James Walton

Is The Undoing properly great or just a run-of-mill thriller with a brilliant casting director?

Plus: a courageous and candid documentary from the BBC

Is it properly great or just a run-of-the-mill thriller with a brilliant casting director? Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant as Grace and Jonathan Fraser in David E. Kelley’s The Undoing. Credit: ©2020 Home Box Office, Inc. All Rights Reserved 
issue 07 November 2020

There must be some people somewhere who vaguely know their own spouses — but if so, they don’t tend to appear in domestic-based thrillers. Last week when Sky Atlantic’s The Undoing began, Jonathan and Grace Fraser (Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman) seemed to have the happiest of middle-aged marriages. They still laughed at each other’s jokes.

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