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The Blue Chair
Season 5 Episode 9
Nadia Owusu always worshipped her father, and his death when she was just 13 turned her world upside down. Fifteen years later, a bitter argument with her stepmother creates a brand new fault line in…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Secret Garden
Season 5 Episode 8
As a kid, Liza Rodman spent her summers in Provincetown, trying her best to stay out of her volatile mother’s way. Her favorite escape: running errands with family friend Tony, who soon became her de…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Fainting Goat Syndrome
Season 5 Episode 7
Nicole Georges never knew her father. From the time she was little, she was told he died when she was just an infant—of colon cancer, her mom said. But after getting a strange palm reading in her ear…
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
My Lolita
Season 5 Episode 6
At just 17 years old, Alisson Wood began a dangerous entanglement with a creative writing teacher at her school, who gifted her a copy of Nabokov’s Lolita. To hear “Mr. North” tell it, Lolita is the …
Published on 4 years, 7 months ago
Facing Forward
Season 5 Episode 5
Growing up in post-war America, Alexander Wolff had a vague sense that his father, Nico, and his grandfather, Kurt, had two very different wartime experiences. But it wasn’t until he was an adult tha…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Back Home
Season 5 Episode 4
Emma Ramos grew up in a deeply religious, and deeply patriarchal, town in Mexico, where carving out an independent life for herself—outside her parents’ expectations—was a constant negotiation. Which…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
The Goofy Ring
Season 5 Episode 3
As a law student, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich was vehemently opposed to the death penalty, even in the most heinous of crimes. Yet their deeply-held beliefs were put to the test after watching the confess…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Goddess of Compassion
Season 5 Episode 2
Ly Tran’s father refused to accept any kind of weakness in his children—not even something as commonplace, and easily remedied, as poor vision. So when then-eight-year-old Ly brought a note home from…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
The Vampire Bat
Season 5 Episode 1
What’s it like to live your life so deep undercover, handling secrets that are so sensitive, not even the people who know you best—not your friends, not your siblings, not your parents—can know what …
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago
Family Secrets: Season 5 Trailer
Season 5
Join us for more incredible stories about what happens when long-held family secrets come to light. The new season of Family Secrets launches Thursday, April 1.
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Published on 4 years, 9 months ago