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The show follow Jack Reacher, a guy build like a battle tank.

Where this series shine is in the hand to hand combat where Reacher shines. Reacher is a brutally efficient killing machine and this is made very clear in the show. Although the fights look cool it quickly becomes apparent that reacher is completely immune to damage. Couple that with what must described as cartoonishly dumb villains, and you must fight not to roll your eyes.

Going beyond the combat, and the shows glaring weaknesses which calls for an astounding amount of suspension of disbelief. Somehow Reacher easily figures everything out from even tiny pieces of information. Pretty much all the characters are two dimensional without any real development and there is the horribly corny dialogue.

If you're capable of ignoring the weak and shallow plot, the obvious plot armor and horribly corny dialogue then you can look forward to an action packed show that has some pretty decent combat.

It's a pretty weird mixture in my opinion and never truly commits itself to either of them.

Some would say that this is a strenght of the series; that is can encompass all three. But it can't, and it shows. Instead it becomes a series that tries too much and achieves little.

The Undoing is incredibly good at creating plot hooks, which probably is why I managed to see the whole series. That said, I found the contents of it to be quite shallow. I'm not really sure how they managed to use so much time doing so very little.

I could be misremembering here; but I also found it weird how some of the actors - especially Grace (Nicole Kidman) seemed to be easily knocked off balance - psychologically that is. That is even before her character should know anything about what could potentially have happened.

There were also strange insights to what had happened, but it was never clear who envisioned them or if it only were the audience that could see them. Generally, the series had a somewhat hazy storyline with some odd twists and turns that never really led anywhere. The ending especially was a weird twist, which didn't really make a lot of sense.

I am in the minority for sue, but The Undoing does not deserve its 7+ score.

If you liked Big Little Lies, then perhaps you will like this one as well. It must have been pretty easy for Nicole Kidman to slip into the role of Grace as she essentially had the exact same role in BLL. But where Big Little Lies at least had a coherent story, this one does not as much.

Raised by Wolf has an interesting premises. It starts by 2 androids arriving at a planet far from earth with the mission of reestablishing humankind. Those on earth had fought a massive war which eventually caused the Earth to die.

In any case, the aroids have a head start and arrives at the planet. Now they must raise their humans according to what they have been taught. This raises both very interesting question and ethical dilemmas. How do you actually raise a human?

Some time later, the supposed "winners" of the war on earth - a religious cult arrives at the scene. At this point it would've been extremely interesting to view they would interact with the first kids on the planet...

We're at this point introduced to two of the people from the religious faction. They are well made characters with very interesting backgrounds. Unfortunately they aren't used particularly well. They too would otherwise raise some ethical and moral questions.

In the end, the series ends up being a weird mess of various things. Especially the ending is exceptionally poorly made. Honestly, it didn't fit. I don't think I will view the second seasons, with how it ended and all.