Boxing Clever: I’ll watch the second episode of The Undoing because there isn’t much on telly

Boxing Clever: I’ll watch the second episode of The Undoing because there isn’t much on telly

Hugh Grant and Nicole Kidman play a couple in crisis in The Undoing, created by David E. Kelley.

I’m not sure about The Undoing (Sky Atlantic, Monday 9pm and Now TV.) It’s like they spent a lot of time getting Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant onto the same show and not enough time figuring out how to make it bite. And by bite I mean that first-love paralysis you get during the first episode of a new drama, telling you not to move a metre from the couch until you’ve consumed the lot of it.

That’s not an option here, because this is old school scheduled TV stuff, instead of a bingeable box-set you’d get on Netflix. So at the end of the first episode, I felt a bit meh, which was a surprise, because it’s the same guy (David E. Kelley) who wrote the beguiling Big Little Lies, where Kidman gave one of her star turns.

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