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In the beginning, Alma was in pain, ripped apart by grief and dancing on the razor\u2019s edge of manic episodes, terrified of seeing her mental illness for what it is. Her father saves her \u2014 he shows her that her mental illness isn\u2019t a curse, but a superpower, and Alma begins to grow into it. As much as her time travel is about saving her father\u2019s life, it\u2019s also about fixing everything she regrets. Alma confronts everything she dislikes about herself and makes it her mission to undo it. And when she can\u2019t erase it entirely, she undoes enough to at least make all her pain worth it. <\/p>\n

Undone<\/em>\u2019s <\/em>science fiction elements and time travel present themselves as a possibility, but something that may be more imaginative than reality. The show constantly toys with the idea that it\u2019s all in Alma\u2019s head, a choice that extends all the way to the rotoscope animation style. When season 1 ends, Alma is sitting alone in front of a cave waiting for her dead dad to come out and prove to her that she does have power, that she can change the ugly in her life and undo all of the pain that lies in it. <\/p>\n

When Undone <\/em>season 2 <\/em>kicks off, it feels like an entirely different show. Alma goes through the cave and realizes that she fixed it all. She undid her father\u2019s death and in the process created a new timeline. However, no matter how idyllic this new reality is, it comes with its own pain. Only now, the purpose of the series has morphed. It\u2019s not about escaping and undoing the past, but reconciling it. <\/p>\n

To do that, season 2 <\/em>unpacks the guilt carried by the series\u2019 mothers: Camila and Geraldine, Alma\u2019s paternal grandmother. Both women felt forced to change who they are, to outright reject elements of their lives that connected them to their pasts. And their trauma ripples through Alma\u2019s life in ways she can\u2019t stand, propelling her to try to fix it all.<\/p>\n

For Camila, she left a child she had out of wedlock in an orphanage in Mexico. Struck by the grief of giving him up but saddled with the fear of losing her current family in the United States, she chose to hide him, sending him a motherly card on holidays and money every now and again. She effectively buried that part of herself, hiding it from everyone in the hope of living her American life and fulfilling all expectations. <\/p>\n