Episode 1

A grown son finally speaks to his father.

What comes out is not the tidy version the rest of the family prefers. It is the version that has been sitting in the dark for years: the day everything fractured, the living room, the blue couch with the strange flowers, the moment the announcement was made and the room changed temperature. He was seventeen. His brother was too young to understand. His sister was lost in her own grief. Their mother did not get out of bed for four days. She cried in her sleep. He was the one who put a towel under her head so the pillow would not be ruined. He was the one who brought water she never seemed to drink. He was the one who stood over the three of them on the bathroom floor and lied that everything would be all right.

He has never stopped being angry about it. Not rea ...