‘Nuclear Family’: Ry Russo-Young Revisits Painful Family Traumas To Reckon With Her Past [Review]
Given the many personalities in all our families and the way we often all perceive past traumatic events differently, making a probing documentary about your own family sh*t could end up either highly damaging to those relationships, exploitative of genuine pain, self-serving, or in some cases, very navel-gazing. And yet filmmaker Ry Russo-Young’s terrific new HBO documentary series, “Nuclear Family,” avoids all those familiar trappings, instead crafting something just extraordinarily intimate, personal, and deeply captivating.