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    The Dangerous Blind Spot of <em>The Undoing</em>

    The show treats domestic violence like a striptease.
    by Eve Gerber Dec 02, 2020 3 minutes
    Source: Niko Tavernise / HBO

    Updated at 9:46 p.m. ET on December 2, 2020.

    This article contains spoilers through the series finale of The Undoing.

    The Sunday finale of The Undoing was the most-watched episode of any HBO show since the last episode of Big Little Lies. is a whodunit about the murder of a woman found, by her fourth-grade son, with her décolletage displayed and her face in pieces. Sex sells, according to the old advertising adage. Clearly violence does too. And the intermingling of sex and violence is a winning formula for HBO.

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