@bgirlmagic said:

Anyone watching this? It seems interesting so far. I really enjoyed the book, my favourite of Atwood's. It's not at all how I pictured the book but I'll continue past the first episode to give it a shot.

I enjoyed this series. I wonder if there will be another season? It would be interesting to see if Grace and the doctor get together.

One of my favorite books of her's as well but I read it so long ago I'd forgotten much of it. I thought it was exceptional, amazing performances and beautifully filmed. I thought Sarah Gadon was so perfect, dancing so well on the edge of sympathy and evil. As far as a sequel, no ... this was it.

@HoneyWest said:

One of my favorite books of her's as well but I read it so long ago I'd forgotten much of it. I thought it was exceptional, amazing performances and beautifully filmed. I thought Sarah Gan was so perfect, dancing so well on the edge of sympathy and evil. As far as a sequel, no ... this was it.

Thanks. I never read the book.

@HoneyWest said:

... As far as a sequel, no ... this was it.

I'm glad. I wouldn't want to see this turn into the usual never ending series with side-plots and trivia... I think the mini-series format works well for novel adaptations.

Sarah Gadon was great in this. Very nuanced performance...

[spoilers within]

Eh, it was okay. I'm not really sure what we're supposed to take from it. I haven't read the book. I didn't like the main character much at all. (The actress was fine, but I mean the character). Of course we couldn't ever know for sure if she was lying or not, and, so, it ends on that note too. So it's like, okay? Lol? What was the point of watching it? And please don't tell me to go watch Transformers 2 because that's more my speed or something (I mean, you can if you want, but...) My interest was held enough to watch it, but it just seemed the whole time to be leading up to these big secrets and dramas that never really panned out. I did find the friend Mary Whitney kind of bizarre and she was entertaining to watch; she was probably my favorite thing about it. I actually had thought even when she was on initially "I wonder if she's real or just a second personality of Grace" but then, other people acknowledged her existence. Anyway, my point is, I guessed early on maybe Grace adopted her into a second/dissociated personality. But who knows? Maybe that was an act? Or was it? The fact that there are no answers leaves it just kind of lukewarm to me. I get that that was intentional, and that this is based on a true story and in real life there aren't always tidy answers, all that....but it still just left me feeling ambivalent about the whole thing. Like there was no point in getting invested since it doesn't get resolved. I didn't really care about any of the characters except Mary a little. And the psychologist kind of confused me, too. Why was he sooo distraught over talking to her? Because he couldn't tell if she was lying, either? I mean, isn't he used to that? Or because he secretly desired her (which seemed to happen so instantly)? She wasn't THAT mind-boggling or unsettling to warrant his aggravation, I felt. Kind of a lame doctor he was, lol.

What am I missing? I have a feeling this is one of those where it'd be much more interesting/engaging if I had read the book.

Okay lol I'm being too harsh maybe. Anna Paquin is always fun, so there's that.

Sorry to be the party pooper but I was really baffled by the high praise. I watched 3 episodes but I can't do anymore. No, I'm not criticizing it for it's feminist leanings and I love slow-burn drama so it's nothing to do with impatience.

It's more that it just feels so cheap and tacky. The acting and dialogue feels so fake. It seems like one of those BBC specials that your mum watches every Sunday evening. I'm sure the book is very good but I just did not like the delivery here. I'm shocked this was by Mary Haron. Maybe I'm missing something.

I felt it was a very long haul for so little reward at the end. This seemed rambling and confused Would Mary have believed that the son of the house would marry a maid? Would the doctor not have wondered why Grace faints when she sees Jeremiah the Pedlar. Why indeed would she? And then the convenient split personality card. Mary was depicted as saucy - not crazy - and what motive would she have for helping to kill a woman in exactly the same circumstances that took her own life. On the evidence given I would have found both of them guilty - Grace's memory lapses were far too convenient for innocence. Yet she somehow ends up the victim heroine - ridiculous.