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98% Tomatometer 57 Reviews 92% Audience Score 500+ Ratings After 28-year-old Alma nearly dies in a car accident, she finds that she has a new relationship with time; she develops this newfound ...
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- September 13, 2019
- Hisko Hulsing
Sep 13, 2019 · Undone is an intimate examination of one woman’s personal traumas and mental state; it’s also a wild sci-fi drama. It’s a story about a family torn apart by tragedy and grief, and it’s an ...
97% Avg. Tomatometer 81 Reviews 91% Avg. Audience Score 500+ Ratings After 28-year-old Alma nearly dies in a car accident, she finds that she has a new relationship with time; she develops this...
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Sep 12, 2019 · ‘Undone’ Review: Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s Gorgeous TV Show Breaks the Mold. Amazon's genre-bending, time-breaking half-hour series is an intriguing experiment and an artistic feat....
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By Kambole Campbell
Posted: Apr 26, 2022 1:00 pm
Undone Season 2 premieres on Prime Video on April 29, 2022.
“It’s never too late to change things.” In its various journeys through time and space, Undone, the psychological sci-fi comedy created by Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy (Bojack Horseman) and directed by Hisko Hulsing, takes this statement quite literally, as its main character changes the world around her to try and heal some yet undefined emotional wounds. The prospect of genre television vaguely being “about trauma” has become cliché thanks to the phrase being overused on press circuits, but Undone is an impressive marriage of form and theme regarding its protagonist’s state of mind.
With some new help, this time around, the show’s metaphysical trips examine the festering wounds in Alma’s family tree as well as within Alma herself, doubling down on its surreal premise on a new non-linear journey that creates puzzle pieces of their personal histories. It becomes, by one character’s words, a “rabbit hole that never ends,” a fascinating and cascading series of problems and quick fixes that introduce more problems of increasingly melodramatic nature. But they’re issues fascinatingly connected to immigrant generations and, as in the previous season, deaf communities as well, and the interweaving of these different interpersonal histories through Alma’s time-tripping is still one of the show’s strongest elements.
Though the season’s latter half gets a little tied up in those various branches of the dramatic family tree, for the most part, the more soap operatic elements don’t feel so egregious alongside its naturalistic aspects. Perhaps this part of the show feels at home because of its fantastical animation, but it’s also because of how the story remains focused on the believable relationships established in the previous season. Getting the answers she was looking for, of course, does not immediately fix her life nor the problems that have festered within her family since before Alma’s father disappeared. If anything, regaining the relationships she feels has been missing places her on the outside once again, as she steps into yet another, unfamiliar new world.
The show’s experiential version of time travel is inextricably linked to Salazar’s performance of Alma’s mental health. And so in its questioning about what’s real and what’s not, Undone’s best answer is that it’s real to Alma, so it’s real. In the new season, the time travel element takes on a couple of fascinating new twists, becoming an extension of a perpetual dissatisfaction in the characters’ lives. “It’s never too late to change things” after all – the question of Undone Season 2 is the terror of rocking the boat, of the harm that the process of change can bring.
The question of whether or not Undone’s very premise is a figment of the imagination can be frustrating one, in part because of that innate desire to want things to work out for characters endeared to you, but also because of a gut reaction to wonder if any of it matters. Undone insists that it does, but also that neither Alma nor us, the viewers, can remain in the fantasy forever, something that brings about mixed feelings – though that is indeed the whole point. It’s at this point when Undone tips too far into being a life lesson rather than a story, compounded by a habit of saying its themes out loud. But, until that time, it walks the line between wish-fulfillment and therapy with enthralling momentum. It wonders about where the line lies between things that need to be fixed and things that can’t, or shouldn’t be, and worked through instead, digging down into the cause of Alma’s compulsive need to fix something, finding a solution that avoids self-reflection.
It’s “adult animation” because of its thoughtfulness and not because of strong language or violence.
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Though it occasionally leans into being too instructive and obvious about the lesson of its story, Undone is still gorgeous and idiosyncratic animation that never lets the human drama of its character study get lost in the fog.
- Kambole Campbell
Sep 13, 2019 · Undone: Season 1 Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Elizabeth Garcia But Why Tho? A Geek Community. Undone is a visual masterpiece that tackles mental health and disability through...
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