不浪費的奢華

You and your filthy mouth

Why are you so hateful?

The title character is a thorny, caustic school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine.

The director calls it a “traumedy,” a miniseries that “mixes serious drama with dry humour.”

Olive is a sublimely difficult, complex woman. To call her prickly would be a vast understatement. She is, by turns, manic in her acid-tongued commentary to others and tortured by flashes of awareness about how brutal her candour can be. In the opening scene, Olive, in her 70s, is about to shoot herself, but we don’t really know her then. The story then shifts back to several decades earlier. Olive is a schoolteacher, tough on her students, tough on her husband. He runs the small-town pharmacy and takes pleasure in helping others. Unfailingly affable, he is Olive’s opposite.