Olive Kitteridge
Olive Kitteridge Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.5 | 8.7 |
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About
"A quietly devastating portrait of an unlikable, unforgettable woman"
Adapted from Elizabeth Strout's novel, this four-part miniseries follows Olive Kitteridge, a blunt, difficult schoolteacher in a small Maine town, across roughly 25 years of marriage, grief, and quiet unraveling. It's slow, literary, and unflinching about depression and disappointment, carried almost entirely by Frances McDormand's prickly, unglamorous performance and Richard Jenkins as her endlessly patient husband. There's little plot momentum in the conventional sense; instead it accumulates small, devastating moments about how people stay together, or don't, over decades. Beautifully shot, deeply melancholic, and more interested in emotional truth than resolution.
Frances McDormand's fearless, prickly performance as a woman who refuses to be likable.
you need forward momentum or likable characters rather than slow, melancholic character study.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Pharmacy | 8.1 | 1K | 65 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | Incoming Tide | 8.4 | 1K | 57 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | A Different Road | 8.5 | 972 | 55 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Security | 8.7 | 963 | 62 min |