Almost Family: Season 1

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Almost Family: Julia & Edie Give Roxy Some Tough Love

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FOX | Season Premiere Date: October 2, 2019

Summary: Only child Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow) life is changed forever after it is revealed her fertility doctor father (Timothy Hutton) had used his own sperm on his patients, resulting in potential numbers of half-siblings, including Edie (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Roxy (Emily Osment) in this drama originally titled Not Just Me and based on theOnly child Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow) life is changed forever after it is revealed her fertility doctor father (Timothy Hutton) had used his own sperm on his patients, resulting in potential numbers of half-siblings, including Edie (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Roxy (Emily Osment) in this drama originally titled Not Just Me and based on the Australian series called Sisters.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

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Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E13. Permanent AF; Expectant AF
Air Date: February 22, 2020
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S1:E13. Expectant AF
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E13. Expectant AF
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Glenn Garvin

Sep 29, 2019

Easily the most promising series of the fall broadcast season: funny, poignant, and drenched in the chemistry between three charismatic actresses playing women who suddenly learn they're sisters. Read full review

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Oct 2, 2019

Standout performances and what looks to be a sure-fire, durable premise give Fox’s Almost Family the key ingredients of a potentially long-running, soapy serial drama. Read full review

Rob Owen

Sep 23, 2019

The cutesy new-sisters vibe sits awkwardly next to the dad’s-accused-of-sexual-assault plot. Read full review

Kristen Baldwin

Sep 30, 2019

Almost Family doesn’t really want to deal with female anger, or the revolting nature of its own premise. Instead, it aims to spin stories about community and family that are just so darn heartwarming, we’ll forget they’re all based on a fertility felony. Like everything else about this show, it just doesn’t work. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

Oct 2, 2019

It's definitely exhausting and not in a "This is challenging my expectations and forcing me to make tough moral choices" way — but in a "Sometimes American TV is a factory assembly line and nobody in the assembly line is on the same page and the widget you started off with can become a mismatched gizmo with nobody exactly being at fault" way. Read full review

The Daily Beast Kevin Fallon

Oct 1, 2019

Almost Family gets credit for taking the biggest swing at a premise, and for whiffing it with gusto: What if we did This Is Us, but with medical rape? Once you learn the plot of Almost Family, the tone it takes is patently outrageous. ... Is it possible to move beyond aghast feelings over the premise and tone, and judge the series on its other merits? A Jason Katims superfan, surely I would be seduced by the show’s sweetness and emotionality anyway, right? Well... no. I couldn’t make the leap. Read full review

Kelly Lawler

Oct 3, 2019

It is tonally dissonant in the most extreme sense, a case of two wildly incompatible concepts crushed together so inelegantly that the result is a morally reprehensible, skin-crawling drama. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 1

38
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 2, 2019
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  S1:E13. Permanent AF; Expectant AF
  Air Date: February 22, 2020
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  S1:E13. Expectant AF
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E13. Expectant AF
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
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  S1:E13. Expectant AF
  Air Date: February 22, 2020
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  S1:E12. Permanent AF
  Air Date: January 20, 2020
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  S1:E12. Permanent AF
  Air Date: January 20, 2020
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  S1:E11. Generational AF
  Air Date: January 15, 2020
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  S1:E10. Courageous AF
  Air Date: January 6, 2020
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  S1:E9. Rehabilitated AF
  Air Date: December 30, 2019
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  S1:E8. Fertile AF
  Air Date: December 11, 2019
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  S1:E7. Thankful AF
  Air Date: November 28, 2019
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  S1:E6. Kosher AF
  Air Date: November 13, 2019
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  S1:E5. Risky AF
  Air Date: November 6, 2019
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  S1:E4. Fake AF
  Air Date: October 30, 2019
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  S1:E4. Fake AF
  Air Date: November 6, 2019
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  S1:E3. Notorious AF
  Air Date: October 16, 2019
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  S1:E2. Related AF
  Air Date: October 9, 2019
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  S1:E1. Pilot
  Air Date: October 2, 2019