The Girl from Plainville

The performances and subject matter are pretty hard to criticise - Elle Fanning in particular is superb and is an eerily good likeness to the real Michelle Carter - the story is sadly compelling too. It occasionally dragged (despite the very sad and tragic nature of the real life story it depicted) so ideally it would have benefited from being a couple of episodes shorter. One main criticism I have though is that the text messaging was so frequent (plus an integral part of the story) that it should have been subtitled like the dialogue was. I had to keep stopping it to look closely at what was being said in the texts which was annoying!

I was really looking forward to this because I remember this story from the news. Needs editing, and a lot of it. This could have been told in half the time. The acting is decent. One big pet peeve: expecting the audience to read numerous texts from a phone screen. Not everyone has an 85" TV. This seems so basic to me.

Intriguing story. But so far pacing is terrible. A mini series off a few episodes would have sufficed. I am getting tired off over dramatized docuseries. I would have given it 4 stars but Chloe Sevigny is carrying the entire show. She's so good.

Elle Fanning does an amazing job on this - she portrays the desperate teen grasping for every bit of attention she can get superbly. As for the series, only three episodes in, so I can't comment on the plot in its entirety - but there are already such negative reviews on here from people that have probably watched ten minutes of it, so I wanted to balance it out and let people know that Elle's acting alone is a good enough reason to give this show a chance and the real life events it's based on make a great story.

The flashbacks and the cuts to them "live" and together when they are just texting is very confusing. They jump around so much with little indication of where we are in the sequence of events. Acting is okay, I think Elle Fanning portrays Michelle pretty well. Could have been done in less episodes, I'm gonna power through to finish, but it drags a bit.