I am somewhat sate of all these flashy trailers that leave me breathing air through my mouth and then i realize i've fallen for the same old marketing trick.Like many others that probably watched this show, i myself have not read the book, nor do i intend to because it just leaves me questioning so many different aspects of this book/show that i never thought i would be questioning. What i expected was a psychologically disturbed pathological liar that got away with killing and manipulating more than five people in her favor, what i got was a bible study of the feminist mind and her hot 50 year old master. He is hot, stop denying it.The last two episodes should or could have been so much more but they never culminated for me it just went up, up and then down down and flatlined.I have the feeling we are probably missing a lot of backstory. Nevertheless i think the show was good...maybe. Let's leave it to god shall we?

Wonderfully acted with beautiful sets and of course, a superb script. Unfortunately, Atwood's words are sometimes at the mercy of tepid pacing made worse by gratuitous and flowery music, a device often used by filmmakers to compensate for lack of dynamics in the direction. While Sarah Gadon's performance is a wonder, she often speaks with such rapid-fire mumbling as to obscure the words she is speaking. I found myself watching about 10 minutes at a time, often with subtitles, before my brain began tuning out. It all begins to be a bit of a drag by episode 3. The superb script by Polley from Atwood's words deserves a bit more meat on the bones of the direction. As it is, "Alias Grace" is worth watching if you can forgive the uncomfortable, frustrating moments, of which there are too many.

Right out of the gate, this telling of Margaret Atwood's tale seems absurd. It doesn't improve much upon further watching. Atwood took a historical event and made it much more interesting and compelling than it probably was in real life. Chances are it's a sad, sordid, actual story wherein this girl actually did commit these murders and was a historical anomaly from that perspective as men committed most murders back then and still do today.

I was drawn into the era of story which I never read and was clueless. Its claiming based on true story certainly added another enticing element. And it did not disappoint me with its surprisingly well thought out storyline.In my view, Dr. Jordan's character was brilliantly put and relevant despite of its fictional nature hence the scenario could not be done without. The degree of truth in reality might not be followed through . However, it's not overly dramatized without merits.I am intrigued by Ms. Atwood's creativity to build the true event into such a logically unfolding and gripping story. I do not think there would be any diagnoses of multiple personality disorder exited or awareness even in 19th century. Yet, it displayed the causes of the horrendous crime at that time despite its half fictional story. What amazed me the most was the psychopathic killings of James McDermott's part explained Grace's being a unwilling accomplice which would fit into the modern murder profile of such kind. I would give Ms. Atwood two thumbs up on that. Once a while I enjoy well-crafted psychopath thrillers without overwhelmingly graphic images for a change. This definitely would be one of them.