Amy Bradley Is Missing is a documentary about two young people in their twenties who went on a cruise with their parents. One of the adult children, Amy, disappeared during the cruise. She was smoking on the balcony at 5 am after drinking heavily all night. Nobody saw her after that.
In all likelihood, Amy fell into the water and drowned. She was extremely drunk, and the ocean is cruel. But the parents attached to the idea that she was somehow still alive and spent the next 25 years looking for her.
Everybody grieves in their own way, and this would have been fine if the Bradleys didn’t have another child, a son. Their toxic grief cannibalized his life. He’s now nearing fifty, never had children, never had much of a life, and attributes it to his parents’ all-consuming grief that ate up his life.
They turned grief into a hobby, trailing from one TV show to another. I wanted to feel compassion but it was hard because the miserable son whose life had been turned into a footnote to the Amy drama was always lurking in the background.
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