When I first watched season 1, I found this story astounding and brilliant, such a creative concept and also a marvellous way to tell it, the animation is really unique and makes the show a true rarity.

The story in S1 is really interesting and ends up on a huge cliff-hanger.
Due to the show being very different from anything else that I have ever seen, I thought there was no way I would see a second season.

I'm glad I've been proven wrong.

So, to my full surprise we got to see more, how's season 2?

I really liked it, granted it is a bit different from the first in the way the story evolves.

We get to go deeper on the real root of the problems that this family had to go through, we learn of a stranded child, and a forgotten memory.

But eventually, even if we get to fix stuff that seemed undefeatable, some problems are unfixable, even with the power to bend time and reality to your will, and we all have to "go back and face ourselves", to bring closure to the pain we are trying to cope with.

When I ended S2E7, I thought "the show just got to a beautiful ending, it's almost too good to be true, what's left to show for another episode?"

Well, the answer was reality. Alma learns that she has to go back, back to the beginning of this season, when she still didn't know if she actually managed to give her father a second chance, back when the world seemed grim and hopeless.

She wanted to stay in the happy ending, where everything is perfect and beautiful and all her problems have never even existed, and yet she understands that she has to go back because life is not a fable and it just doesn't end with "and they all lived happily ever after.

I had the feeling the show would end with a "it was all a dream/fantasy she had while looking at the cave" kind of trope, and that would have greatly undermined the plot in my opinion. This, however, I really appreciate.

I don't know if we will ever see a third season to this, I don't even know if I really hope it does at this point, what is left to show?

Sure they can come up with something and I would be glad to once again delve deep into this wonderful story, but I feel like the story could end here and be completed.

Alma got to a point where she knows there are better alternate versions of her, versions that are more succesfull, versions that have a more cohesive family, versions where she is just happier, but she chose to go back to her reality because it's HER reality, it's her place in all this. I think she is finally ready to "start fresh" and accept herself for what she truly is.

This show gives me hope. If alternate realities exist, there sure is one where I'm better, stronger, smarter, happier. But also ones where I'm worse, weaker, dumber, unfulfilled. We have to learn to embrace our life for what it is, in the good and the bad, and everyday make it closer to our dreams instead of fantasizing on what it could have been. And even if it seems like we are living in the worse of our possible realities, eventually we will find the light that shows us purpose.

I have to first applaud and praise the amazing work, with the roto-scoping, paintings, and hard work invested into this series by a plethora of people. It truly was mesmerizing to watch from start to finish, and the visual beauty alone could lead me to recommend this show. However, even with the style, there is a substantive element that draws viewers into the mystique of Alma's mind. It involves her reconciling, learning, and accepting her father's fatal accident in a manner that was unconventional, and explicitly suggested to be supernatural. Yet, we get hints about Alma and her father's mental conditions, which help to bring doubt into whether this entire show was just a figment of Alma's mind. It's truly walking a fine line here, and even with the last episode, I am still left unsure about Alma and her experiences up to this point. In the end, I can only say that Alma arrived at an inflection point, in which she finally finds peace with herself and accepts her mental illness diagnosis, or the perceived experiences with her father actually happened. The ending captures this show completely since it's not done, which translates perfectly to "undone." There isn't a conclusive ending, and that's the best ending for this show to ever have.

I try, but without trying, and I cannot find the virtues of this series. There are interesting elements, such as the use of rotoscoping animation technique that reflects that blurred border between reality and fiction, between real performance and animated performance.

But this technical quality is built on an irregular story that, as in other recent series such as "Devs" (Hulu, 2020-), lengthens its plot using the protagonist's confusion. Of the 8 episodes, it takes 5 for the main character to understand his mission, a narrative trap that generates useless episodes.

"Undone" is a politically correct series that it wants to be politically correct, which translates into "non-white" characters, but who basically behave like "white people". This is particularly prominent in Alma, whose intention to modify the past has a certain nihilistic character, an intention that is to change what needs to be changed to suit her supposedly perfect vision of life.

The narrative game that the writers propose is quite crude, with amateur resources (the psychiatric background, the names of the protagonists ...) and with a resolution in the last two chapters that is tricky and inconsistent (the opened ending). But the packaging manages to hide the ineffectiveness of an useless story.

After a serious car crash, Alma finds she can communicate with her dead father. Her new ability helps her travel through her own and her family’s timelines to explore the relationships and events she finds. Along the way, she uncovers secrets and finds a spiritual side to herself. The entire series is filmed in rotoscope (live action but looks animated) which gives a surreal effect to the story and helps to blur reality with the spiritual and ethereal world of her memories and family’s history. If Alma can see alternative events, then maybe she can influence them and correct previous mistakes … and who wouldn’t want to do that? The series is superbly acted and scripted in a down to earth way but asks profound questions regarding one’s relationships with oneself and one’s family. Moving, funny and thoughtful. 8/10