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Alison Herman
TV Critic
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Courtesy of NBC Savannah Guthrie has returned to the airwaves of “Today,” but not as an anchor — as a subject.
Nearly two months into the unimaginable ordeal of her 84-year-old mother Nancy’s kidnapping from her home in Tucson, Guthrie sat down with her colleague, confidant and now emergency stand-in Hoda Kotb for her first public interview addressing her family’s ongoing crisis. Their conversation, airing in two parts Thursday and Friday, is frankly agonizing to watch: both Guthrie and Kotb are tearful throughout, in contrast with the firm composure typically demanded of news anchors. As the two women face one another on a couch, Guthrie contemplates the horrifying possibility that Nancy was targeted “because of me,” calling the scenario “too much to bear.” That both women are beloved, longtime fixtures only makes the contrast from their typical screen personae more striking.
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