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Olive Kitteridge

TV·2014–2014·1 season, 4 episodes·HBO·Drama·1h·8.0·Created by Jane Anderson

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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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  1. 01Olive Kitteridge S01E04SecurityS01E04 · 8.3Olive 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.
  2. 02Olive Kitteridge S01E03A Different RoadS01E03 · 7.8Christopher 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.
  3. 03Olive Kitteridge S01E01PharmacyS01E01 · 7.6In 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.

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Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode4Episodes2014Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S01E01Olive Kitteridge S01E01PharmacyNovember 2, 2014 7.6In the first of this four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel spanning 25 years in a small Maine town, math t
  2. S01E02Olive Kitteridge S01E02Incoming TideNovember 2, 2014 7.4A twentysomething Kevin returns to Maine, and Olive ropes him into staying over and attending Christopher's wedding-rehearsal dinner. At the
  3. S01E03Olive Kitteridge S01E03A Different RoadNovember 3, 2014 7.8Christopher suggests counseling to Olive after she and Henry have a scary episode following dinner with friends. Later, Christopher confront
  4. S01E04Olive Kitteridge S01E04Season's bestSecurityNovember 3, 2014 8.3Olive visits Christopher and his second wife in New York, but abruptly returns to Maine, where she gets some bad news about Henry, and ultim

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