Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Mehmet Hikmet Altug (mhikmetaltug) HBO mini-series, Olive Kitteridge takes place in a small New England town. The story bases on a small town Mid-school math teacher's cross section life story of her 25 years. The interesting plot took my attention, having its humoristic and sarcastic semiotic as a tribute to the Olive Kitteridge character (Frances McDormand) contains sarcasm on its own personality. Olive and her husband live with their children. As a husband figure Henry Kitteridge (Richard Jenkins) approaches the nonsense acts of his wife (which wind the plot and making it both humoristic and sarcastic while telling her story) in an easy going and modest way. The situation that he faces is simple. Living with a hard woman, without her knowing that she is ruining her environment because of her desire of reaching the mathematical perfection in her personal life. The not cruel but annoying egoist life of Olive gave me the same impression she gives her husband and son. The snappishness creates the tease and humor at that point. Henry (her husband), Cristopher (her son), simultaneously give the feeling of distress they face and Olive's acts seem funnily annoying, both to them (Olive's environment) in the movie, and to us (the audience). And creates the catharsis of feeling the fury, pity and not to take her seriously with a glimpse to her behaviors.Emotions, for instance, feeling sorry for Olive, for not accepting the happiness, the love or, for wasting her time to be just perfect and critical until her elder age.The happiness seeker father's (Henry) sympathetic acts, giving the recipe of living the decent but content life, without thinking to run away from his hard-boiled wife and son. The funny parts of Olive's obsessed acts.And the naturally flowing expressions on the plot, such as natural death and getting old in a small town, the increase of the loneliness by being apart from children, losing the closest ones. Anger and tactless accusations of family members depicted in the some scenes of mother and son arguments.Yes, these emotions and plenty other everyday life feelings that we all live in our short life.The eclecticism of the sarcasm, the happiness, the obsessions, the funny moments. All of them are the human peculiar acts. And all of them are global, even you live in a countryside or in a big city. Olive Kitteridge teaches us to try to live every moment of our life in joy. Without giving up our duties or put ourselves in a hopeless position we should esteem our good life deserved rented bodies, by esteeming our spirits and the others around us.As a mini-series that has a narration that reflects the real-life human behaviors, both individually and cooperatively in such a short time, with great psychological analysed fixings, I must admit Olive Kitteridge has deserved the awards that it has reached so far. And maybe, could have win a few more.

angelccampoamor That's what I asked my wife when I saw the last scene of this pseudo-Pulitzer.My conclusions? HBO must be a mafia. If not I don't understand it. I don't understand that they can award any kind of Emmy to this regular soap-opera. Only explanation: HBO took charge of the asylum.That would also explain the "best script" award to Game of Thrones, instead of "Mad Men".And, by the way, How dare they advertise Bill Murray as supporting actor? It's a plain hoax. He is only 10 minutes or less on screen through the whole show. And thank god for that, 'cause it wasn't a good part either. Just the same old Bill Murray grumpy old guy. But poor and lame.And thank god again, it was only 4 installments. I was bored already on the second.'Nuff said.

bellab1972 I would love to know the point of this show! Did the producers think "let's make a series where everyone is depressingly boring and twisted and nothing happens"! Olive Kitteridge is a miserable nasty person which makes for an arduous viewing experience! I like to give program's a good go but honestly, after 2 episodes I found myself dreading watching a third episode considering how depressing and slow it is! Even when I see the title while scroll through my program guide, a feeling of foreboding envelopes me! Who in their right mind would actually "enjoy" watching depressed, uneventful mind numbingly boring characters and story line! I am shocked there is a book with the same characters and story line! The only thing I liked about Olive Kitteridge were the commercials!

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.