SummaryThe second television series adaptation in 2017 from a Margaret Atwood novel is based on the true story of Irish immigrant in Canada named Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), who in 1843 was convicted of murdering her employer and the housekeeper with the help of a stable hand named James McDermott (Kerr Logan).
❮ Alias Grace
Season 1
Season Premiere:
Sep 25, 2017
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
81
90% Positive
27 Reviews
27 Reviews
10% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Nov 1, 2017
100
It does take six full hours to get there, but the journey — her journey — can be an immersive one. ... Terrific. Immersive. Melancholy.
Nov 3, 2017
90
Harron has found an original cinematic language to convey Grace’s memories, a dream-like narrative propulsion that carries us along. ... Levi is Alias Grace’s only false note: he seems to have walked right off the set of Chuck without adjusting for the time-period here. Sarah Gadon’s performance is transfixing.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
75% Positive
67 Ratings
67 Ratings
8% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
17% Negative
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
Dec 3, 2017
10
Alias Grace trata de uma das minisséries mais impactantes de 2017. Abordar o tema de múltiplas personalidades acaba sendo chocante para os espectadores que assistem a série,tendo em vista que o assunto aparenta ser real,embora não tão discutido na sociedade moderna.
Nov 8, 2017
10
Once in a while you stumble across a production like 'Alias Grace' that is so vividly written with a story and characters so raw that you almost feel a responsibility to keep watching. Then before you realise, it's 3 am and the season is done but you feel the better for it. Grace's existence is grim and largely joyless, she struggles to keep her head above water in a life that is near constantly out of her depth. However it is her stoicism and gentle but constant striving that bring the greatest rewards as a viewer. Her small and infrequent victories against the tide of the times in which her story takes place never feel inconsequential. Grace is a deeply complicated and intelligent character played brilliantly Sarah Gadon who views life through a mind set she was born into and has long outgrown in some respects but shackled by in others. Keeping the audience guessing if the main protagonist is a victim or a villain is nothing new but in this story we are asked to guess along with Grace as to the quality of her own character which I thinks is where this series breaks new ground. Ernst and captivating from the start, highly recommended!
Oct 28, 2017
90
What might have been a rather talky script is enlivened by the peerless performances of Sarah Gadon (who played the romantically doomed librarian in the Hulu miniseries production of 11.22.63) as the wan but flinty Grace and Canadian TV regular Paul Gross as the bewildered Dr. Jordan.
Nov 2, 2017
80
The show’s direction, by American Psycho filmmaker Mary Harron, is elegant, and the script, by Away from Her writer/director Sarah Polley, is crisply modern in its understanding of characters’ psychological realities yet blurry enough on the margins to allow in delicious ambiguity.
Nov 2, 2017
80
The danger that “Alias Grace” might be too talky is allayed, partly by the camera work — anyone who has seen “In Treatment” knows that therapy can be visually dynamic when handled properly — and mostly by Gadon’s performance.
Nov 3, 2017
70
It’s more quiet and contemplative (and occasionally a bit dull) than it is propulsive. But viewers drawn to quiet, thoughtful character stories and a largely unknown story from women’s history may find “Alias Grace” engaging enough.
Oct 26, 2017
50
[Sarah] Gadon is alluringly enigmatic as we wonder if she's playing him [a doctor interviewing her], but the overall effect is less than hypnotizing. [30 Oct 2017 - 12 Nov 2017, p.13]
Dec 24, 2021
8
Once in a while you stumble across a production like 'Alias Grace' that is so vividly written with a story and characters so raw that you almost feel a responsibility to keep watching. Then before you realise, it's 3 am and the season is done but you feel the better for it. Grace's existence is grim and largely joyless, she struggles to keep her head above water in a life that is near constantly out of her depth. However it is her stoicism and gentle but constant striving that bring the greatest rewards as a viewer. Her small and infrequent victories against the tide of the times in which her story takes place never feel inconsequential. Grace is a deeply complicated and intelligent character played brilliantly Sarah Gadon who views life through a mind set she was born into and has long outgrown in some respects but shackled by in others. Keeping the audience guessing if the main protagonist is a victim or a villain is nothing new but in this story we are asked to guess along with Grace as to the quality of her own character which I thinks is where this series breaks new ground. Ernst and captivating from the start, highly recommended
Nov 16, 2017
8
First 2 episodes are slow and grim, but the show improves as it moves through to the end. Location ad time period are quite unique, albeit romanticized (in a positive and negative way). Recommended.
Nov 5, 2017
6
This falls under the unreliable narrator genre. Unremittingly grim and humorless. Grace, and women in general, are very badly treated. Slow and somewhat repetitive. The actress who plays Grace is excellent. The actor who plays the alienist is not. It is decent but not in the same ballpark as The Handmaid's Tale.
Nov 21, 2017
3
Had hopes this show would be decent as Atwood is a brilliant writer, but this show is super slow moving with no real payoff. The acting is good, but the story takes forever to unfold. Not worth watching.
