The Undoing

I might have to dwell on this one a little bit more but overall I think it's pretty great. It's difficult to get into the meat of it without spoling the specific plot points or the themes that are explored throughout the season, but I think the show does a good job of driving those points home. It might disappoint people but that's always a risk when you're building a whodunnit narrative with many potential answers. The acting is great, except for maybe Kidman who just kind of whispers her way through most of the episodes wearing fancy coats on the streets of New York. Grant is fantastic and the child actors are also really good, I also really loved the black lawyer lady character. The directing is actually pretty interesting at points, especially for another crime court room drama set in New York where the main cast are super rich socialites. Nothing is mind blowing but considering the circumstances I found myself impressed by a good amount of shots and directorial choices. ||My favorite aspect of the show is that it effectively puts you into the shoes of someone actively being manipulated by a sociopath. I think that this is the goal of the show and it nails that feeling. I respect that it attempts and succeed to achieve such an interesting goal, maybe it would've been a bit more effective if the sociopath had succeeded, but then we would've been robbed of the main twist. || That was the good, now let's get into the bad. The final sequence was pretty silly and unrealistic in what's an otherwise pretty realistic show, just took me out of it a bit in crucial moments. There are a bit too many red herrings for my taste, I found myself switching suspicions every episode. But now that I typed that out, maybe that's a good thing 🤔 The show also does a classic whodunnit mistake of withholding information that should be available to us as the viewers and the lead character in order to influence our suspicions. I really personally despise when any media does, it's a cheap and unfair way to make the mystery seem more complicated than it really is, but I've only noticed one instance of this. ||This is probably my biggest issue, I just don't buy the motive of the murder. I understand what they were going for, but I just wasn't sold on this narcissist angle, and that coupled with the silly ending chase sequence left somewhat of a bad taste in my mouth at the very end.|| But now that I think about it more the more I like it. I cannot decide whether it's a 3.5 or 4 but I would recommend it either way.