THE UNDOING Episode 1 Breakdown | Ending Explained + Spoiler Review And Theories
1,328THE UNDOING Episode 1 Breakdown | Ending Explained + Spoiler Review And Theories. We review, recap and explain the new HBO and Sky Atlantic Show The Undoing starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant.
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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show I'm your host Paul and I'm so excited to start our brand new breakdown series on The Undoing.
I just wanna get straight into it but obviously there will be heavy spoilers here so if you haven't had a chance to check out the episode yet then I highly recommend that you turn off now. Make sure you subscribe to the channel as we will be breaking down every episode week by week and you definitely don't want to miss it.
With that out the way, thanks for clicking this, now let's get into the breakdown.
The Undoing Theme Tune
Ok so the theme tune of The Undoing is Dream a little dream of me which I believe is sung by Nicole Kidman herself. I was given early access to the episode and the linear notes of it haven't been posted online yet so let me know if I'm incorrect.
Anyway the song has been clearly chosen for a reason and I believe it holds a lot of subtext to one of the central themes in the show. Now not to jump too far ahead but The Undoing is actually based heavily on the book You Should've Known. This centres around a woman's life unravelling as she discovers her husband Jonathan isn't really who she thinks he is. Jonathan becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation and we will likely follow her as she gets to the bottom of it.
I'm not gonna go much beyond that as I don't want to ruin the entirety of the show but as it's in the trailer I think it's ok to discuss how that motif is set up here.
Dream a little dream of me is of course referring to Grace played by Kidman and how she initially views her life with her husband and their son Henry. Everything seems perfect and on the surface her life is almost like a dream. The child that appears in the introduction seems to be a younger version of Grace and she even wears what appears to be a wedding dress at one point. It symbolises that in her marriage she is pretty much a child and not fully aware of the situation at hand.
Throughout this episode there is this feeling that she is almost above others and nowhere is this demonstrated more than in the therapy session that we see her giving early on in. She talks things through with a client known as Rebecca Harkness and accuses her of being unable to see men for what they really are. Because of this she has gone from marriage to marriage to marriage looking for something that she believes is there when it's revealed not to be over time. Rebecca says her husband is bi-polar, meaning that there are two sides to him and that she's unable to truly work out what's going on with him.
Now this conversation is ironic as Grace herself cannot truly see her husband for what he is and she lives almost in this bubble of idealism only accepting the version of reality that she wants to.
Jonathan pretends to be allergic to dogs to his son and she pretty much accepts this version of events even though the truth is much darker.
She even rings about hotels trying to locate him at one point and gets through to someone with his name who is a completely different person. This hammers home the duality to the character and poetically brings to life that there are two version of Jonathan that exist. Now I know Jonathan isn't literally two people and this person isn't him but the symbolism of his dichotomy is definitely there. It just shows to how oblivious Grace really is to the true nature of her marriage.
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