

EPISODE
SEASON
This Close - Season 1
Kate is deaf and she battles at her life in view of certain issues about her relationship and her work. Her friend, Michael who has about similar issues, is additionally deaf. At these tough times, friends must be closer for one another.














March 31, 1964 in Portland, Maine, USA


19 February 1963, New York City, New York, USA



20 January 1941, Steelton, Pennsylvania, USA






25 March 1962, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA


January 04, 2019
Directed by Andrew Ahn, the six 30-minute episodes are handsomely fashioned.
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.
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.
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.
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
As Kate, [Shoshannah Stern] shifts ably from apologetic to fiery to vulnerable.
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.
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.