Several character smoke cigarettes frequently. Adults drink liquor and beer at home a character drives home drunk. Sexual visuals are generally confined to kissing and flirting, but a subplot concerns an HIV-positive character having an incestuous relationship who covertly lets her sexual partner watch her having sex with her boyfriend. Family deaths, including that of a very young child, drive much of this series' drama and show how trauma can cause long-term damage. The series opens with an act of bloody violence we see an axe, blood, gore, and then a bloody stump of a limb. One character, Thomas, has paranoid schizophrenia and his feelings and needs are taken seriously family members, including Dominick, advocate for him. It concerns a pair of twin brothers, Dominic and Thomas Birdsey ( Mark Ruffalo), who weather family and other traumas in the late 1980s in a small Connecticut town.
Parents need to know that I Know This Much Is True is a drama series adapted from the 1998 novel of the same name by Wally Lamb. At one point, a character who appears somewhat loose and sloppy is told not to drive, that she's "wasted." Despite being offered a ride home or to have a cab called, she drives away recklessly in her own car (which is presented as evidence that she's unstable and foolish).ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. I Know This Much Is True is a masterfully told story of alienation and connection, power and abuse, devastation and renewal-an unforgettable masterpiece.Several characters smoke cigarettes adults routinely drink beers and alcohol at home. Coming to terms with his life and lineage, Dominick struggles to find forgiveness and finally rebuild himself beyond the haunted shadow of his troubled twin. Dominick is forced to care for his brother as well as confront dark secrets and pain he has buried deep within himself-a journey of the soul that takes him beyond his blue-collar New England town to Sicily’s Mount Etna, the birthplace of his grandfather and namesake.
Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation.
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