Alias Grace

Created by Sarah Polley

On CBC Television

A slow-burn psychological miniseries that uses the psychiatrist-patient frame to excavate memory, trauma, and unreliable truth from inside a woman's fractured consciousness.

Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A decade after, Dr. Simon Jordan tries to help Grace recall her past.