Olive Kitteridge
Season 1 Premiere:
Sep 2, 2014
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Universal Acclaim
89
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8.2
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Nov 3, 2014
100
Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge is an extraordinary character study, featuring a brilliant performance by Frances McDormand.
Nov 3, 2014
100
[A] lovely, ruthless, masterfully restrained two-night, four-hour contemplation of love, marriage, parenthood, mental illness and identity.
Oct 30, 2014
100
There are many things that Olive Kitteridge gets right, but none so significant as how brilliantly it simultaneously captures the deep, pervasive stillness and the close, suffocating entanglement of small-town living.
Oct 31, 2014
90
All of which adds up to drama--which includes a fine turn by Bill Murray--of a notably high order.
Oct 30, 2014
80
McDormand is clearly and rightfully the star of the show, but Bill Murray and Richard Jenkins provide additional reasons to tune in; both bring a warmth and dry wit to a drama whose domestic scenes occasionally veer from awkward to (intentionally) taxing.
Nov 3, 2014
40
Somehow, it’s hard to appreciate the insights because the whole thing just feels so gosh-darned depressing.
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Universal Acclaim
87% Positive
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Aug 22, 2020
5
This, 22nd August 2020ce.
Hi, good (time of day) to you. I think, it's not all that true. I think, if it's not true, also,
then it's not true, in the way, that a landscape artist would frame the picture, using a tree that wasn't there, etc.
It is quite beautiful. You are to witness a community, through a central character - who has something to report.
(my own opinion- for whatever reason, can be one is under pressure, to make life interesting) (I'm sure, spread the net far enough, things do happen, in a community.)
(what I feel, from personal experience, is - you don't want things to happen (to prove, what an amazing, paramedic you are. Or just curious.)- Really, you want there to be still- but that is not the way it is.) (I have never been a paramedic.) (or a paramour! sob.) Anyway. Maine, this person; breadth, in that, happens over years. Think, a country doctor's notebook.
I am a happy customer. I received, pretty much, what I expected, from the series (write this now having only seen two eps. Or two chapters. Two, anyway.) Elegant and warm. Thanks. Does it use beautiful people to get your attention? Inward beauty. Rose de Witt.
Am I the correct age? I'll argue it, but probably yes.
