It’s ironic, then, when the know-it-all therapist ends up entangled in a murder investigation because of her husband’s lies. In You Should Have Known, Grace is a respected therapist whose brusque style turns off some people but has landed her a deal for a book that addresses all these topics, in particular the way that women act in relationships. Instead, we should be considering why we accept the situations we do, and why we make certain assumptions, and why we create these false, outsize narratives in our imaginations about who we are. The book on which The Undoing is based, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s You Should Have Known, does a wonderful, layered job at probing at this idea: that as much as we want people to change, they rarely ever do, and we can’t blame them for that. And when people show us, again, who they really are, we only have ourselves to blame for not believing them the first time. Unless there is some kind of irrefutable, undeniable, absolutely certain evidence of wrongdoing, we want to believe people are innocent. Most of the time, we want to believe in some kind of intrinsic goodness in people. I personally find Jonathan detestable because of what so many other people in his life seem to be ignoring - for the millionth time, let me mention the mysteriously disappeared $500,000, the use of a conference in Cleveland as a cover story, the whole lying-all-the-time thing - but more and more, I can understand how he conned so many people so for long. I think Hugh Grant is a good, but limited, actor, and the more I see of him as Jonathan Fraser, I realize how fitting it is that he’s playing a character who is also a good, but limited, actor.
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