Should you watch Alias Grace?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Alias Grace
Series · 2017
Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.
The sides of Alias Grace
- An Irish maid convicted of murder in 1843
- A doctor trying to unlock her memory
- A woman's life told from inside prison
Alias Grace is good for you if…
- you like the lives of servants in 19th-century Canada.
- you like wondering, scene after scene, whether Grace did it.
- you like Sarah Gadon's calm, unreadable Grace.
Alias Grace is bad for you if…
- you need momentum, and most of it is Grace and the doctor talking quietly in a prison room.
- you want to know for sure who killed Thomas Kinnear.
About: memory · guilt · women's lives · class
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