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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 wit…
5 years, 5 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 erran…
5 years, 5 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. B…
5 years, 5 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 L…
5 years, 5 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 ex…
5 years, 6 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 paren…
5 years, 6 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 belie…
5 years, 6 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 wh…
5 years, 6 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, …
5 years, 7 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 Thursda…
5 years, 7 months ago