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Alias Grace - Season 1
In this series, there is a very controversial issue that is about Grace Marx, a poor immigrant, an Irish young woman and a domestic servant. One day, Grace was convicted along with James McDermott for the brutal murders committed by his employer, Thomas Kinnear. James was jailed while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. The series presents this controversial issue, one of the most obscure issues where Grace became one of the most obscure and notorious women in Canada in the 1840s.
20 March 1995, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
6 November 1976, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
19 November 1963, Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
14 June 1990, London, Ontario, Canada
23 August 1991, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
22 August 1966, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
27 May 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
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.