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Alias Grace

★ 7.6 43K votes 2017–2017 1 season · 6 episodes Ended CBC Television
Unreliable narratorThe telling itself can't be trusted.This show: 9/10Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10Event miniseriesPrestige limited television built as an event.This show: 8/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 8/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 8/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 8/10Class divideWealth, poverty and the gulf between them.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Sarah GadonEdward HolcroftRebecca LiddiardZachary LeviKerr LoganDavid Cronenberg
Starring
Sarah GadonEdward HolcroftRebecca LiddiardZachary LeviKerr LoganDavid Cronenberg
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Votes per Episode
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About

"A murder mystery that distrusts its own narrator"

Based on Margaret Atwood's novel, this miniseries follows Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant servant convicted of a notorious double murder in 19th-century Canada, as a doctor interviews her years later trying to unlock her memory of that day. Told through Grace's own guarded narration, it moves slowly and deliberately, more interested in atmosphere, class, and the unreliability of memory than in courtroom drama. It's quietly unsettling rather than thrilling, carried almost entirely by its lead performance and a persistent sense that the truth is always just out of reach.

Watch it for

a mesmerizing lead performance that keeps you guessing about what's true.

Maybe skip if

you want fast plotting rather than slow, ambiguous psychological drama.

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All Seasons

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Season 12017
7.86K64h 26m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Part 17.6
1K45 min
▶2Part 28.0
1K46 min
▶3Part 37.7
1K43 min
▶4Part 47.8
96243 min
▶5Part 58.0
95045 min
▶6Part 67.8
97144 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Sarah Gadon Grace Marks
Edward Holcroft Dr. Simon Jordan
Rebecca Liddiard Mary Whitney
Zachary Levi Jeremiah Pontelli
Kerr Logan James McDermott
David Cronenberg Reverend Verringer
Paul Gross Thomas Kinnear
Anna Paquin Nancy Montgomery
Sarah Manninen Mrs. Humphrey
Stephen Joffe Jamie Walsh

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