Mary Kills People Season 1

Right now you can watch Mary Kills People Season 1 on and — and it holds up to as much attention as you give it. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. Watch it for Caroline Dhavernas — one of the stronger performances out there right now. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Mary Kills People Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Mary Kills People Season 1 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 1 follows Dr. Mary Harris, an overworked single mother and ER doctor who also moonlights as an underground angel of death, working outside the law assisting patients who want to die on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar but business is booming, and her double life is getting complicated. Caroline Dhavernas and Jay Ryan lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2017. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping everything up in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

For anyone looking for storytelling that takes its characters seriously, Mary Kills People Season 1 delivers. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Caroline Dhavernas's work here is the kind that gets referenced in career retrospectives. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.