In our house, the second episode of Find My Family on ABC was highly anticipated. A few minutes before the show was scheduled to start, I did a search to see what the reviews were saying about the first episode that aired last week.

Even as the review page loaded, I realized I really probably didn’t want to read the comments – I’d seen the ones that came out before the show even started, I couldn’t imagine how bad some would be now. I’ve been in the adoption world long enough to hear the conflicting sides to every book, song and movie that airs, whatever people were saying about Find My Family shouldn’t matter if we like it.

I was right, of course. I found a page full of comments and the first 29 on the page were all negative and saying that ABC would die a slow and painful death with the airing of Find My Family. I was happy when comment # 30 was positive and praise, saying that we needed a TV Show like this. The next batch of comments following were all positive and hopeful that Find My Family would pack what it promised. Many adoptees and birth parents left comments wondering how they could be on the show, or they just posted their information. It seemed to be an interesting 50/50 split on whether the show was good or bad. It was also clear that it wasn’t just triad (adoption) members that liked the show, but many that clearly were not touched by adoption in any way. And then there was an alarming number of comments from adoptees that were pretty discouraging, saying they had nothing in common with their biological family, so why would they care about them, etc. Wow. Just wow. I decided to quit reading and actually watch Find My Family instead. It was too depressing reading them. And I was rather looking forward to a nice distracting hour of television.

I wasn’t real sure what to expect from this episode of Find My Family. The commercials were vague and only promised a happy ending, so I was ready to see what would happen.

I absolutely loved the first half of the show that related the story of a sister who was looking for her brother. She had always known she was adopted but by accident when she was 10 years old, she discovered an adoption paper that said she had a baby brother that was 16 months old at the time of her adoption. Crazy situation, but interesting regardless. When the Find My Family crew did their search, they found her brother, and also discovered that she had a sister. That was one of the most emotional reunions I have ever seen. All three of them crying, hugging and staring into each others eyes. Truly beautiful and real. Of course I won’t lie, again I was annoyed by the long walk up to the damn tree, but I’m getting used to it.
The second half of the show was awesome too. A daughter wanted to find her birth mother and tell her she didn’t hate her and to make sure that she was alright. The reunion was a bit on the awkward side, but I was actually really glad it was, because they aren’t all perfect, and they are nerve-wracking as can be. I felt that the camera’s captured the true feelings and emotions of these people and they seemed sincere. It was heart wrenching and beautiful all at the same time.

My favorite moment in the whole show was Tim and his tears. He was so emotional and it was beautiful and there is nothing better than seeing a host empathize with someone. You could see he clearly was touched by the whole thing and his emotion was real. I will admit that Lisa seems so calm and unemotional, but still real. Why is that? I can’t get through one of these shows without tears, I can’t understand how she doesn’t get a little emotional with the whole thing. When the brother was crying during the first half, it was so sad and raw and she barely blinked. I really like Lisa, so I am hoping she will come up with some REAL emotion and not forced for dramatic effect.

At any rate, they still have a HUGE fan! What did you think of this week’s episode of Find My Family?

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