TV series

Alias Grace

2017 · 1 season

A slow, cerebral period drama that feels like piecing together a fragmented memory, unsettling and intimate.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, eerie and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, identity, isolation, class
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
identity
isolation
class
gender
Places: single country house
prison
small town
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild