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The Alzheimer's Project
75
8.0 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 10 critic reviews
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Based on 1 vote
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Show Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Created By: John Hoffman
Sheila Nevins
Maria Shriver

First Air Date: May 10, 2009

Summary

Starring Maria Shriver

The four-part documentary looks at the people affected by Alzheimer's and the search for a cure.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

Entertainment WeeklyMandi Bierly

The four-part docuseries begins with ''The Memory Loss Tapes,'' a moving look at the disease's progression through seven patients at various stages. It's not a question of if you'll cry, it's how soon.

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100

NewsdayVerne Gay

What's here is pitch-perfect - the fear, loss, emotional devastation and, peculiar to this disease, silence.

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80

Los Angeles TimesMary McNamara

The Alzheimer’s Project is an ambitious, disturbing, emotionally fraught and carefully optimistic four-part documentary exploring virtually every angle of Alzheimer's disease that can be explored on television

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80

SalonHeather Havrilesky

Thankfully, while the reckoning of "The Memory Loss Tapes" is probably necessary, the other documentaries in the series are a little more hopeful.

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70

Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin

The Alzheimer's Project, a four-part series that began with two episodes focused on harrowing descriptions of the disease, concludes on a hopeful note with two more outlining research advances.

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70

The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley

The zeal and dedication of researchers is inspiring, and so are the patients and caregivers who struggle with the disease everyday, but over all, The Alzheimer’s Project celebrates hope at the expense of caution.

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70

Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith

In many respects, HBO's The Alzheimer's Project is nearly identical to the Emmy-winning PBS Alzheimer's presentation, "The Forgetting," which was first broadcast in 2004 and updated last year.

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60

VarietyBrian Lowry

It's perhaps inevitable that this project will range from sobering and moving to, at times, feeling a bit too much like homework.

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60

New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley

The Alzheimer's Project is hard to watch. It's just not as hard as the disease it examines.

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60

Hollywood ReporterRandee Dawn

We like noble efforts. But we tend to like them better on television when they're accompanied by a sense of pacing and entertainment value. (If things were otherwise, PBS would rule the universe.) In this case, a few more spoonfuls of sugar might have helped this medicine go down.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this show is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Ernie K gave it an8:
An important series, but poorly assembled, I fear the opening hour caused many viewers to turn it off due to the hopelessness depicted. The producers needed to sprinkle bits of the hope from researchers throughout the grim introduction of the patients.

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