HBO Miniseries Shot In Hamilton, On North Shore Takes Home Six Emmy's

By ADAM SWIFT (Patch Staff)

Photo credit Jojo Whilden/HBO

An HBO miniseries shot in Hamilton and other locations across the North Shore was a big winner at Sunday night’s Emmy Awards.

Olive Kitteridge took home six Emmy’s, and was nominated for 13.

The awards included acting nods for stars Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, American treasure Bill Murray, and the award for Best Limited Series.

The movie was shot in 2013, and some of the shooting locations included Bradley Palmer State Park in Hamilton and Topsfield, and the Cabot Theatre and Beverly Airport in Beverly.

“Making this movie, this four-hour movie, was really a — sort of a metaphysical, supernatural, transpersonal ‘dark night of the soul’ kind of experience,” director Lisa Cholodenko said in her acceptance speech.

The miniseries is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Elizabeth Strout. The screenplay was written by Jane Anderson

“Olive Kitteridge tells the alternately poignantly sweet, acerbically funny, and devastatingly tragic story of a seemingly placid New England town wrought with illicit affairs, crime and tragedy, told through the lens of Olive, whose wicked wit and harsh demeanor mask a warm but troubled heart and a staunch moral center,” according to the Film Office’s synopsis.

NPR praised Olive Kitteridge as telling “a poignant, slow-burn story that is too long for a movie theater and too subtle for a typical TV series.”