'Alias Grace' adapter Sarah Polley on age-old injustice and Harvey Weinstein
Based on the 1996 novel by Margaret Atwood, who is already having a major small-screen triumph thanks to Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale," the six-part Netflix series "Alias Grace" gives viewers a starkly compelling reason to forget about 21st-century gender nightmares for a while, and to focus instead on the worst the 19th century had to offer women.
The limited series comes from many hands, but especially those of Toronto-born producer and screenwriter Sarah Polley, who has done a first-rate job with the 1843-set story of Grace Marks (Sarah Gadon), convicted for the murders of
