The series, which featured Edgar Ramirez, was the most watched on HBO in 2020

With four 2021 Golden Globe nominations, including Best Miniseries, Best Actress, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor, backing down It tops the Best Limited Series for Television category at the awards, due this Sunday, February 28th in the United States.

As IndieWireIn its final season, the series gathered 3 million TV viewers, making it the first production in HBO history to see its audience grow week by week during its six seasons airing.

backing down It is a free adaptation of the novel You already know that Written by The New York writer Jan Hanff Correllitz. In various interviews, David E. Kelly commented that he had obtained certain literary licenses and made some changes to the TV adaptation, in order to avoid spoilers and thus surprise both the people who had already read the book and those who did not know the history.

Under the direction of 2010 Academy Award winner Susan Bear, backing down The story of Grace Fraser (Kidman), a successful New York psychologist, who, along with her husband Jonathan (Grant), the famous childhood oncologist, and Henry, her teenage son, represents the “perfect family”. This bubble of privilege will burst on the day when a horrific murder occurs in which they are directly or indirectly involved.

From the first act, this classic psychological thriller movie invites the viewer to play a detective to find out who the killer is and why he did it. But in addition to this, he would be responsible, chapter by chapter, for confusing and deconstructing any theory of how the events happened, as they all became suspects.

One of the strongest points backing down Their shows are led by Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant along with Edgar Ramirez, Noah Job, Donald Soderland, Mathilde de Angelis, Numa Domizwini and Lily Rap.

Hugh Grant’s performance highlights his portrayal of Jonathan Frazier, a charming pediatric oncologist with narcissistic traits and the charming British personality of the actor. In addition, the nuances and shades of the character are very interesting, as well as their development as the story progresses.

These types of characters allowed Grant to distinguish himself from that image at the heart of the romantic comedy for which he was best known and best known in the 1990s; however, it is not the first time that he has played a witch and dark character: in 2018 that was Jeremy Thorpe, the first An English politician on trial for attempted murder, in the mini-series Very English scandal. It earned him his first Emmy nomination.

Although at the end of the series he lacks a bit of strength and is generally less melodramatic backing down It is entertaining, visually beautiful and can be seen on the weekend, because from the first chapter they want to know who the killer is.