"Sorry for Your Loss" Recap, Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2

Weekly review of the new Elizabeth Olsen show about grief on Facebook Watch.

The first four episodes of "Sorry for Your Loss" debuted today on Facebook Watch, and here at Legacy we'll be watching and discussing the show right there with you every week. Who's "we?" Well, here in the recap blog, I'm Linnea Crowther, and I've been writing about life, death, and grief since Legacy was founded almost 20 years ago. Meanwhile, over on our Facebook page, our new grief correspondent Shelby Forsythia is doing a video recap chat you can watch live at 11am Eastern/10am Central (or anytime afterward, starting later today).

The half-hour dramedy is the story of Leigh (Elizabeth Olsen), a young widow whose husband, Matt, died three months before the show's action begins. Her network of family and friends includes her mom, Amy, her sister, Jules, and Matt's brother, Danny. The action shifts frequently between the present day and flashbacks to points throughout Leigh and Matt's relationship.

Let's jump right in with what happens in episodes 1 ("One Fun Thing") and 2 ("Keep, Toss, Giveaway").

As the show opens, the focus is very much on Leigh navigating her grief. I mean that literally: The first scene is a tight close-up focusing on her face, then widening to show her at her weekly grief support group. But it's metaphorical too, in the way the first two-thirds or so of the episode are all about how Leigh is dealing — and not dealing — with her husband's death. But that begins to change as the episode comes to a close and we see the impact of Matt's death on the other people in his life, particularly Danny.

In episode two, the focus widens out even further as we see how even Jules and Amy are still wrestling with grief. And the loss of a beloved family member isn't the only thing weighing on Jules and Amy. Jules is in recovery from addiction, doing her best to hang on to her sobriety as she grieves. And Amy is a single mom trying to keep a business afloat.

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