What happens to a marriage counsellor's certainty when her own household stops making sense? The Undoing, a 2020 American series credited to David E. Kelley, builds a crime mystery around that question, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant heading the cast.
What is The Undoing about?
Grace Fraser has the kind of New York life that looks finished from the outside. Her therapy practice is thriving, her first book is weeks away from reaching shops, her husband appears devoted, and their young son attends one of the city's most exclusive private schools. Then a violent death shakes the circle of parents around that school, and almost at once her husband cannot be found. Each new piece of information contradicts something Grace believed about the man she married. The series follows her as she tries to protect her child, answer questions she never expected to be asked, and work out how much of her own judgement, the very skill she sells to her patients, can still be trusted.
About the cast
Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant lead the ensemble, joined by Edgar Ramírez, Noah Jupe, Lily Rabe, Matilda De Angelis, Ismael Cruz Córdova and Donald Sutherland. The drama leans heavily on close, conversational scenes rather than spectacle, so much of the tension rests on how these actors hold a look or dodge a question.
Context & significance
The Undoing sits where three genres meet: crime, drama and mystery. Its setting is wealthy Manhattan, a world of school fundraisers, consulting rooms and expensive apartments, and the story uses that polish as a contrast to the violence that interrupts it. Episodes run about 55 minutes each, long enough for the plot to turn more than once per instalment. Rather than following detectives, the series stays with the family under suspicion, which makes it as much a study of trust inside a marriage as an investigation. The show was made in the United States and released in 2020.
Watching The Undoing on Ktime
The Undoing is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so it can be followed in Farsi or in the original English. Reading this page is open to everyone; playing the episodes requires signing in to a K-Time account. The service is built for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, with a Farsi interface on television, phone and web.