The Undoing : Episode 2

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                                                          The Undoing review – Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman start to unravel | Television | The Guardian

 Photo belongs to Warner Brothers media. The lying continues with Fraser family. But the question remains, how far will it go? I am going to do something different for this episode recap. There will be spoilers, I am going through the whole thing.

  The episode starts with the continued search for Jonathan Fraser.  He was last seen the night before by Grace.  Is there nothing to be afraid of or is he hiding out of guilt? Henry ( Noah Jupe) and Grace  make it through the first night making excuses with each other, Jonathan never shows.  

  In the morning, Grace takes Henry to school, they are met by a mob of reporters. It is revealed by Sylvia (Lily Rabe), that the husband of the murdered woman has turned himself in. 

   Grace heads to the hospital where Jonathan works. She talks to his college, who informs her,he is under strict terms not to tell her where he is. After school ends, Henry and Grace head over to her father's (Donald Sutherland) house where grace runs into the police. The police inform her, that her husband has not worked at his hospital for three months. It turned out he was fired for inappropriate touching of the woman that was murdered. 

     Later that night, while going through her husband's things, she finds a perfume that smells of the dead girl. The next day word about Jonathan has spread Jonathan. The school tells grace she is not allowed at the school anymore.  Later in the day, Grace meets Sylvia  were she reveals she was hired as Jonathan's lawyer in the sexual harassment claim. 

     A search warrant is executed on the Fraser home. The detective believes that Grace wants to help not hinder the investigation. 

     Grace and Henry head up to the cottage and, surprise, Jonathan shows up. He says the murdered woman was obsessed, and tried to destroy his life, but he did not kill her.  

 The flow of this episode was very chaotic. I suppose it did fit what the episode was trying to convey. It really felt like you never knew what was going on.

  This episode was really one that showed Kidman's acting chops. I hope that the Jonathan story line takes a turn. While I believe the melodrama has gotten better his storyline still seems stuck. I did address, what I felt was a predictability to his series, as things have gone it continues to be that way. Does that make it bad, I guess that really depends on what your watching. Here, I still think the jury is out.

 GRADE: B-

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