Catching up with two episodes of The Undoing on HBO, because I've been focusing on the election. But now that America has pulled back from the precipice, it's good to be back to watching at least a little fictional drama. And The Undoing is mystery drama par excellence.
So, here's what we've learned in episodes 1.2 and 1.3: Jonathan is alive. He's Elena's baby's father. Grace is coming around to at least being open to the possibility that Jonathan didn't kill Elena. And ... she was in the area of Elena's murder the night she was so savagely killed.
That's a lot to digest. For Grace to be the murderer, she has to be a psycho par excellence -- if that phrase can be used in conjunction with a psycho. If memory serves, there's been at least one other drama -- a movie, I think -- in which the killer was not the patient the shrink was treating, but the shrink her or himself. So we now have two suspects: Jonathan and Grace.
I'll go out on an obvious limb and say I think the killer is neither. Fernando the victim's husband has the obvious motive, but police say the camera in the area has no record of his being near the scene of the crime. Is that conclusive? Probably not -- I mean, he could have gotten into the room of the crime some other way, been waiting in an apartment above where Elena was killed, right? So, no, his not being in the video footage is not conclusive. But, and, yet, I don't think he's the killer, either.
So who then? We're running out of suspects. Franklyn, Grace's father, could have done it, I guess. But does he have the physical strength? I don't know. Who's left? I can't think of anyone.
All of which makes for one good detective story. Sharply acted, with great New York flavor, including that prison room for visits, which looks like it was shot in the cafeteria of my junior high school in the Bronx, or is that just me?
See you here next week.
See also The Undoing 1.1: A Murder, A Missing Person, and NYC Bustling in the Snow
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