This series uses research to find out the real background behind people. If you watch this one, you should consider it essential to watch the previous episode. There is an important lesson in watching both episodes.
Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell worked together on CBS This Morning for several years. In the previous episode, King's reactions to her family history were quite expressive. With this in mind, Norah's reactions to the surprises in her family history do not mirror Gayle's. One of these reactions to their family was almost dismay while the other one celebrates their surprise. These different reactions are a great lesson for everyone about how you should view yourself, and not how you try to reshape your own image.
This one has the bonus of Nancy Pelosi finding out about her Italian heritage. While she is amazed too, her reaction is yet in another direction. That is the important thing about every episode I have seen so far. People's different reactions tell you many things about them.
There is an old saying "Do as I say, not as I do." The surprises here in these back to back episodes are shock to these folks. Often but not always the reaction is "What my family told me I was is not actually what they previously did." Often families hide history, often beyond their deaths. This series brings these facts out. Are families always justified in hiding what they did? Not always, but sometimes the emotional reaction to the truth tells more than we can ever imagine about a person.
Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell worked together on CBS This Morning for several years. In the previous episode, King's reactions to her family history were quite expressive. With this in mind, Norah's reactions to the surprises in her family history do not mirror Gayle's. One of these reactions to their family was almost dismay while the other one celebrates their surprise. These different reactions are a great lesson for everyone about how you should view yourself, and not how you try to reshape your own image.
This one has the bonus of Nancy Pelosi finding out about her Italian heritage. While she is amazed too, her reaction is yet in another direction. That is the important thing about every episode I have seen so far. People's different reactions tell you many things about them.
There is an old saying "Do as I say, not as I do." The surprises here in these back to back episodes are shock to these folks. Often but not always the reaction is "What my family told me I was is not actually what they previously did." Often families hide history, often beyond their deaths. This series brings these facts out. Are families always justified in hiding what they did? Not always, but sometimes the emotional reaction to the truth tells more than we can ever imagine about a person.
