mb-155 So I am just about getting in to this fairly 'masochistic' drama, which is pretty good, but had to pause to point out not every very clever person is depressed and mean spirited. Being mean spirited Olive Kitterridge has to smugly point this out near the start. In my opinion life is not as black and white as that Olive.There is a continuing run on creating drams where to be clever somehow or other equates to snide remakes, sarcasm, and people with mean spirits and so on and are also 'dysfunctional' in some way. Step forward the character Bill Murray always plays. He was brilliant in Groundhog Day and for me that's where it ended. He always plays that sort of part. Well good let's balance the books when the world appears to need 'negative' dramas like this roll them out and that is what people now like.But she made this point about cleverness and depression in the first part of the film. I am sorry but this is not true. This trend is typified in other dramas like 'House' where the lead also happens to be a 'mean' person who is clever etc and in Doc Martin where, through no fault of his own, the lead character has a psychological illness but often has a 'mean' character. Reading the reviews on here people love this sort of drama. So be it.All I want to do is make is a small point and that I know a person, very close to my wife and I who is very clever IQ 130 at junior school tested by county psychologist and both my wife and I have had to deal with his huge depressions but he is not always making snide remarks and is not prone to sarcasm either. He has had huge issues settling down in life though.He has pitch perfect hearing and plays brilliant improvised classical music when he is very sad. He is never as good on the piano when he is happy. I would hate to think being clever equates to being spiteful to one and all. Don't get hoodwinked into believing this. There are plenty of low IQ nasty people and high IQ sarcastic people but also lots of 'nice' people with very high IQs. This film is set from the 1980s onwards heading towards the me, myself and I world. I guess very different from the post war era from when they were rolling out films like James Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life altogether a much easier film to watch for a sentimental person like me - even if it's in black and white.

Devon Seunarine I'm sitting watching this movie because I'm supposed to be writing an essay for school. At first i didn't bother with actually looking at the movie, but as the show progressed I realized what an interesting movie this is. Olive kitteridge is a classic old woman who is very sarcastic and uses sarcastic (hurtful) comments to hide her feelings. This movie displays her 'faults' and how the events after her husband falling ill and passing causes her to look at how she lived and to face her emotions and the wrongs she made in life. It's a very interesting movie to just sit and watch. Basically it's about and old mean woman who say hurtful things only because she is afraid of sharing her feelings. The movie depicts her journey to righting her wrongs against her son and as she meets a kind stranger who she can relate to about feeling. Summary: If you are a person who appreciates a slightly romantic bibliography that is not fun but touching then this is for you. However if you like an adventurous/action/sci-fi/comedy/romance then this is not for you.

scottsmusic-622-405281 While I agree that the characters are well drawn and the acting is incredible, what an epic and crushing downer. There's absolutely an art to the technical aspects of the program, but why would anyone want to see tragedy upon tragedy, heartbreak after heartbreak, pain on top of pain. Not to say "happy endings" are always the answer, but homeless people seem to have it better than this lot. Granted, I'm sure there are some life lessons here but I don't need to spend my time getting my feelings hurt by a freaking TV show - and because this IS well made that is what they want to happen. I do not see the upside. Grasping the appeal of this kind of teleplay is befuddling, perhaps more than the miniseries itself. I saved myself a lot of sad hours watching uncaring, annoying negative people zombie through hardship and adversity by skipping this rest of this maudlin cry fest. A special thanks to Rich Muller from Berkeley, California - his review was spot on and allowed me to put my time to better use. Perhaps those hours could be spent improving the world instead of reveling in all it's tragedy. Maybe that's the lesson for me here.

richmuller-155-460384 Excellent acting is marred by hateful characters and little character development. Every time there is an opportunity for warmth it is destroyed by the unremitting nastiness of one or more of the characters. If you want to watch a series that will convince you not to move to Maine, this is it. Bill Murray gets high billing, but except for a cameo, he appears only in the last episode. He too is inexcusably nasty, but that's the script's fault, not the actors. Generally the acting is fine. But if you hope to learn something about life from this, you will be disappointed. Your reaction will be to do your best to avoid anybody who behaves like the characters in this series. I watched it to the end to see how they could possibly resolve the unpleasantness of the story, but it never happened. Some writers had great fun putting together all the unpleasant verbal exchanges they could think of. Every time the interaction of the characters indicates that there is some hope, it is dashed by arbitrary nastiness. Whew! The only reason I didn't give it a 1 is the good acting. I think HBO must have been disappointed, and decided to put it out quickly, over 2 consecutive days. Critics seem to like it. Well, critics often like depressing stories; they mistake misery for subtlety.