The Undoing’s Fall From Grace

“The Bloody Truth” attempts to put viewers in the shoes of the inscrutable Grace Fraser , but it’s too little, too late. Photo: Niko Tavernise/HBO After watching the final episode of The Undoing, I finally realized what The Undoing was: one extended red herring disguised as a limited series.

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.

While there is a measure of cleverness in the concept of making us feel like Grace, that ending didn’t make for particularly satisfying television. No one likes to feel that they have been duped or that they wasted their time, even if eliciting that feeling serves a broader storytelling point, and that’s basically what this series did. Once The Undoing moved entirely into courtroom-drama territory, it started to lose some steam.

That conclusion turned The Undoing into a version of a revenge fantasy. It was Grace’s testimony that seemed to guarantee a conviction for Jonathan, and that was entirely Grace’s plan, one she concocted with the help of her best friend, Sylvia . There is no way the prosecutor, an old friend of Sylvia’s, could have known all those details about Grace’s private conversations with Jonathan’s mother or with Sylvia if she had not been fed the information.

Watching this is what I imagine being a Trump voter is like: the con is so obvious that you refuse to believe it. There has to be a rewrite in your mind or it’s a very unsatisfying situation. And yes, Grace was very unsympathetic.

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