Undone
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Undone |
| Original title | Undone |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2019 |
| Production company |
The Tornante Company, Boxer vs. Raptor, Submarine, Minnow Mountain |
| length | 22-24 minutes |
| Episodes | 8+ in 1+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Dramedy , science fiction |
| Director | Hisko Hulsing |
| idea |
Kate Purdy , Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| production | Kate Purdy, Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| music | Arnie Doherty |
| Initial release | 13 Sep 2019 (USA) on Prime Video |
First publication in German |
13 Sep 2019 on Prime Video |
| occupation | |
Undone (English for undo is) an American , with rotoscoping animated dramedy - television series by Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg that on September 13, 2019. Prime video was released. In November 2019 it was extended for a second season.
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Alma Winograd-Diaz, who has a Mexican indigenous background on her mother's side , suffered hearing loss at the age of 3 and has had a cochlear implant since she was 9 years old . Her paternal grandmother had schizophrenia and her father, a theoretical physics professor who researched time travel , died with a student in a car accident when Alma was little.
After her sister Becca's engagement party, Alma has a car accident after an argument with her and ends up in the hospital. After she wakes up from a coma, she can see her dead father and learns from him her ability to shift the timeline to travel to the evening of his death and prevent it. He cannot remember anything before the accident and does not know how it happened. Together with her friend Sam, she investigates who could have murdered her father, but when she manages to jump to Halloween evening after Becca's wedding, Alma and her father discover that he killed himself and the student Farnaz. He changes the action by avoiding the triggering situation this time.
In the end, it remains to be seen whether this will bring her father back in the present and whether everything really happened or was conceited by Alma's mental illness.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization is created for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Matthias Lange by the synchronous company Scala Media Studios.
main actor
| role | description | consequences | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma Winograd-Diaz | Protagonist | 1-8 | Rosa Salazar | Anja Stadlober |
| 2, 5-8 | young: Luna-Marie Katich | Marlene Schick | ||
| 4, 5 | 3 years: Kristalyn Ibarra | |||
| Becca Winograd-Diaz | Alma's sister | 1-4, 6-8 | Angelique Cabral | Natascha Geisler |
| 2, 5, 6, 8 | young: Giorgie Luck Vasquez | Nele Richter | ||
| Camila Diaz | Alma's and Becca's mother | 1-8 | Constance Marie | Iris Artajo |
| Jacob Winograd | Alma's and Becca's father | 1-8 | Bob Odenkirk | Michael Pan |
| Sam (Sanjeev) | Alma's significant other | 1-8 | Siddharth Dhananjay | Konrad Bösherz |
| Tunde | Alma's preschool boss | 1-6, 8 | Daveed Diggs | Rainer Fritzsche |
supporting cast
| role | description | consequences | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reed Hollingsworth | Becca's fiance | 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 | Kevin Bigley | Bastian Sierich |
| Beth Hollingsworth | Reed's mother | 1, 2, 6, 7 | Jeanne Tripplehorn | Anke Reitzenstein |
| Layton Hollingsworth | Reed's father | 1, 2, 7 | John Corbett | Thomas Nero Wolff |
| Thomas | barkeeper | 1, 4 | Nicholas Gonzalez | Leonhard Mahlich |
| Miguel | Father of the Church | 1, 6, 8 | Tyler Posey | Sebastian Kluckert |
| Farnaz | Jacob's student | 3 - 5, 7, 8 | Sheila Vand | Damineh Hojat |
| Charlie Banderhorn | Jacobs sponsor | 4, 6, 7 | Brad Hall | Ronald Nitschke |
| Cassie | Preschoolers | 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 | Nova Snow Reed | Nele Zech |
| Oliver | 1, 3, 4, 7 | Percy Daggs IV | Emile Ismailov Chiriac |
Episode list
| No. | German title | Original title | First published in the USA | German language first publication (D) | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The accident | The crash | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Kate Purdy & Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| Alma and her sister celebrate their engagement in a bar. After dinner for the engaged couple, Alma separates from her boyfriend Sam, although she tells him beforehand that she loves him because she does not want to settle down. When Alma and Becca drink again in the bar, they then take the bartender Tomas home with them and Becca sleeps with him, for which she blames Alma the following day. Excited, she then has a car accident when she suddenly sees her dead father in front of her. | ||||||
| 2 | The hospital | The Hospital | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Kate Purdy & Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| At the hospital, Alma remembers the night her father died on Halloween: he had taken her to collect sweets, but left her standing after a call from work. When a police officer brought Alma home that morning, she learned that her father was not back.
After waking from a two week coma, she can't remember breaking up with Sam, and her perception of visiting loved ones is surreal, not chronological and repetitive like a time warp. Her father explains to her that the accident changed her temporal understanding and gave her the ability to no longer see things in a linear fashion. He wants to develop her skills so that she can help him change the course of things. |
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| 3 | Blackjack trouser pockets | Handheld blackjack | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Kate Purdy & Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| When Alma returns home, she notices that the pictures hang differently and later that the sofa is different. Through her new perception she sees more things and in turn misses periods of time that are overwhelming for her. Her preschool boss is worried that she'll be ready to go back to work. Her father shows her a memory of giving a lecture on time travel and showing a student his research. As an anchor in the physical world, he gives her a game of "Pocket Blackjack " from a box in her mother's attic with her father's things and about the accident. At night she takes these boxes to her home to investigate who could have murdered him. | ||||||
| 4th | Move the keys | Moving The Keys | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Kate Purdy & Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
| Her father gives Alma the job of moving keys by jumping to a time when they are not there. Alma's mother is upset that she has taken these things out of her house and tells her to see a psychiatrist. She gives Alma a prescription for pills, which she does not redeem. So when she visits her mother takes the recipe. In the bar, Alma and Sam meet Becca and her fiancé Reed, and Sam realizes that Becca slept with the barman; for his silence, she points out to him his lie to Alma that he is hiding from her that she has separated from him. Alma suspects Farnaz's boyfriend at the time ("The friend is always the culprit."), But her father says they were murdered because of his research. He shows her his research sponsor Charlie Banderhorn of American Freedom Corp and claims he did it. When her mother brings Alma the pills, the excitement over them eventually leads her to relive the memory of her breakup with Sam. | ||||||
| 5 | With that alone (you have me) | Alone In This (You Have Me) | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Kate Purdy |
| Alma's father shows her the memory of a visit to the family at Baño del Rey , where they met a Nahua priest. This gave her father the idea to look at the cerebral ventricles of shamans and patients with schizophrenia , but he assures Alma that he had not carried out any experiments on her. Also, Alma confronts Sam with his lie; she feels it is a breach of trust that he has played to her that they are still together. He defends himself that he has adapted to the circumstances and wanted to create a stable environment. She sees memories from her and Sam's childhood and is no longer mad at him because he is the only one who understands her. Against her father's wishes, she tells Sam that he appears to her. | ||||||
| 6th | Prayers and visions | Prayers and Visions | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Lauren Otero |
| Alma's mother receives the honor of lighting the Easter candle from the Father of the Church and tells him that Alma does not take her pills. While doing their research, Alma and Sam find out that there was a break-in at their father's laboratory the night of the accident. When they speak to Campus Security, Alma senses that they too have suffered a family loss and is able to convince them to give them documents about the break-in. You can find a list of people interviewed by Farnaz's friend Darrold, who blames her father. After the Easter candle ceremony, Father Miguel Alma speaks about the pills. When she says she is fine, he takes her side, and her mother feels betrayed because he doesn't know how bad things really are for Alma. The next day, Alma and Sam receive an email from Banderhorn's Global Creaton Associates and Alma wants to meet with him, but Sam is skeptical that this is a good idea. | ||||||
| 7th | The wedding | The Wedding | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Joanna Calo |
| On the day of Becca and Reed's wedding, Alma meets Charlie Banderhorn under the code name Amber, but when she asks about her father, he realizes who she really is. Charlie assures her that her father's research has been useless and that she will not find the answer she was looking for. As a result of this meeting, she is late for an appointment with Becca and in an argument with her she shouts that she has cheated on her fiancé. She manages to jump back in time and correct her mistake. Her father brings her to the moment of his accident, but she cannot hold onto there. Alma visits a Bar Mitzvah in the same hotel as the wedding, where Nahuas perform a traditional dance. When she imitates the dance with her preschoolers, she sees Halloween evening in the mirror and jumps through it. | ||||||
| 8th | The Halloween evening | The Halloween Night | 13 Sep 2019 | 13 Sep 2019 | Hisko Hulsing | Elijah Aron |
| Alma and her father end up at the moment he left them after the call they received. At the laboratory, they see that it was Alma's mother who broke in to look for Alma because her father carried out experiments on her. She breaks up with him and Farnaz wants to report him to the dean about his illegal activities, but he convinces her to drive her home first. Alma's father tries to prevent her from looking at these memories, which are also new to him and which are troubling him, but Alma forces him to stick with them. As you drive, you see that he and Farnaz committed suicide. Alma and her father jump to the moment he left them; he takes control of the old self and ignores Farnaz's call. Alma wakes up from her collision with the mirror. From home, against the opposition of Sam and her mother, she drives to Baño del Rey, where she expects her father to come back from a cave. Becca, who has fled Reed, flies after her and waits with Alma until the next morning, but her father has not come. When Alma is alone again, the sun rises and she seems to see something. | ||||||
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Production and animation
Undone comes from a team behind the animated series BoJack Horseman : its creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg and writer Kate Purdy, who won an episode with a Writers Guild of America Award . Episode writers Joanna Calo and Elijah Aron (who made a cameo on Halloween Eve ) also wrote for BoJack Horseman . Bob-Waksberg already worked for Tuca & Bertie with the production company Tornante Company in 2019 . The rotoscopic animation took place in the Texan studio Minnow Mountain and the painting in the Dutch studio Submarine , where director Hisko Hulsing, known for Cobain: Montage of Heck , led the animation team. Producer Tommy Polotta has already worked with rotoscopy technology for the films Waking Life and A Scanner Darkly .
When writing, Purdy and Bob-Waksberg's Undone was initially planned as live action , but they then decided animation would be a better fit, distorting reality. For this purpose, Hulsing suggested the rotoscopy technique, with which one could record everything in terms of the smallest expression and emotionality in the performance of the actors. Undone is the first half-hour animation series for Amazon and the first completely animated series with rotoscopy. The backgrounds were painted in oil paint.
Background of the figures
The setting, San Antonio , which was Purdy's hometown, has a 60% Hispanic stake , so Purdy felt that this representation was necessary. Actresses Salazar, Marie and Cabral talked about the importance of a series that shows three Latin American women in leading roles, with no focus on their origins. Purdy learned most of the shamanistic teachings listed from a friend with a Toltec , Aztec, and Mayan background. The team also worked with indigenous culture advisors and a shaman from central Mexico during the shoot.
Alma's struggle with mental illness also comes from Purdy, who struggled with some of them and wanted to express her experiences on the series: “In 2012 I had a nervous breakdown and struggled with depression and anxiety and didn't know what to do about it. […] There is a history of mental illness in my family and I was always afraid of losing my mind. ”Her grandmother Geraldine - as Almas is also called - had schizophrenia, and Purdy discovered alternative cures and therapies while dealing with mental illness met with shamans around the world: As a result, she sees our world and our attitude to mental health in a new light.
Festival screenings
The first two episodes were shown in advance at the ATX Festival in Austin, Texas in June and at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July .
reception
Undone is unanimously received and rated extremely positively. At the IMDb it achieved a rating of 8.3; at rotten tomatoes a critics rating of 100% positive votes with an average of 8.25 / 10 points and a viewer rating of 96%; Metacritic calculates a value of 89% from 12 positive reviews.
The series is praised by the critics especially for the animation and images, for the story and character depth, both in combination. Ben Travers of Indiewire writes that animation and script complement each other to create a new, unique form of television. Many critics see the series at the top in terms of quality: For Allison Shoemaker of rogerebert.com it is the "perfect marriage between story and style" and "Amazon's best series, either because of its technical achievements or its narrative power"; USA Today's Kelly Lawler , who awards four stars out of four, best new series this fall. TV Guide's Liam Matthews thinks it's "one of the best shows of the year, an extraordinary combination of style and substance" and Judy Berman for Time calls it "the perfect sci-fi series for 2019".
Web links
- Undone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Undone on Prime Video
- Undone at Rotten Tomatoes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jake Kanter: 'Undone' Renewed For Season 2 By Amazon As Co-Creator Kate Purdy Inks Overall Deal . In: Deadline . November 21, 2019. Accessed March 18, 2020.
- ↑ a b Lesley Goldberg: Amazon Orders Animated Comedy Series From 'BoJack Horseman' Creator . In: Hollywood Reporter . March 6, 2018. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Tony Maglio: Raphael Bob-Waksberg's 'Undone' Trailer Will Have You Question the Very Nature of Your Reality (Video) . In: The Wrap . July 27, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Kristen Howard, Michael Ahr: Undone Amazon Animated TV Series Trailer, Release Date, Cast, Story, and News . In: Den of Geek . July 27, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ a b Kirsten Chuba: 'Bojack' Creator's New Show: "What If We Went Even Weirder?" . In: Hollywood Reporter . September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Jackie Ruth: ATX Television Festival 2019: “Undone” Review . In: Shuffle Online . June 9, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Kirsten Chuba: 'Undone' Star Rosa Salazar on Telling Latinx Stories, Playing Animated Versions of Herself . In: Hollywood Reporter . September 14, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Karen Idelson: How animated series 'Undone' used a mix of techniques to tell the mind-bending tale . In: Variety . September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ^ Ramin Zahed: 'Undone': The Surreal Life in Rotoscope from Kate Purdy & Raphael Bob-Waksberg . In: Animation Magazine . September 8, 2019. Accessed September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Steve Greene: 'Undone' first trailer: 'BoJack' team's newest animated show is a rotoscoped reality break . In: Indiewire . June 7, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Ben Travers: 'Undone' Builds Buzz at Comic-Con as Rosa Salazar Takes Questions on Amazon's Landmark Series . In: Indiewire . July 18, 2019. Retrieved September 15, 2019.
- ↑ Undone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Undone at Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ Undone reviews at Metacritic
- ↑ Ben Travers: 'Undone' review: Kate Purdy and Raphael Bob-Waksberg's gorgeous TV Show breaks the mold . In: Indiewire . September 12, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Allison Shoemaker: Amazon's grounded, fantastical series Undone worthy of deep examination . In: rogerebert.com . September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Kelly Lawler: Review: Amazon's surreal animated 'Undone' is the best new show this fall . In: USA Today . September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Liam Matthews: Undone Review: Amazon's Animated Drama Is an Extraordinary Blend of Style and Substance . In: TV Guide . September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ↑ Judy Berman: Undone, from the team behind BoJack Horseman, is the perfect sci-fi series for 2019 . In: TIME . September 9, 2019. Retrieved September 16, 2019.