
Oprah and Prince Harry talk mental health in 'The Me You Can't See,' and '1971' hits the right notes
CNN
Apple TV+ premieres a pair of docuseries this week, but the one with the splashier marquee, the Oprah Winfrey-Prince Harry-produced mental-health program "The Me You Can't See," runs a distant second behind "1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything," a hyperbolic title that's still tons of fun to watch (and hear).
"The Me You Can't See" falls into the public-service category -- what for a time, during the latter part of Winfrey's daytime show, was called "broccoli TV" -- using a mix of celebrities and ordinary folks to try removing the stigma from seeking help. "There is no shame in this," Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, says during a conversation with Winfrey that seeks to demystify therapy, while noting that Covid-19 has "magnified" the issues that people face. The chat includes his own testimonial about overcoming his family's posture toward therapy and his need "to heal myself from the past."
More than two decades ago, on January 24, 2004, I landed in Baghdad as a legal adviser, assigned an office in what was then known as the Green Zone. It was raining and cold, and my duffle bag was thrown into a puddle off the C-130 aircraft that had just done a corkscrew dive to reach the runway without risk of ground fire. Young American soldiers greeted me as we piled into a vehicle, sped out of the airport complex and then along a road called the “Highway of Death” due to car bombs and snipers.












