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I think the massive “twist” is that Jonathan was a psychopath who was able to fool his wife (and most of the audience) into thinking that he wasn’t the killer. He was under our nose all that time, with evidence pointing to him, and yet people still didn’t believe that this charming children’s doctor could have done it. The title of the source material is “You Should Have Known”, and yes, like Grace, we should have known, but we as an audience were so invested in someone else being the killer that we couldn’t see what was right in front of us. I thought it was a great character study and I’m gonna rewatch it to see Jonathan without the rose-coloured glasses.

Sounds like you misread the washroom scene with Sylvia and the prosecutor, it was not meaningless at all. That was the twist. Grace and Sylvia met early that morning for a walk and planned how to make sure Jonathan was convicted: Grace offering herself to take the stand to give the prosecutor the chance of asking the right questions. And it’s in that washroom moment Sylvia gives the prosecutor the information she needed for the cross examination of Grace, as planned with Grace. So the twist for me was Grace finally seeing her husband for who he really is and actively sabotaging his trial. We’re too used with the killer being the twist, and the beauty of the series is that we also allowed ourselves to be fooled by Jonathan’s charisma.

The ending was Nicole Kidman on the stand, “ innocently” serving her husband up as the sociopath he is. Tremendous scene. Impeccably acted and directed. I’m glad it wasn’t a woman jealous killer. That’s cliche.

I guess you missed the part where Nicole Kidman calls her best friend, the attorney, to walk with her and to do her a favor. She sends her into the ladies' room to tell the prosecuting attorney that Hugh Grant's own mother said he was without human feeling, because she realized he was a monster, she was setting him up to get caught, and that's the twist.

After his talk with the school principal , I actually thought the grandfather could be the killer . Lol

I found it very good tbh. It was so obvious that I never thought it could be him the killer. He fooled the women that loved him bringing them to think he was an emphatic caring man when at the end he was a narcissist incapable to love anyone else but himself. I spent 6 episodes wondering who killed her because I didn't want to believe he could have done that but at the end Jonathan fooled me too. Genious. I loved it

I was disappointed too but then i wondered- were they trying to show how easily manipulated we could be, just like Nicole's academic and educated character? How in the process of convincing her he didn't do it, we were also looking for other possible killers too instead of Jonathan? I am really overthinking this, but was it a commentary on how we should not be judgmental of people who fall victim to the manipulations of a narcissist/psychopath, as we all did in this show?.... But yes, I was certain the son or Sylvia were going to be revealed as the killer in a final twist.....

I agree with everything you said, but that scene in the washroom was everything BUT meaningless. Grace asked Sylvia for a favor. In the washroom Sylvia told Catherine the questions to ask Grace on the stand to basically convict Jonathan.

The scene in the bathroom is far from being meaningless. This is where they made a deal with prosecution, how could you even think it was meaningless lol

Disagree. The fact that we all had these wild theories throughout the show, with no certainty about the real killer - and yet now many are saying it was too “obvious”. What?! It was never obvious, that’s the whole point of suspecting everyone. I was gritting my teeth over Henry’s situation in those last ten minutes, and cringing for Elena in the flashbacks. They hooked me in from the first episode, forced me to theorize and (plausibly) suspect many different characters, and brought it all to a heart pounding climax - which COULD have gone many ways. Nothing was a certainty until the very last moments. Haley scolding him over that hammer was the biggest AHA moment for me. And I would’ve been disappointed in the Sylvia theory coming to fruition, because even THAT could have come across as obvious. It would have been the collective “I KNEW IT” heard ‘round the world. I say we should appreciate this for what it was. Superb acting, beautifully shot, phenomenal adaptation. All in all - an elegant, entertaining thriller that kept me speculating all the way.

I thought the ending was perfect..I re-watched Johnathan in earlier scenes and his manipulation was chilling.. living a total lie. Hugh's facial expressions and acting at the end was frightening. in my opinion of course!

I dont agree. You expected an ending what would have surprised you. While it was obvious who is the killer... What did you expect..? If you want strange twists, watch Poirot. That is a great show too.

The scene in the bathroom and Sylvia’s connection to the prosecutor wasn’t worthless. Sylvia told the persecutor about what Jon’s mom said about him and how Grace called him a narcissist so Grace could take Jon down.

Sometimes you don't need a massive unrealistic twist!

It's only disappointing if you were expecting a twist the whole series, as you said you were. I watched the series thinking it was about a wife slowly realizing she's married to a sociopath. Sure, no twist left some loose strings and red herrings, but any other ending would leave sooo much more unresolved plot points about his derangement and manipulation.

I completely disagree. The ending was very good. It finally revealed how much of a psychopath he really was. The title of the book is "You Should Have Known."

The Undoing is about undoing of a marriage, a persona and a murder trial. Who done it is just part of the story, the tool to reveal the characters' true selves. The core message is about how people can be so blinded and under the spell of a covet narcissist. The murderer has to be Hugh Grant's character because that is why Grace's marriage has been undone.

I felt like the ending was very underwhelming. It's like all the stress and intrigues from the other episodes didn't matter, and there was no real mystery at all. I was expecting some sort of twist.. i guess having no twist was a twist in itself, but not what i was wanting lol. Nicole Kidman and her coats did it for me though. She is stunning

I also thought that had Grace not given her account in court, her husband Jonathan would’ve gotten off as innocent. So, that for me was the catharsis.

I think that your ending is incredibly contrived and far-fetched. A supposed mistress murdering the new and younger side dish? I thought that the ending was a twist as most people probably assumed that Hugh Grant was innocent all along. I thought that the killer was either Grace or her father and was surprised that it was indeed the husband. I agree that the chase scene was ridiculous and rushed but it was one of the best short series that I have seen in a very long time.

Perfect ending for me!! It means that the whole story was about seducing us - as viewers - to believe that it could be someone else. As you explained in your reasoning here. But, it was him the whole time and that's perfect. The point is that she realised that and decided to give him in. That was great. She decided that for all of us.

I absolutely loved the ending, and completely disagree. Also, Sylvia not telling Grace about Johnathan hiring her is attorney client privilege, not shady on her, it's entirely shady on him....

He literally smashes a hammer into his lover's skull, idt it's out of character for a sociopath to run once cornered.

I liked the ending. Enough already with 'clever endings', this rang true to me.

I was hoping that Elena wasn’t actually the body and she was still alive. The face was pretty much unrecognisable. I felt like the show hinted that something more was going on, ultimately was very 2 dimensional, which annoyed me as it didn’t need 6 episodes to reveal something that was assumed in episode 1.

The ending was horrible. It totally seemed melodramatic. His lawyer should get an Emmy nomination though for sure.

I think they portrayed how insidious people with NPD actually are really well. Having a twist ending would have been more infuriating for me. Grace having the narcissist in her life end up in prison would been the happiest possible ending if this were based on real life.

I loved your alternate ending. However I think the point of the story and series (for me) was to show the depth of cunning of a true Narcissist. So masterful was his charming public face, that even his phycologist wife was deceived by his facade... till finally she realised who he really was. I really loved how the bridge jump attempt was really just another manipulation attempt, to get what he thought was a sympathetic running embrace from Grace, only to find that both Grace and Henry have finally turned their backs on him. The last expression of a narcissist scorned, I thought was perfect. He never truely loved his wife and child, only loved their adoration of him.

Your suggestion sound more like a regular detective story, instead this show was psychological more profound, It was a bout how a narcissist psychopaths can manipulate people and how they are able to have a double life without us noticing, the enduing was perfect

Is this video for real? Sylvia being the killer would have been so freaking obvious, and making her the bitter jealous lover is such an overused and boring trope. Almost everyone on Twitter was predicting it was her.

Oh my goodness, those were exactly my thoughts. Thanks for making this video, it really helped organizing my thoughts on the mini series.

I was 100% hoping that the friend would be the real killer as well. Why would Lily Rabe take this role otherwise? What is she even really doing in the show?

Omg I have missed you! Every day I check for the videos.

The ending was like a magic trick where something disappears in a spectacular fashion, there is great misdirection throughout and at the moment we are ready and anticipating a great reappearance the magician says "it was in my pocket the whole time".

No kidding! My response, too. What I posted yesterday. It was Little Red Riding Hood disguised as a chick flick. One episode of getting ready. Four episodes of the woods. One episode of escaping to find the woodcutter masquerading as police vehicles. Great acting did not save this story.

The ending made sense for effect they were going for in the movie. I too was disappointed when I didn't get a big twist ending. But the whole point of the show wasn’t to have a shock ending. It was to make audience wonder what it would be like to be married to a narcissist and someone capable of murder. Even during the show, I felt sympathetic and sorry for husband, which is the effect narcissists ultimately have. They are so likable so of course we would look at other people. Show was effective in that it put us under same spell as wife. We wanted it to be someone else and deep down we questioned whether he did it.

I thought it was Sylvia as well for the same reasons that you stated. Also in episode one, when Grace is in the middle of a session and her phone rings with a text from the school, all it says is something about a tragedy, not who in fact was killed. moments later, Sylvia calls and specifically says it was Elena that got killed. When Grace questions how she knows this, Sylvia quickly states she knew from the text the school sent out....but we had just seen the text did not say that and Grace had read the text but did not know it was Elena until she was told which confirms it was not in that text. Right there, that gave away that she was the killer but somehow that did not end up happening. Also, I see absolutely no point in mentioning a second affair but not saying who it was unless it was Sylvia... yet it wasn't. I think since we are told to be searching for clues everything should've been more intentional. Hope that alll makes sense

Your ending made some wild leaps that would have been horrendous.

i felt the same way? like why have lily rabe at all if she wasn't gonna kill

I honestly thought that Grace suffered from dissociative identity disorder and that one of her multiple personalities murdered Elena. Like that would’ve been a crazy plot twist in my opinion

Yeah, I just finished watching this series and somehow the ending didn't quite lived up to how good the whole series was.

Liked it just the way it was. David Kelly is a cinematic genius. I love everything he does. I was riveted.

You’re alive! I’m so happy

You are COMPLETELY right in your thought process. I thought from Episode 2 that it was Sylvia and was disappointed it ended the way it did.

Sometimes it simply doesn't need a big twist in the end. I was hoping that it did not go too cheesy and I was satisfied. Good ending

The signs of a narcissist and master manipulator were there; for me the confirmation was the Skype call with his mother.

Sylvia???!!! First, the "one other affair" was a lie. He probably had multiple affairs during the entire marriage. Sylvia is the last person that would have made sense as the killer. The only other possible, and by possible I mean not really, other people that might have made sense as the killer would have been her son or her father. However, from the moment her husband saw Elena at the party, and was so completely unfazed and unaffected, I knew he was a sociopath. If you weren't 99% sure he was the killer, from the first episode, you weren't paying attention. They threw in just enough curveballs and red herrings to make you doubt and make the rather obvious ending exciting. Overall excellent show, that ended the way it was supposed to.

It's on us, the viewers, for projecting more onto this show than it ever was supposed to be. I didn't consider this a murder mystery until I saw others online talking about it as one. Would it have been more fun if it was more like what you're describing? Hell yes.

I like your take on this. I actually thought it would be Grace that turned out to be the killer. There were parts in the beginning where she seemed “off” and some of the flashbacks made me think that Grace and Elena were in a romantic relationship. The end would reveal that Grace had a mental breakdown after finding out her husband cheated on her which made her kill Elena and since Grace is losing her mind, she forgot she did it.

My cathartic reaction, not my expectations, has been subverted by this series finale. I was disappointed with the ending... but not because of Johnathan’s “big red flag” guilt. To my eye, he was clearly a narcissist & the murderer. The suspense hung on the ethical conundra & potential reactions of those caught up in his horrible acts. It wasn’t the somewhat unclear point of law used to finally bring him to justice for all his deceitful actions, as well as his violent crime of murder. It was the implausibly melodramatic helicopter chase. I almost wondered if it was some fantastical delusion in Grace’s unreliable narrative. It almost made it impossible to see that Hugh Grant was actually acting (usually, he’s just a type-cast nebbishy charming Brit-guy) well. Given the jarring stylistic break with the rest of the series... it almost seems possible he could’ve been “sharknado-ed” off the bridge while Grace & Henry did a “walk away from the explosion” final freeze-frame. Ugh. Grace won a Pyrrhic victory to take him down. He shattered their lives, indelibly traumatized Henry & Miguel, destroyed her professional & personal credibility... there needed to be some scene to address that finding him guilty isn’t enough.

Your second ending was exactly what I thought was going to happen and I was so mad it didn’t

I predicted Sylvia to be the murderer as well for exactly the same reason as you mentioned. I thought I was good at predicting twists but alas this one got me.

My cousin discussed the possibility of Sylvia! Well done and it would have been a great twist 👍

Clever! I bought it. Thanks, I like your ending much better.

I agree with you. Love your ideas.

What if Sylvia is the killer, but he still went to prison? Maybe he started to belive that he killed her, since he could be somehow emotionally distressed?

My only issue with this video is the thing with Sylvia and the prosecutor. While it was stated that knew each other, I think that it was deeper than that. I believe that they were romantically involved but something happened to drive them apart. It would make sense with the awkwardness in the courtroom but paid off when they were in the bathroom. I also think that Sylvia was there for Grace the way that she was due to her having feelings for Grace. I wanted Sylvia to be the killer too but for a completely different reason. It could have been her way of protecting Grace.

I liked the ending - the show was more about the things we sometimes don't know about our closest ones. Hugh was GREAT in this role and if he were innocent, it would not have such an impact......

Incredible the care they took superbly crafting suspense elements and then dropped a BIG "Nah, never mind." So happy to hear I wasn't the only one that felt not only ripped off but even pissed off!

This was the problem with GoT, looking for the big twist and surprise ending ruined that show. I thought the ending was good. It just seemed a little rushed in the end.

I think that's the point of this show. Is to show us that all of our "theories" are just insane ideas we've created from our experience watching TV. The truth was always there and we just ignored the signs. My man was lying for years, cheating for years, etc. In my craziest mind, I thought she wasn't really dead and that she had a body double. She seemed weird. But the truth is he killed a weird girl. Simple works. I'm gonna go rewatch for missed clues!

I’d just like to point out yet another outstanding performance by Nicole Kidman. She is seriously a phenomenal actress.

I feel like they were leading a path to the wife she was super guarded about her feelings.

I think it would have been rather cooler had her father somehow been on it too. Maybe helped cover it up or something. Definitely darker and Freudian.

Now "Dr Jackal and Mr Hyde" is an inventive adaptation I could get behind! 2:18

I don't understand those that say we didn't suspect Jonathan to be the killer cause he was charming. Like wtf the dude was an asshole that had no charm about him, he took advantage of his job as a doctor which is sickening and he was a pathological liar, kept lying about him being fired, about his infedelity, about his past. I hated his character and was stunned when Grace foolishly decided to bail him out. The only thing that kept the viewers not suspecting him was that it would've been too obvious and that we were continuously being fed all kinds of clues that were throwing us out and that's all to it.

I don't know about the book, but the show really went in hard with the thing about John being "responsible" for his sister's death and being an un-remorseful sociopath, which was a complete crock. He was a kid and was making a sandwich, not drinking with friends or pushing her into traffic; he was definitely not negligent and she could have just as easily snuck out while the parents were making dinner. I felt his mother was lying to frame him because she still (wrongly) blamed him. 😒

So agree! And also thought was going to end with Sylvia as the murderer. Ending was so bad.

Disagree: How about fooling the audience (who read the book) into thinking it was someone else through the artifice of narrative misdirection? Grace's kiss, the walk, the phone calls, the painting...the mallet in Henry's violin case, Franklin's nighttime survey of the victim's apt? if you can introduce just reasonable doubt to someone who has already read the book, that's successful writing. This wasn't about who could've killed her. It was about who could best charm their way out of making us think they couldn't do it, despite evidence to the contrary.

A possible review of the dune Graphic novel in the near future?

I get what you mean but the scene in the washroom wasn’t pointless, Nicole Kidman previously asked Lily Rabe’s character to do something for her - it was Nicole that made the washroom scene happen, that’s an important part of the story because it proves even more than Nicole knew exactly what she was doing/planning by going up on the stand :)

i was waiting for episode 7 =D

Totally agree!

I totally, totally, totally agree!!! Nice for the confirmation coz I thought the same.

the biggest plot point that you missed while trying to make it a twist ending is that the murder weapon was found in the lakehouse which Sylvia couldn't have accessed.

I thought the killer should have been Grace and the whole trial was a set up to make sure Jonathan was found guilty. All of her visions of Elena’s death in the first few episodes would have been actual visions

It's well executed cause you'll keep on guessing who the killer is. But highlighting the use of psychology to determine a psychotic person is remarkable. I mean Grace never observe her husband to be but the details she got aftet talking to his mom was compelling.

You missed a huge plot point with Catherine (the prosecuter) and Sylvia. The reason why Catherine knew to ask Grace the questions that showed Jonathon was a psychopath was because of her connection to Sylvia. When Grace asked Sylvia to meet her for walk, she gave her that information so she could feed it to the prosecution. And personally, I liked the ending. I liked that the whole time, the audience really believed that Jonathon was innocent (and that it could have been Grace, her father, or even Henry) but it turned out that he actually did it.

I love your whole "Sylvia " angle- perfect

spot on. I thought that too.

This is not David E Kelley’s week. First the whole controversy with Big sky and using sex trafficking as entertainment and now this ending to a show that was so good until the finale

"and there is another meaningless scene with them in the washroom" You are clearly not that bright.

I actually really appreciated the rather sudden unraveling that took place as Jonathan's character was revealed to be a sociopath, as well as the constant question of "is he or isn't he the killer"? It was superb how until the very moment it's revealed through that scene where we see him actually admit he did it to Henry, there's this lingering doubt as to whether or not it was really him. As Grace's character had largely been associated with the flashbacks, there's real doubt as to whether or not the scene of Jonathan killing Elena is even real at first. That's the beauty of the story: a depiction of people's tendency toward self-deception when faced with a truth that is overwhelming and/or unfavorable.

I didn't dislike the ending as much as everyone did, but your alternative version is simply amazing

Thank you for this!!! You are not alone Amazing show with a sad ass ending☹️ The reason Sylvia would’ve been a good killer is because the show did a good job of making you think there were other viable suspects throughout the show, I thought Grace was sleepwalking and was the killer, I thought the son or grandfather or Sylvia did it at some point as well. But the last ep seemed slow and rushed at the same time, I’m disappointed

I think you're nuts, and I think the ending was perfect.

i havent started this show yet....should i? Sounds like many folks arent happy about the ending. Also when is your mandalorian ep 5 video coming out? And have you checked out His dark materials? Its a great show!!

I really like your ending!

I like your ending and as you say I can think of one for Franklin (Jack Nicholson ending is a great fit) how did he know where Elena lived? Grace as dissociative, and Fernando with Sylvia's comment as foreshadowing (why did he follow Grace around?). Like Grace I had confirmation bias and was sure it can't be the most obvious suspect. In the murder flashback I was positive Johnathan was going to leave with Elena being alive only to be killed latter by someone else. So it was a surprise ending for me.

You did not understand the ending. The show was not a whodunit kinda show, it was about confirmation bias, they even drop the concept in the middle of the episode. We, the audience, wouldn't accept the obvious answer because we're used about fiction having plot twists, exactly like Grace wouldn't accept his husband being a sociopath. I personally loved the ending, they keep you guessing until the very fucking end. The chase scene, while not perfect I agree, looked to me like it was Jonathan desperately trying to make his son confess for the murder, but no, it was still him.

I love it. You should write a script!!!

Admittedly, your idea is pretty good and well laid out, but it's the second-best idea. The best idea is the killer being Hugh Grant : the twist is there is no twist (not exactly); we all expected it to turn out to be someone unexpected. There were so many clues pointing to so many people, and then, of course, it was, actually him all the while - the least likely choice in a way, and yet, the obvious one. I thought the ending redeemed the show

I literally came up with the exact same ending while watching with friends. Before the finale we discussed who we thought it was and I said your exact alternate ending. I even said her daughter was the child of the husband from the affair.

If Sylvia turned out to be the murderer, it would have turned this brilliant character study into a B-level whodunit that’s been done to bits. I’m very happy with the ending we got. I think people had a different expectation going into the series and that’s more of a marketing fail than a failure of the series itself.

If everyone thought there was this great unexpected twist and there’s not.....that’s a pretty great unexpected twist. If the show ended just as you expected, that’s not good.

Spot on, i was also leaning towards Silvia, for the same reasons, or maybe the grandfather, though that made a little less sense. Have not read the book, but it was so obvious who the killer would be, i was almost expecting a twist. Also agree that the ending was too rushed.

I felt the same, the ending was a big let down, it should’ve been someone else who is the actual killer even if John was convicted. Also I felt it was crazy for John to forget all the DNA and take the murder weapon and not to dispose it? If someone planted it there to blame him, that makes sense

I have been fostering this same idea about Sylvia - nearly verbatim to what he says in the video. Miniseries are like shaggy-dog jokes - the longer they run on, the better the punchline needs to be to justify the long set up. THE UNDOING is 2 hours of story jammed into a 6-hour bag. WTF? Very unsatisfying. The book was from the POV of GRACE (the Kidman character) which you can sustain in a book but when you have multiple perspectives as you need in a long cinematic treatment. It became increasingly hard to care about Grace (as the protagonist) when we KNOW she KNOWS that her husband fucked another woman with whom he has a baby - THEN returned to the scene of the bang to see her brutally beaten to death - ANDTHEN came home to fuck HER! And she, an intelligent, educated adult woman, was OKAY WITH THAT so long as he wasn't the murderer? Who can care about a character that passive? SO much filler that was ONLY there for misdirection. WHY would he keep the hammer and not throw the hammer in the lake, let alone carry it around and HIDE it complete with her blood and his DNA and prints? He had DAYS to sort this out. LUCKY that the boy happened to find it, and didn't just toss it himself. "Yeah, I'm just a 14-year-old boy with only three of us in this big lake house RUNNING THE DISHWASHER TWICE FOR NOT REASON." ALL pointless misdirections along with Grace conveniently wandering past the murder scene. Conveniently, no one ever asked Johnathan how long he was gone between fucking the girlfriend and returning to find her dead - or where he went... or why he left and returned... There are countless instances where demanding the answer to a few simple questions would topple this like Jenga tower. The 'twist' of Grace hanging him during cross-examination was a lame effort to copy the classic WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - instead, we got WITLESS FOR THE PROSECUTION. A lawyer informed me there IS no law that says a wife cannot testify against her husband - hell yeah, she can if she knows he is guilty. But she cannot be COMPELLED BY LAW to testify against him. Grace could have just said, "yeah, he fucking killed her" game over. The only thing retrospectively interesting about this is how they managed to snowball us for 6 hours only to give us the lame ending of a Lifetime Movie.

Hey, I was just glad to see the old Rondout creek Bridge is still standing. Port Ewen for life!