Not Just Me: (Almost Family) Pilot
October 2, 2019 7:24 PM - Season 1, Episode 1 - Subscribe
Only child Julia Bechley's life is turned upside down when her father reveals that, over the course of his prize-winning career as a pioneering fertility doctor, he used his own genetic material to conceive dozens of children. Reeling from this explosive revelation, Julia discovers two new sisters--former best friend Edie Palmer and ex-Olympic athlete Roxy Doyle.
TV Line - Fox's Almost Family Premiere: Grade It!
IndieWire Review: Brittany Snow and Timothy Hutton Can’t Almost Save This Fox Flop
Variety review: "Sometimes, a series can’t overcome the fundamental grossness of its premise, no matter what else it has to offer. In its first two installments, that’s the case for Fox’s new drama “Almost Family,” a show whose attempts to introduce tonal variation and lightness only emphasize how gruesome is the story at its center. “Almost Family” strives to be a drama about a woman (Brittany Snow) who discovers as an adult that she has several half-siblings whom she has to build bonds with as an adult, and to investigate what the concept of family truly means. Glinting out from behind every moment of tentative connection is the gross fact that her siblings come from her father’s inseminating women, without their consent, with his own genetic material to create his own descendants, a decision that’s neither endorsed nor decried by the series."
TV Line - Fox's Almost Family Premiere: Grade It!
IndieWire Review: Brittany Snow and Timothy Hutton Can’t Almost Save This Fox Flop
Variety review: "Sometimes, a series can’t overcome the fundamental grossness of its premise, no matter what else it has to offer. In its first two installments, that’s the case for Fox’s new drama “Almost Family,” a show whose attempts to introduce tonal variation and lightness only emphasize how gruesome is the story at its center. “Almost Family” strives to be a drama about a woman (Brittany Snow) who discovers as an adult that she has several half-siblings whom she has to build bonds with as an adult, and to investigate what the concept of family truly means. Glinting out from behind every moment of tentative connection is the gross fact that her siblings come from her father’s inseminating women, without their consent, with his own genetic material to create his own descendants, a decision that’s neither endorsed nor decried by the series."
I really liked the pilot and I hope they go in full for the consent angle. The other deceived sperm donor/adult shows have been way more tentative about the betrayal and trauma for the adult children and parents that can result and the way they used her hook-up for her realisation that her dad didn't care about her feelings was promising. Plus Timothy Hutton! I can't see him doing a show that goes full "this is actually funny and okay" because he's really good at charming assholes. The three sisters had a really nice easy chemistry and I liked the way the show centered on them. I'm hopeful.
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 12:28 AM on October 4, 2019
posted by dorothyisunderwood at 12:28 AM on October 4, 2019
I like Brittany Snow, but this is not as good as the original Australian version Sisters. Sisters was a comedy, but it looks like this version is a drama so, while the premise and most situations match the original, to me it just felt like it was missing something.
posted by Kris10_b at 1:38 PM on October 5, 2019
posted by Kris10_b at 1:38 PM on October 5, 2019
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posted by oh yeah! at 7:50 PM on October 2, 2019