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Olive Kitteridge: Season 1

4 episodes Premiered Nov 2, 2014 Updated Oct 7, 2026

Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Pharmacy

Nov 2, 2014 · 66 min

Math teacher Olive Kitteridge attempts to help Kevin, a smart but timid student whose mother is suffering from depression. Her son Christopher isn't happy though. Henry goes on a h

S1·E2 Core

Incoming Tide

Nov 2, 2014 · 58 min

Kevin returns to Maine and Olive is able to convince him to stay over and attend Christopher's wedding-rehearsal dinner. Olive clashes with the bride's mother and scares the flower

S1·E3 Core

A Different Road

Nov 3, 2014 · 56 min

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 a

S1·E4 Mytharc

Security

Nov 3, 2014 · 63 min

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 mee