And in the end also facebook landed in the great universe of streaming platforms and did so with a channel (facebook of course) with a catchy, simple and immediate name:

Facebook Watch.

Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and sisters now had another great competitor. Zuckerberg had announced a long time ago the will to enter this market and in fall 2018 the project saw the light, anticipating by a few months Apple and Disney that there's to say have invested exorbitant amounts of money on entering the world of TV entertainment unlike Facebook that seems to want to enter it in a soft and gradual way.

And you could say that the first series of Facebook Watch is a real manifesto of intent.

A small series of 10 episodes of 30 minutes.

Zero special effects. No action. A very uncoordinated storyline and an excellent but very dry cast.

In short, you do not expect spaceships, lightsabers, Oscar awards or anything else but a solid product and absolute level that yes.

We're talking about "Sorry For Your Loss" series starring Elizabeth Olsen that we'll soon see on Disney + in the series dedicated to Scarlet Witch, a character she played in the universe of the Avengers.

The series is a family drama of those emotionally devastating that tackles a subject as delicate as death by adding a very original and deep note or the reaction to a serious mourning when it would not be natural to be in mourning or at about 30 years old.

The Olsen plays, in fact, Leigh, a young woman not even 30 years old from whom fate has snatched the young husband 29 years old.

The series starts a few weeks after Matt's death and tries to examine and dig into the soul of a woman who still has her whole life ahead of her but no longer has the ground she had chosen to tread under her feet. The world goes on, life goes on but Leigh's world no longer exists, her life no longer exists.
How do you react to that?

Leigh will say at some point:

I'd like to stop suffering every moment of the day, but to stop suffering would mean forgetting him and I don't want to forget him.
A very simple concept, but one that none of us could answer.

What does it mean to go on when at 30 years old you lost the love of your life and the life you were building piece by piece with him?

What to do now that you are new singles, alone, separated from death and your friends are trying to make a career, start creating new families, start inviting you to their weddings while others still want to spend sleepless nights stealing the last remnants of youth before adulthood?

Where does a young widow fit into this world?

How could she find the stimulation to try and make a career?

Where would she find the strength to fall back in love?

And how could she spend a night of fun, sex and drinking without feeling terribly empty the next day?

Is Leigh's life really over?

Is there such a thing as "after"?

Maybe yes, maybe no, but she will never be the same person again, she will never be a person free of emotional and mental conditioning.

The show is also passionate because she's good at sending us back with flashbacks to the moments before the accident. Tender and joyful but also difficult moments because of the pathological depression Matt suffered from and that made him humoral and deeply unhappy when the "fog went away" as he confesses to his therapist in one of the most beautiful statements of the year.

Matt says about the depression that:

Everyone thinks it's like a fog that wraps around your mind and doesn't let you think.
It's exactly the opposite. When it comes it's like a strong wind that sweeps that fog and allows me to see the truth, to see the world as it is. And that's when I realize that it's all useless, irremediable and depression takes over.
A very powerful point of view about one of the most widespread diseases of our time.

Facebook at the end of each episode invites everyone to visit a website where they can confront themselves in case of anxiety and depression. A strong and appreciated awareness of the topic.

The people in this series have their space and their dignity and taken will become a family to love.

Sorry For Your Loss is without doubt one of the best series of 2018. A series that moves, makes you think and excites in a simple and never trivial way.

Great debut for Facebook Watch.