奥丽芙·基特里奇 (2014)

HBO’s deeply involving and completely draining miniseries.

The program works so well as curdled Americana, you might not be inclined to peel back the other layers, much less delve into what’s happening at a storytelling level (which is even more impressive); but that’s a part of what makes Olive Kitteridge so pleasurable: its unobtrusive ambition.

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

A quietly captivating miniseries about a seldom-quiet woman.

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.

McDormand's portrayal of Olive Kitteridge is even more accomplished, in turns aggravating and affecting while always seeming just right. Jenkins is likewise superb.... This is a nuanced, slowly simmering look at bent and spindled lives molded by previous bent and spindled lives. The bright spots are there, but never glowing. Self-realization is the payoff.

Olive Kitteridge explores Tolstoy’s notion that every family is unhappy in its own way, making the particular unhappiness of the Kitteridges universal through a magical combination of great direction, writing and performances. You’ll not soon forget Olive Kitteridge, the woman or the mini-series.

There are many things that Olive Kitteridge gets right, but none so significant as how brilliantly it simultaneously captures the deep, pervasive stillness and the close, suffocating entanglement of small-town living.

It's an honest tearjerker that treats its characters with respect, according them a great sense of wounded, tattered dignity.

McDormand will win an Emmy for this. Already, there's no contest.... Cholodenko's direction is masterful, and so is the bleakly funny script by Jane Anderson, but they clearly have a vision that is both part of--and separate from--the source material.

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 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.