Olive Kitteridge
Pharmacy
TV Flash files “Pharmacy” as a desk essential hour — Olive Kitteridge (2014) on HBO, season 1, episode 1, aired 2014-11-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 4 in the Olive Kitteridge guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2014-11-02 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “Incoming Tide” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Pharmacy”. Pharmacy opens McDormand's difficult Maine teacher: Anderson's Strout mosaic, ordinary ache as cinema, Jenkins absorbing the weather.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
In 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.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Pharmacy sit in the Olive Kitteridge guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 4 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Olive Kitteridge S01E01 air?
Pharmacy aired 2014-11-02 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is there a plot I have to track?
Linked lives, not a mystery box. Ordinary ache as cinema. If you need a case to solve, Olive will still be difficult at the grocery store and that will be the point.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Frances McDormand's difficult Maine teacher bruises and loves her way through linked lives; Richard Jenkins's Henry absorbs the weather. Jane Anderson's mosaic from Elizabeth Strout treats ordinary ache as cinema. Limited-series prestige at its quietest — minimal plot, maximal character, kindness that arrives sideways if it arrives at all.
Before the vending machine decided every difficult woman needed a murder to justify the hour, Frances McDormand's Olive bruised and loved her way through a small Maine town. Jane Anderson's 2014 HBO miniseries from Elizabeth Strout's novel: a difficult math teacher, decades of linked lives, Richard Jenkins's Henry absorbing the weather, Zoe Kazan, Bill Murray, John Gallagher Jr. Minimal plot, maximal character. Kindness arrives sideways if it arrives at all. Short-story mosaic treated as cinema. On the palate:…
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- Bill Murray as Jack Kennison
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- John Gallagher Jr. as Christopher Kitteridge
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