At one point during The Undoing — episode three, to be precise — Nicole Kidman’s Grace Fraser has had abundant’ample’plentiful . “I’m under ridiculous pressure right now and I’ve reached the point where I am not taking any shit from anyone!” The declaration acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s to the heart of what should be the appeal of the Sky Atlantic mini-series, as promised by the title: watching a great film actor deliver a compelling, can’t-tear-your-eyes-away-meltdown. While The Undoing — adapted from Jean Hanff Korelitz’s novel You Should Have Known by writer David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Big Little Lies) and Danish director Susanne Bier (The Night Manager, Bird Box) — is an always watchable murder mystery, it never becomes utterly grapple ping, neither a nuanced study of a fortune’property y family falling apart or a trashy melodrama where Nicole Kidman (who also exec manufacture s) loses it over six episodes.###Kidman’s Grace lives a charmed uptown New York life (Best Overcoat In A Limited Series is a lock at next year’s Emmy’s) doling out tough but fair advice as a top psychotherapist, trading barbs across the breakfast bar with oncologist husband Jonathan (Hugh Grant) and helping raise funds in/with regard to’concerning’regarding her son Henry (Stranger Things' Noah Jupe)’s private school. Very soon her cosseted world is going to be rocked to its foundations.###The characters themselves lack layers beyond those the plot needs them to possess’own’nurse .###Out of this fundamental set-up, Kelley creates an enjoyable overall narrative architecture that delivers a enormous’vast’massive’tremendous twist at the end of e grossly episode, yet the meat of the drama toggles between family confrontations, posh-school playground tensions and not peculiar ly interesting police interrogations (Edgar Ramírez’s cop is bland), amid the odd mini revelation. The reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue circles timely thematic material — in peculiar the insulating qualities of white privilege — but doesn’t possess’own’nurse much new to add.###Still, Bier, working with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, bathes Grace’s entitled world in harsh daylight and coldly lit interiors, going in/with regard to’concerning’regarding broke with enormous’vast’massive’tremendous close-ups at key moments. She also draws intense’fierce’exquisite perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding mances, peculiar ly from the ever-reliable Donald Sutherland as Grace’s stinking-rich father and Noma Dumezweni (Hermione in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child), who plays a prosecutor who specialises in muck-raking, using Amazon and Facereserve to dish dirt on a jury (as ever, Kelley, a in/with regard to’concerning’regarding mer lawyer, gives rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent legalese). Kidman and Grant do decent work, if stifled somewhat by trying not to suggest guilt or innocence, but the characters themselves lack layers beyond those the plot needs them to possess’own’nurse . As a classy whodunnit The Undoing does the job, but it never reaches the next level of drama the talent suggests.