The Undoing?

[catchnrelease]

Anyone watch that series? No spoilers here, but it certainly kept me thinking/guessing. And judging by the comments on twitter tonight (the finale), everyone else was in the same boat. Really well done. (On HBO)

[dflprincess]

1. I was guessing to the end

I really didn't expect the end. Well done.

[catchnrelease]

2. I had to laugh

Reading the twitter comments about people trying to figure it out, several joked that they guessed everyone including the baby, lol!!

[dflprincess]

5. I didn't get to the point of suspecting the baby

but I did suspect the two school boys at different times.

[Eyeball_Kid]

3. The script turned on Kidman's big scene. No spoilers, here. n/t

[Marie Marie]

4. Excellent series although I am two episodes behind. Every show had me captured.

[Heartstrings]

6. Just finished the finale...

It wasn’t predictable as so many are. David E. Kelley isn’t known for his predictability which is why he’s one of my favs.

[Bluepinky]

7. Yes, just watched the last show, what a creep the guilty party was.

Well done, I was thinking it could have been any of them.

[emmaverybo]

8. Once read a dictum on story endings--that they can feel inevitable, even if at first surprising,

not anticipated. Reader should be able to review the piece and say yes, I see. Couldn’t have been anything other. More is then revealed, there all along, with such an ending. Classic storytelling often works that way. Like coming full circle.

Admit I like that kind of story and the glossy magazine surface thing can be transporting at a time like this. Especially fun to wonder what’s beneath.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Spoiler alert

Nicole Kidman was right. Saw in interview that it was amazing how the cinematographer captured the sights/sounds/feel of NYC

IMHO. Most of the acting was hideously bad. Especially Hugh Grant (grimaced 24/7) and Nicole Kidman. Victims husband, Hugh's lawyer, and lead detective close 3rd and 4th & 5th worse. Best actor - Kidman's son and best friend.

Or maybe it was just a bad script too? The writer tried something different and didn't know quite how to pull it off. Typically there's the main person everyone thinks committed a crime ( except we know they didn't because they never do). So other suspects reveal in tiny bits why they could be the one The Undoing was the opposite - other suspects who never slowly revealed anything.
Very unsatisfying show to me. 2.5/5

[LearnedHand]

10. Just finished it and liked it a lot

Been recommending it to others. I too was guessing right through to the end. I read a very interesting review that addressed the use of that technique in this particular story. No spoilers, so you'll have to search for it outside of this thread .

On a very shallow side note: I am ashamed to admit that I ended up googling "what happened to Nicole Kidman's face." It was ... disturbing to see that the entire middle third of her face and much of her forehead was literally immobile. I assume this is from Botox or other cosmetic intervention (the google search pretty much turned up the same thing, but who knows whether that trash is trustworthy info). I loathe that "aging" women actors are held -- or hold themselves -- to such different appearance standards than men. I mean, look a grungy, wrinkle-ful Hugh Grant, gray hair and all.