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The Alzheimer's Project
EMAILPRINTMINISERIES: HBO, begins Sunday 5/10 at 9:00p
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 10 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
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.
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site
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...
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.
Read Full Review >NewsdayVerne Gay
What's here is pitch-perfect - the fear, loss, emotional devastation and, peculiar to this disease, silence.
Read Full Review >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
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
The Alzheimer's Project is hard to watch. It's just not as hard as the disease it examines.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
