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A very absorbing instalment, with Jonathan Fraser's lies unravelling amidst the investigation of the brutal murder of Elena Alves (Matilda De Angelis). It appears he never went to Cleveland for the medical conference, and he was terminated from his Hospital after inappropriate conduct with Elena.

New York is on major display here, with the Big Apple front and center in lies and mysteries.

Seriously, Edgar Ramirez (Detective Joe Mendoza) has a sort of resemblance to Enrico Colantoni if Enrico was hirsute.

Solid episode filled with intensty . Great performance from Nicole Kidman. Poor hugh grant he doesn't deserve that

90% of this episode was Grace behaving erratically, running around from one place to another. She looked like she was on the verge of a complete meltdown. On one hand it's understandable but on the other hand she is a psychiatrist so I expected her to be more composed and control herself. Especially since she has a son (who btw acted way better than her).

I was also disappointed with the ending of the episode. I was hoping Jonathan's disappearance would be better explained. A husband having an affair, finding his obsessive mistress dead is a bit too ordinary (or obvious?) to my liking. I guess because of all the hype I was expecting it to be more of a unique story. I was very convinced by his behavior on the first episode. He didn't seem to recognize Elena at all. In fact, the only person acting weird was Elena herself. Finding out she was his patient (or more precisely the mother of his patient) and that they had an affair is disappointing to me. Since "it's always the husband" as Sylvia repeatedly said, I was kind of expecting it for once not to be. And by that I mean, not to be a liar and a cheater. I don't believe he killed her. As of now I'm starting to think it was Grace (also too predictable). She is so erratic and with all those flashbacks it kinda make sense but either way I was hoping for something different.

I'm going to keep watching the show because I want to know what really happened there but as of now I'm thinking that some of it doesn't even make sense. For example, if Jonathan really found Elena dead then I find it hard to believe his response was to go back home, crawl into bed and sleep with his wife. And then what? Invent a conference in Cleveland, leave his phone behind, go on the run just to come back to his wife and son and say "hey you guys, I'm a liar and a cheater but not a murderer"? That's more insane than actually killing his obsessive mistress. I don't get it. What was the point of all this? I guess we'll have to wait and see. There will probably be some more twists and turns during the next few episodes but hopefully the focus would be on what really happened and not on Grace's feelings like in this episode. It was just too much.

So in the first episode we are shown that Jonathan was probably having an affair with Elena. During the second episode everything strongly suggests that Grace is the one who killed her. But because they couln't give away righ in the second episode I believe this is going to have many twists and turns like a real life crime documentary. So as far as I am concerned the killer can be the blonde lawyer, Grace's father or even their kid. If we get to the end only to find out that it was Grace who did it, the writing on this is even worse than I thought.

Unless there is a final twist, something like the husband killed her because he was jealous, we already have all the details, and not in the best way. I found the revelations heavy, too many, and disconnected from the version we had last week. Nicole is a fine actress, but her face is less expressive now, and still it doesn't convey the shock of discovering the web of lies naturally and fails to seem relatable for the audience. At times it feels like a good series gone wrong, they don't sound credible, the plot is rare, and they don't act accordingly. I didn't understand Hugh Grant's character motivations, actions, and feelings. Three months? You should have known Grace!

It feels like it's going to be a good series, but honestly the first 2 episodes reminds me so much of Big Little Lies. Nicole Kidman's character seems the same, with only some slight changes, and the setting too (a bunch of very rich parents who's social lives revolve around the school, they pretend their life is better than it actually is, and one of the parents died in mysterious circumstances). I'm really hoping it proves me wrong and ends up being different, but for now it it feels like I'm watching a spin-off of BLL.

Much better than the pilot. The show isn't great, but now I think things can start happening and the mystery can unfold. I was worried about the pilot that this was a bad Desperate Housewives or something, but thankfully they went in another direction.

The Undoing: Já Devias Saber (2020)

Series

1st Season

Episode Two - The Missing

I've seen a lot of slow series (I like it when there's character development, but here it seems like there isn't), but a mystery series in which the Flashback and the protagonist's thoughts/imagination collide is the first time, and it's not something positive.

The protagonist's attitudes are quite strange towards the police, could she be bipolar, dual personality or just a bad script?

The script wants us to strongly believe that the husbands are to blame, it gets bizarre and bad.

90% of Lily Rabe's lines are her saying that it's her husbands' fault, she's just increasing the blame on them at the same time that it seems too obvious to be her.

The protagonist's son making up excuses for his father's disappearance at the beginning of this episode was weird.

Episode two of the first season of the Miniseries The Undoing: Já Devias Saber watched on May 19, 2024.

Rating: 3/10.