![]() I'm just saying there's a particular type of person that you want to be with, and maybe you're a little too quick to see that person in the men that you meet instead of seeing what's actually there.ĭEGGANS: Given the title of this limited series, you just know that Grace is going to regret those words before long. KIDMAN: (As Grace Fraser) I'm not blaming you. UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) You're blaming me. But an attractive man comes along and shows an interest in you, and judgment begone. You did a background check on me, no doubt. NICOLE KIDMAN: (As Grace Fraser) You do background checks on your hair colorist. GRANT: (As Jonathan Fraser) Really? Well, now I'm stressed about being stressed, so thank you very much.ĭEGGANS: Kidman's Grace Fraser is the kind of therapist whose advice to her patients always winds up being a weird kind of foreshadowing, like this moment, when she criticizes a patient who's complaining about her third failed marriage. GRANT: (As Jonathan Fraser) Do I seem stressed a lot? GRANT: (As Jonathan Fraser) Beg your pardon? NOAH JUPE: (As Henry Fraser) Well, you can be joyless. It is never a good idea to take measure of ourselves through the eyes of the joyless. ![]() HUGH GRANT: (As Jonathan Fraser) Yeah, Rosenbaum (ph) - he's an unhappy man. Husband Jonathan, played with unctuous charm by Hugh Grant, is the kind of guy who shrugs off his privilege with witty, self-conscious comments even when talking to his son about an insulting music teacher. NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says the limited series, which debuts tonight, is a well-crafted modern thriller undercut by some seriously annoying issues.ĮRIC DEGGANS, BYLINE: On the surface, Nicole Kidman's Grace Fraser and her husband, Jonathan, have the perfect lives as upwardly mobile urban professionals, respected jobs as a therapist and children's cancer doctor, a kid in a prestigious private school and a sprawling townhouse in Manhattan. In HBO's new drama "The Undoing," Nicole Kidman stars as a wealthy psychotherapist who realizes her husband isn't all he claims to be.
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