Olive Kitteridge: Season 1

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Season Details & Credits

HBO | Season Premiere Date: November 2, 2014

Summary: The adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name focuses on the Olive Kitteridge's (Frances McDormand) interactions with the people of her small Maine town over the course of 25 years.

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

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Season 1 Episodes

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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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Kristi Turnquist

Nov 3, 2014

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

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Matthew Gilbert

Oct 30, 2014

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

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Mary McNamara

Nov 3, 2014

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

Emily Nussbaum

Oct 30, 2014

[A] soaring, inventive miniseries. Read full review

Willa Paskin

Oct 31, 2014

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

Ellen Gray

Oct 31, 2014

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

David Hinckley

Nov 3, 2014

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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haw2991

Nov 12, 2014

I haven't read the book but after watching this superbly acted mini-series, I wouldn't mind checking it out. While I did feel part four was a bit of a letdown, I didn't care for Bill Murray's character, overall, this series was fantastic.

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Capecruseder

Jan 17, 2021

Heartfelt, Sometimes funny and moving. If you dont like the first episode, don't continue, its not for everyone .

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DemonSoul

Dec 29, 2014

I would say this is in the vein of the movie sideways, very good but not as good, funny, but not as funny. good dialogue, but not as good, but longer in a good way.

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EricCartman

Dec 23, 2014

Well written and beautifully acted. McDormand and Jenkins are both amazing. This is probably the best mini-series HBO had done since Band of Brothers.

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googolendtimes

Feb 16, 2015

One of the best television shows of the year and HBO's best offering since "The Normal Heart", "Olive Kitteridge" is an expansive and riveting drama that retains a vital sense of intimacy even as it spans the course of twenty years or so. Though this miniseries is beautifully shot andOne of the best television shows of the year and HBO's best offering since "The Normal Heart", "Olive Kitteridge" is an expansive and riveting drama that retains a vital sense of intimacy even as it spans the course of twenty years or so. Though this miniseries is beautifully shot and scripted, what truly makes it stand out are the performances - Frances McDormand, in particular, is nothing short of magnificent and she's bolstered by Richard Jenkins who, likewise, delivers a career-best performance. This is must-see television, transcending the bounds of its conventional family drama to be a heartbreakingly genuine mediation on age and loneliness that is blackly comical, soulful, and achingly sad.… Expand

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BogKid

Nov 3, 2014

I have watched only the first two hours of this HBO mini-series. It is too soon, certainly for an sort lot final judgment. The production is superb. The acting, hardly surprising considering the cast, is first rate. The story, so far, is a bit depressing but it is also riveting. I couldI have watched only the first two hours of this HBO mini-series. It is too soon, certainly for an sort lot final judgment. The production is superb. The acting, hardly surprising considering the cast, is first rate. The story, so far, is a bit depressing but it is also riveting. I could not stop watching even if I wanted to. I do not!… Expand

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bruce9

Mar 13, 2015

I have no idea what people see in this show,it is dark, slow and there are no likeable people.
The acting is incredible, but that's not enough for me.

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