Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
4 episodes
E01
Pharmacy
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
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
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
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
as Olive Kitteridge
Richard Jenkins
as Henry Kitteridge
Martha Wainwright
as Angela O'Meara
John Gallagher, Jr.
as Christopher Kitteridge
Ann Dowd
as Bonnie Newton
Peter Mullan
as Jim O'Casey
Bill Murray
as Jack Kennison
Jesse Plemons
as Jerry McCarthy
Rosemarie DeWitt
as Rachel Coulson
Zoe Kazan
as Denise Thibodeau
Donna Mitchell
as Louise Larkin
Brady Corbet
as Henry Thibodeau