The Undoing: Nicole Kidman back on HBO in gripping new psychological thriller

I miss Big Little Lies, even though Meryl Streep joining Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman‘s show about desperate Monterey housewives couldn’t make season 2 as strong or addictive as the first. I’m still crossing my fingers season 3 will turn out to be more than just rumors. 

WATCH GUIDE: The Undoing

I approached The Undoing, the new HBO limited series starring Kidman, hoping for a Big Little Lies fix, and David E. Kelley‘s psychological thriller didn’t let me down. Kelley was also in charge of the BLL adaptation. Kidman repeats her role as executive producer here. There’s a murder to untangle. And like BLL, The Undoing is based on a novel, in this case, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s You Should Have Known.

In the six-episode show, which premiered Sunday, Kidman trades the coastal ruggedness of Northern California for New York’s exclusive Upper East Side. The Academy Award-winning actress plays Grace Fraser, a successful therapist and quintessential Manhattanite who has a private Pilates instructor and loves to take long meditative walks around the city. She’s married to Jonathan (Hugh Grant), a children’s oncologist. The couple has a teenage son, Henry (Noah Jupe from A Quiet Place and Honey Boy), and the kind of impeccably decorated house in the city only two doctors could afford.

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