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What <em>Sorry for Your Loss </em>Understands About Grief

The gorgeous and poignant new drama from Facebook Watch stars Elizabeth Olsen as a young woman whose husband has died.
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By the end of the fourth episode of , a new drama debuting on Facebook Watch, I’d cried so hard that one of my contact lenses had been physically dislodged from my eye. It’s the kind of series that’s instantly so fully formed, so funny and candid and wrenching right from the start, that you almost question the emotional propriety of it all. Should dead husbands be such an efficient clapback in sibling spats? Should the sight of Elizabeth Olsen—eyes as large and?

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