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Olive Kitteridge

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Universal acclaim based on 34 Critic Reviews

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Universal acclaim based on 14 Ratings

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Olive Kitteridge

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HBO | Release Date: November 2, 2014

Summary: Over the course of 25 years, Olive Kitteridge's (Frances McDormand) interactions with the people of her small Maine town is the focus of this adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series

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S1:E4. Security
Air Date: November 3, 2014
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S1:E3. A Different Road
Air Date: November 3, 2014
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S1:E2. Incoming Tide
Air Date: November 2, 2014

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Critic Reviews

100

The Oregonian

Kristi Turnquist

Nov 3, 2014

Season 1 Review: Adapted from a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge is an extraordinary character study, featuring a brilliant performance by Frances McDormand. Read full review

100

Boston Globe

Matthew Gilbert

Oct 30, 2014

Season 1 Review: Like the extraordinary Elizabeth Strout novel-in-stories that it’s based on, HBO’s Olive Kitteridge accumulates with steady, earned drama into a searing portrait of quiet desperation. It’s sad, unsentimental, and lovely. Read full review

100

Los Angeles Times

Mary McNamara

Nov 3, 2014

Season 1 Review: [A] lovely, ruthless, masterfully restrained two-night, four-hour contemplation of love, marriage, parenthood, mental illness and identity. Read full review

90

The New Yorker

Emily Nussbaum

Oct 30, 2014

Season 1 Review: [A] soaring, inventive miniseries. Read full review

90

Slate

Willa Paskin

Oct 31, 2014

Season 1 Review: Like its heroine, Olive Kitteridge, the four-hour miniseries airing this Sunday and Monday on HBO, is quietly indomitable, more admirable than easily loveable, more likely to get under your skin than send a shock through your system. Read full review

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Philadelphia Daily News

Ellen Gray

Oct 31, 2014

Season 1 Review: Frances McDormand takes the difficult title character from Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer-winning collection of short stories out for a slightly different spin, but the result is less a challenge to Strout's vision than a broadening of it. Read full review

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New York Daily News

David Hinckley

Nov 3, 2014

Season 1 Review: Somehow, it’s hard to appreciate the insights because the whole thing just feels so gosh-darned depressing. Read full review

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BenWomack

Aug 22, 2020

This, 22nd August 2020ce.
Hi, good (time of day) to you.
I think, it's not all that true. I think, if it's not true, also, then it's not true, in the way, that a landscape artist would frame the picture, using a tree that wasn't there, etc. It is quite beautiful. You are to witness aThis, 22nd August 2020ce.
Hi, good (time of day) to you.

I think, it's not all that true. I think, if it's not true, also,
then it's not true, in the way, that a landscape artist would frame the picture, using a tree that wasn't there, etc.
It is quite beautiful.

You are to witness a community, through a central character - who has something to report.
(my own opinion- for whatever reason, can be one is under pressure, to make life interesting) (I'm sure, spread the net far enough, things do happen, in a community.)
(what I feel, from personal experience, is - you don't want things to happen (to prove, what an amazing, paramedic you are. Or just curious.)- Really, you want there to be still- but that is not the way it is.) (I have never been a paramedic.) (or a paramour! sob.)

Anyway. Maine, this person; breadth, in that, happens over years. Think, a country doctor's notebook.
I am a happy customer. I received, pretty much, what I expected, from the series (write this now having only seen two eps. Or two chapters. Two, anyway.)

Elegant and warm.

Thanks.

Does it use beautiful people to get your attention? Inward beauty. Rose de Witt.
Am I the correct age? I'll argue it, but probably yes.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 2, 2014
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  S1:E4. Security
  Air Date: November 3, 2014
- tbd
  S1:E3. A Different Road
  Air Date: November 3, 2014
- tbd
  S1:E2. Incoming Tide
  Air Date: November 2, 2014
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  S1:E1. Pharmacy
  Air Date: November 2, 2014