Sorry For Your Loss: has Facebook created its first great TV show?

Elizabeth Olsen’s show about grief has turned heads and could be the start of a new onslaught from the social-media giant

Sorry For Your Loss is very much a 2018 television series. It stars a big-time film actor going through a period of emotional turmoil. It deals with a tricky, knotty subject matter that would have been handled much less ornately a decade ago. It found a home on a non-traditional channel after falling through at another network. It has, you sense, been made for me rather than you; the sort of series whose best hope comes from critical buzz that translates into awards chatter, bypassing mainstream audiences completely. You could realistically find this show anywhere: on HBO, AMC, Showtime, Netflix or Hulu.

But Sorry For Your Loss is on Facebook and, more precisely, its original content channel, Facebook Watch. It has been produced, funded and distributed by Facebook. It’s fair to call this a left turn for the platform.

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