Your Thoughts: When Families Grieve Sesame Special

[Phillip]

This Wednesday night, PBS will be airing a very special Sesame Street program “When Families Grieve” to help children and families who have recently lost a loved one. The prime time special premieres at 8 pm eastern, 7 pm central on PBS.

You can find out all about the special here…
http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2010/040810.shtml

After your watch the show, please share your thoughts.

 

[Oscarfan]

I'm already tearing up!

 

[Frogpuppeteer]

I watched it all the way through, it def had its tear jerking moments and overall i give it a thumbs up for what they did

However i feel IMO that the parts with Elmo and his family did not fit at all, i felt them almost mocking to at least 3 of the families in this special. they were well put together but the transition between the real world families and Elmo's family didn't work for me.

i feel they almost should've been their own separate part of the special

the parts with Katie Couric and Elmo & Jessie i liked they seemed proper

over all thumbs up for the Special i enjoyed it in a way and i admire what they did, and my heart goes out to those families

 

[antsamthompson9]

I thought the special was pretty good. I liked how they had some parts with Elmo's family interviewed just like the real-life families. They should have done that in the previous two specials.

 

[antsamthompson9]

Sesame Workshop put the whole special on their website:http://www.sesameworkshop.org/grief. And it's in widescreen!

 

[Oscarfan]

http://www.sesamestreetfamilyconnections.org/grownups/grief/

The full story about Uncle Jack is up for viewing. It works much better this way than the snippets that were in the special.

 

[Frogpuppeteer]

i like the elmo segment alot better separated i think it works much much better this way

 

[HootsytheOwl]

Talking About Grief

Hi there.

What a good special that was! I liked the way most of it was done, except for the way that Katie Couric's demeanor and decor during the Elmo/Jessie interviews seemed like a psychologist. (Yecch!) I hope this special helps people who are going through grief at any stage of their life. I really felt bad for the children and their parents in the special. At some parts it was hard to watch, because it was so very sad. If I were to give this a rating I think I'd give it a 9.


Your dear friend,
Kitt.

 

[antsamthompson9]

http://www.sesamestreetfamilyconnections.org/grownups/grief/
The full story about Uncle Jack is up for viewing. It works much better this way than the snippets that were in the special.

Thanks for the link. That was better than the special.

 

[dwayne1115]

I'm going to watch this and comment on it latter.