Olive Kitteridge

Olive Kitteridge

8/10
HBO Ended Drama

1 Season · 4 Episodes · Premiered November 2, 2014 · Ended November 3, 2014

Based on Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, Olive Kitteridge tells the poignantly sweet, acerbically funny and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of a woman whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center.

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 1

4 episodes
E01
Pharmacy
Mon, Nov 3 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
In the first of this four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spanning 25 years in a small Maine town, math teacher Olive Kitteridge helps Kevin, a smart but timid student whose mom is suffering from depression, a gesture that annoys her son, Christopher. Meanwhile, Henry goes on a hunting trip that ends in tragedy.
E02
Incoming Tide
Mon, Nov 3 2014 3:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
A twentysomething Kevin returns to Maine, and Olive ropes him into staying over and attending Christopher's wedding-rehearsal dinner. At the ceremony, Olive clashes with the bride's mother and scares the flower girl
E03
A Different Road
Tue, Nov 4 2014 2:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Christopher suggests counseling to Olive after she and Henry have a scary episode following dinner with friends. Later, Christopher confronts his mother about how she treated him as a child.
E04
Security
Tue, Nov 4 2014 3:00 AM GMT+0000 60 min
Olive visits Christopher and his second wife in New York, but abruptly returns to Maine, where she gets some bad news about Henry, and ultimately befriends a lonely widower she meets while out for a walk.

Cast

Frances McDormand
Frances McDormand as Olive Kitteridge
Richard Jenkins
Richard Jenkins as Henry Kitteridge
Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright as Angela O'Meara
John Gallagher, Jr.
John Gallagher, Jr. as Christopher Kitteridge
Ann Dowd
Ann Dowd as Bonnie Newton
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan as Jim O'Casey
Bill Murray
Bill Murray as Jack Kennison
Jesse Plemons
Jesse Plemons as Jerry McCarthy
Rosemarie DeWitt
Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel Coulson
Zoe Kazan
Zoe Kazan as Denise Thibodeau
Donna Mitchell as Louise Larkin
Brady Corbet
Brady Corbet as Henry Thibodeau

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