I Know This Much Is True review, Culture Whisper
This is hardly the time for misery porn. But often the keenest tragedies stockpile so much hurt that they function as an escape – albeit a cold, grey and lonely one.
Throughout I Know This Much Is True, the house painter Dominick Birdsey (Mark Ruffalo) drowns in stories of child abuse, murder, self-mutilation and rape. Whenever you think turning a worse corner is impossible, a new tragedy strikes or an old trauma is revealed that tests him further. Other than the biblical Job, it’s hard to imagine a more unfortunate man.
Although these are maybe the worst time to release such a drama, this six-part series is an emotional distraction of the heaviest kind. Maybe Dominick’s troubles can help us forget our own for a while.
