Great Photo, Lovely Life

A raw, hard-to-watch new HBO documentary that reminds us just how banal evil can be.

The beauty of the film is that it doesn’t ask you to judge Debi or her mother, so much as to reckon with their complicity, which is fraught and messy and infuriating and tragic all at once.

A gut-wrenching saga about illuminating the darkest corners of private lives, and about the difficulty—and perhaps unjustness—of genuine Christian forgiveness.

A disturbing but ultimately illuminating documentary about the legacy of sex abuse, and how it reverberates across generations