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Alias Grace - Season 1
The story of Alias Grace follows Grace Marks, a poor, young Irish immigrant and domestic servant in Upper Canada who, along with stable hand James McDermott, was convicted of the brutal murders of their employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery, in 1843. James was hanged while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. Grace became one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of 1840s Canada for her supposed role in the sensational double murder, and was eventually exonerated after 30 years in jail. Her conviction was controversial, and sparked much debate about whether Grace was actually involved in the murder, or merely an unwitting accessory.The mini is inspired by the historical true story of convicted murderer Grace Marks and based on Margaret Atwood's novel.
4 April 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
15 March 1943, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
24 July 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
30 April 1959, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
30 July 1963, Port Hope, Ontario, Canada
15 August 1986, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
20 March 1963, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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 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.
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 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 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.
