?
I hope she somehow says this each episode!
Are Kelley and Bier telling us something here?
Or are they so financially secure that their salaries dont really matter in their everyday lives?
I said Eat the rich last week, and Im sticking by that!
We demand more creativity than this!
I want them all.
That little double-dab Grace uses to wipe tears away from her face?
That perfume bottle just didnt have the same impact.
Sutherlands character in the book is a notable, respected, retired attorney.
