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Alias Grace - Season 1
The series revolves around that girl, Grace Marks, a poor immigrant, Irish young woman and domestic servant in Upper Canada. As the days passed, she was convicted along with James McDermott of the brutal murders of his employer Thomas Kenner and his housekeeper. In that period, James was sentenced to hanging, while Grace was sentenced to life imprisonment. The series revolves around the details of the case, where Grace became one of the most obscure and notorious women in Canada in the 1840s because of her supposed role in the murder.
4 April 1987, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
15 August 1986, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
27 May 1970, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4 December 1962, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
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 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 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 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 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.
