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Alias Grace - Season 1
It is a series of powerful events that speak of Grace Marks, a poor immigrant, Irish young woman and domestic servant. Grace was convicted with James McDermott for the brutal murders committed by his employer, Thomas Kinnear. James was hanged while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment and Grace became one of the most obscure and notorious women in Canada in the 1840s. It is a series of events that embody the reality of that story because of the supposed role of that woman in the double murder.
28 February 1957, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada
June1986
4 December 1962, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
20 March 1995, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
30 April 1959, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
19 November 1963, Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
September 15, 2017
Gadon is the engine that drives it and there is a stiffness to the six-part adaptation of the type which tends to bedevil a good deal of Canadian TV drama.
September 12, 2017
The hook may be a murder, but it's more interestingly examined as a story about storytelling and for the contributions of Polley, Harron and Gadon.
September 25, 2017
The story comes to the viewer in complex chunks and unsettling layers... Innocent or guilty? There's much more to it than that.
September 17, 2017
In most of the ways that matter, Netflix's Alias Grace presents an adaptation that delivers the gothic horror, social commentary, and domestic investigation of the novel.
September 09, 2017
Sarah Gadon's exhilarating performance inhabits and subverts all the extreme adjectives thrown Grace's way, leaving you with a memorable character whose lingering unknowability is her greatest strength.
