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But no: It was Jonathan all along.

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Jonathan, the adulterer to whom all of the available evidence and basic logic pointed.

Jonathan, the guy who was described by his own mother as having zero empathy or remorse.

Jonathan, the same dude who did it in the book on which this series was based!

It was so obvious and therefore so misleading.

WhatThe Undoingwas, ahem, doing all along was distracting us from the blatant truth.

We assumed that any series with this many twists would do something unexpected in the finale.

OnceThe Undoingmoved entirely into courtroom-drama territory, it started to lose some steam.

Sundays episode, The Bloody Truth, was an hour during which any remaining heat quickly turned to vapor.

So many details in the finale defied belief.

That conclusion turnedThe Undoinginto a version of a revenge fantasy.

Put another way: A trio of white women conspired to give a terrible white man his comeuppance.

that Grace had actually killed Elena or was hiding some other crucial piece of knowledge about what happened).

But that wasnt the case.

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