The social media giant’s first global entry into TV, starring Elizabeth Olsen, is an unsentimental anatomisation of how essentially unknowable our loved ones really are
For those of you who feel that the number of televisual tributaries already combine to produce a foaming cataract of entertainment impossible to navigate in any meaningful way, I have bad news. Facebook Watch – Mark Zuckerberg’s on-demand video service and latest attempt, launched last year in the US and now being rolled out internationally, to colonise our hearts, minds and homes – is here. For those of you who like good telly, I have good news. Its lead initial offering, Sorry for Your Loss (Facebook Watch), is an endeavour fit to stand with the best of it.
Elizabeth Olsen, doing fine work in every sense on a much smaller, bleaker and more intense canvas than her most recent and famous incarnation as Scarlet Witch in the last three Avengers movies, plays grieving young widow Leigh Shaw who is just starting to try, with the help and hindrance of her family and brother-in-law, to pick up the pieces after her husband Matt’s death (the cause of which is not immediately clear) a few months earlier.
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