The first season of Undone finished with deliberate ambiguity. Throughout the first eight episodes, the Amazon Prime original walked the line between what was real and what was not, and by the end, never confirmed anything. After making contact with her dead father, Alma (Rosa Salazar) slips in and out of time trying to solve the mystery of his death. In the finale, we’re not sure if she was able to — or even if Alma was actually time traveling or if she was exhibiting symptoms of the mental illness that led to her grandmother’s institutionalization.
But in the second season, Alma now faces a new challenge. Where she once alienated her family, she now pulls more and more of them into the fold, turningUndone from an exploration of one woman’s mental health into a generation-spanning saga. The show, which comes from Bojack Horseman writer Kate Purdy and creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg, feels both the same and different. It expands the scope and tackles different issues than the first season, but ultimately builds up to a similar climatic point — and similarly ends with more questions than answers.
[Ed. note: This review contains major spoilers for Undone’s first season and slight spoilers for the second.]
While season 1 of Undone left it unclear whether the timey-wimey escapades were real or symptoms of Alma’s splintering mind, season 2 answers that immediately: It was all real, and Alma walks through a mysterious temple to another timeline, where her father, Jacob (Bob Odenkirk), is alive and her life is pretty good, all things considered. The other version of herself is a PhD candidate who helps her father in his research. Initially, it’s easy for Alma to enjoy this new life. But she slowly grows restless, and begins to
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