Alias Grace

“You don’t have to think ahead and worry about the consequences of what you do.”

Margaret Atwood’s brilliant character, Alias Grace, speaking to the male doctor asking her about her chores in a way that made it clear to her that he really did not know what she did when she did chores. Powerfully disturbing TV drama.

Painful yet as illuminating as it is haunting to witness. 

The Guardian review of the TV adaptation...

"The elusiveness of the truth--and the anti-immigrant sentiment and class distinctions that permeate the story--resonate in the age of fake news, and especially at a time when the weigh we give to women's stories is under consideration. 

Grace's version of events in modified by her lawyer, perverted by the gutter press, ignored by the asylum doctors and distorted by her own desire to amuse, protect and perhaps avenge herself on a world in which she has, from childhood, been exposed to the worst that the men who run it have to offer."

This is another Atwood story that is very difficult to watch. While set in another time it feels like it pulls a curtain aside on the world we live in today.