Olive Kitteridge
Season 1
4 listed hours · 2014 · HBO
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How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Olive Kitteridge (2014) on HBO as the only listed season — 4 listed hours, 2014-11-02–2014-11-03 from “Pharmacy” (S01E01) to “Security” (S01E04). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Pharmacy
Pharmacy opens McDormand's difficult Maine teacher: Anderson's Strout mosaic, ordinary ache as cinema, Jenkins absorbing the weather.
- S01E02 Incoming Tide
Incoming Tide bruises linked lives: the mosaic still allergic to a tidy arc, the water as the hour's only clock.
- S01E03 A Different Road
A Different Road treats the bruise as the route, not a redemption map — limited mosaic still refusing polish.
- S01E04 Security
Security titles the joke: ache without a lock, four hours of ordinary cinema that will not soothe.
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S01E01 Pharmacy
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.
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S01E02 Incoming Tide
A twentysomething Kevin returns to Maine, and Olive ropes him into staying over and attending Christopher's wedding-rehearsal dinner. At the ceremony, Olive clashes with the bride's mother and scares the flower girl
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S01E03 A Different Road
Christopher 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.
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S01E04 Security
Olive 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.
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