EPISODE
SEASON
This Close - Season 1
Through a chain of emotional and energizing events, this series pursues two deaf companions, Kate and Michael, live in Los Angeles. Simultaneously, Kate has issues about her engagement and Michael can't overlook the separation from his former partner. They should be closer from one another to conquer these hard times.
5 December 1968, San Francisco, California, USA
11 July 1963, Medford, Oregon, USA
24 April 1980, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
April 04, 2018
... the visuals and acting are so good, that it's worth watching just for that.January 04, 2019
Even when the story sags here and there, This Close is a reminder of the creative value of more inclusive storytelling:March 01, 2018
It's a frank and refreshing depiction of friendship, disability, and the different ways we can be intimate with other human beings. It's also entertaining as all hell.March 01, 2018
As Kate, [Shoshannah Stern] shifts ably from apologetic to fiery to vulnerable.February 12, 2018
It's an unconventional love story that needs another season to figure out what it really wants to be, and how best to get there. At least the most important elements -- or both of them, anyway -- are in place.February 16, 2018
This Close is groundbreaking, necessary, and the fact that it is a genuinely great series - down to its writing, performances, and subject matter - only proves that a platform for this kind of storytelling is long overdue.January 04, 2019
Intimate, graphic and immediately engaging.January 03, 2019
A miscommunicated series about the myriad ways we can miscommunicate, This Close is farther from the mark it tries to hit than its title implies.March 01, 2018
But Stern and Feldman are more than enough reason to watch; they deserve to be in many more series and movies to come, but not before this series makes them heard.January 04, 2019
Directed by Andrew Ahn, the six 30-minute episodes are handsomely fashioned.