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Olive Kitteridge
Season 1
TV-14
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A middle-school math teacher Olive and her marriage with Henry which spans 25 years.
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4 Episodes
Pharmacy
E1
Episode 1
Pharmacy
Math teacher Olive Kitteridge attempts to help Kevin, a smart but timid student whose mother is suffering from depression. Her son Christopher isn't happy though. Henry goes on a hunting trip that concludes with a tragedy.
Incoming Tide
E2
Episode 2
Incoming Tide
Kevin returns to Maine and Olive is able to convince him to stay over and attend Christopher's wedding-rehearsal dinner. Olive clashes with the bride's mother and scares the flower girl at the ceremony.
A Different Road
E3
Episode 3
A Different Road
Christopher suggests counseling to Olive after she and Henry have a scary episode following dinner with friends. Later, Christopher confronts his mother about how she treated him as a child.
Security
E4
Episode 4
Security
Olive visits Christopher and his second wife in New York, but abruptly returns to Maine, where she gets some bad news about Henry, and ultimately befriends a lonely widower she meets while out for a walk.
Cast of Season 1
Frances McDormand
Olive Kitteridge
Richard Jenkins
Henry Kitteridge
Zoe Kazan
Denise Thibodeau
Rosemarie DeWitt
Rachel Coulson
Martha Wainwright
Angela O'Meara
John Gallagher Jr.
Christopher Kitteridge
John T. Mullen
Kevin Coulson
Ann Dowd
Bonnie Newton
Jesse Plemons
Jerry McCarthy
Bill Murray
Jack Kennison
Peter Mullan
Jim O'Casey
Brady Corbet
Henry Thibodeau
Donna Mitchell
Louise Larkin
Season 1 Reviews
New York Magazine/Vulture
Matt Zoller Seitz
It might seem inconceivable that one could describe a four-hour miniseries about emotionally constipated small-town Maine citizens as "thrilling," but that's what [it] is. Its excitement is due to Frances McDormand's performance as the title character.
New York Post
Robert Rorke
With her pitiless, clear-eyed gaze, McDormand is a marvel as Olive, capturing not only the character's indomitable spirit but her fears as Olive's world begins to crumble.
Collider
Allison Keene
Ultimately, though, the dialogue is quick and snappy, the acting is on another level, and there are some strange, almost Lynchian moments that make Olive Kitteridge a fascinating, if not a particularly upbeat watch.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gail Pennington
"I've always enjoyed your candor," a catty acquaintance tells Olive. So, likely, will anyone who watches "Olive Kitteridge," which seems sure to be a major player next TV awards season.
NPR
Eric Deggans
Olive Kitteridge tells a poignant, slow-burn story that is too long for a movie theater and too subtle for a typical TV series - the kind of creative storytelling outlets like HBO were made to showcase. And in four hours, it manages something amazing.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Near flawless in execution while filled with rarely seen intelligence and complexity.
indieWire
Sara Stewart
But you don't have to like her (though I do, a lot) to get into this series. You just have to appreciate how rare it is that you're getting a glimpse into her world.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ellen Gray
[Frances McDormand's] deft, marvelously matter-of-fact performance suggests she knew just what she was about.
indieWire
Jessica Kiang
It's not the visceral whodunnit or controversial biopic that the words "HBO miniseries" might conjure, but "Olive Kitteridge" is an absorbing, deeply intelligent drama that absolutely earns every emotion it elicits.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Olive Kitteridge gently insists that even a life as quietly, bitterly lived as Olive's is a big life, and [Director Lisa] Cholodenko's film is a wistful triumph in that regard.
Denver Post
Joanne Ostrow
These four transporting hours tell a touching, funny, heartbreaking story that underscores how complex life is, how fragile human interactions are.
NPR
David Bianculli
By focusing on the little things over a long period of time, Olive Kitteridge reminds us that the little things add up, in the end, to the biggest things of all.
New York Daily News
David Hinckley
Olive the book was hailed as an incisive piece of literature, a nuanced study of human nature and relationships. But on the screen, somehow, it's hard to appreciate the insights because the whole thing just feels so gosh-darned depressing.
indieWire
Matt Brennan
The problem with "Olive Kitteridge," in which we see the tragedies of village life through Olive's jaundiced perspective, is that it reduces these varieties of disenchantment to the main character's aphoristic "wisdom."
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Unhurried but amply rewarding, Olive Kitteridge is an all-around class act and a credit to everyone concerned.
Vox
Emily St. James
Its unflinching willingness to watch Olive burn everything to the ground around her makes the miniseries one of the best things to air on television this year.
TIME Magazine
James Poniewozik
Olive Kitteridge the character may not be likable in the commonly used sense, but Olive Kitteridge the miniseries goes after something much more unsettling, arduous and in the end worthwhile: love.
The Atlantic
Katie Kilkenny
Olive Kitteridge is realist in the best way: not merely as a decoration scheme, or cinema's equivalent of the vintage Instagram filter, but as an organic element of the story.
Entertainment Weekly
Melissa Maerz
Olive Kitteridge is one of the best explorations of clinical depression that I've seen on television, particularly when it comes to how mental illness is passed down within families.
Los Angeles Times
Mary McNamara
It is a marvel, from start to finish, a reminder not only that quiet lives are filled with many things besides desperation but that adult drama lives and outside the realm of genre and period pieces.
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