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Daniel D'Addario
Chief TV Critic
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What may be most extraordinary about Savannah Guthrie’s return to “Today” was just how ordinary it seemed.
This was by design. Guthrie, the long-serving co-host of NBC’s morning news show, has been absent from the program since her mother Nancy was reported missing on Feb. 1. “Today” had covered the case, in the early days of the investigation, aggressively, seemingly both out of a sense that they couldn’t ignore news affecting their own TV family and out of a desire to shake loose potential leads. As time has passed, though, Guthrie had publicly expressed — including as an interview subject on “Today” — a desire to take her family tragedy out of the center of the frame. “Well, here we go, ready or not,” she told her co-anchor Craig Melvin at the top of the broadcast. “Let’s do the news.”
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