History Series / AlmostFamily

!Examples:

* MixedAncestry: Edie is biracial, having a Black mother and White father. Her mother is also indicated to have mixed race ancestry, since she's even lighter than Edie.

** Edie and Amanda first have sex in a room of the courthouse after they met while representing opposing sides on a case. This continues before both of them realize this is too dangerous.

Julia Bechley (Creator/BrittanySnow) is shocked to learn that her father, fertility specialist Dr. Leon Bechley (Creator/TimothyHutton) has conceived around 100 children using his own sperm by in-vitro fertilization. To cope as her father is indicted and she's fired from the clinic where he worked, Julia bonds with two of the half-sisters whom she's just met as a result: Edie Palmer (Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke), who she's been friends before, and former Olympic athlete Roxy Doyle (Creator/EmilyOsment). Both of them also have their own issues, and together all three cope while even more secrets come to light. Based on the Australian series ''Sisters'', it aired on {{Creator/FOX}}.

* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Julia]] blurts out Mark is her birth father shortly after they've met, to his surprise, after having figured it out. She apologizes, saying that wasn't how she'd planned it.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Edie and Amanda, the only women of color in the main cast, who are also lesbians.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** Edie cheats on her husband Tim after falling for Amanda, until eventually she confesses it to him. He's very understanding in the circumstances.
** Julia's deceased mother once cheated on her father [[spoiler: and as a result she isn't biologically his]].

* LipstickLesbian: Edie and Amanda qualify, dressing and acting in a traditionally feminine way.

Julia Bechley (Creator/BrittanySnow) is shocked to learn that her father, fertility specialist Dr. Leon Bechley (Creator/TimothyHutton) has conceived around 100 children using his own sperm by in-vitro fertilization. To cope as her father is indicted and she's fired from the clinic where he worked, Julia bonds with two of the half-sisters whom she's just met as a result: Edie Palmer (Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke), who she's been friends before, and former Olympic athlete Roxy Doyle (Creator/EmilyOsment). Both of them also have their own issues, and together all three cope while even more secrets come to light. Based on the Australian series ''Sisters'', it airs on {{Creator/FOX}}.

* NoBisexuals: Despite having a husband and never finding women attractive before, the possibility that Edie is bisexual rather than a lesbian isn't brought up (it appears she's been in deep denial about this). The closest is a discussion of the "lesbian spectrum," where Amanda claims that all women fall on a spectrum of 0 to 100% gay, referring to herself (a lesbian) as 80% attracted to women and 20% attracted to men, and when Edie claims she's "50/50," Amanda wants to "raise that number."

* NoBisexuals: Despite having a husband and never finding women attractive before, the possibility that Edie is bisexual rather than a lesbian isn't brought up (it appears she's been in deep denial about this).

* BiTheWay: [[spoiler:Julia's]] birth father Mark says he was mostly in straight relationships when he had been with her mom, indicating he's probably bisexual.

* HollywoodGenetics: Edie's mother (who's played Tamara Tunie) is lighter-skinned than she is. Her birth father turns out to be white though, which is genetically quite unlikely.

** Julia's deceased mother once cheated on her father [[spoiler: and as a result she isn't biologically his]].
* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler: Julia]] learns she isn't biologically related to her father due to her deceased mother's affair.

* HollywoodLaw: {{Subverted}}. Though at first neither Edie nor Amanda notes that their affair could get them both sanctioned or even disbarred, as they're working on the opposite sides of a case, it's later explicitly brought up.

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Leon Bechley inflicted this on a hundred or more couples, as he used his sperm to perform IVF, not the men's. As a result, dozens of people come out to connect with each other/him or sue (he's also indicted for fraud on a huge scale).

* WhosYourDaddy: [[spoiler: Julia]] learns she isn't biologically related to her father due to her deceased mother's affair, and sets out to find her birth father.

** Julia hooked up with a guy in the bathroom (who it turns out is her half-brother, [[SurpriseIncest though she didn't know it]]).

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Edie and Amanda first have sex in a room of the courthouse after they met while representing opposing sides on a case. This continues before both of them realize this is too dangerous.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Edie and Amanda first have sex in a room of the courthouse after they met representing opposing sides on a case. This continues before both of them realize this is too dangerous.

* ClosetKey: Victoria Cartegena serves as this for Edie, who'd never realized her sexuality before.

* HollywoodLaw: {{Subverted}}. Though at first neither Edie nor Victoria mentions that their affair could get them both sanctioned or even disbarred, as they're working on the opposite sides of a case, it's later explicitly brought up.

* LipstickLesbian: Edie and Victoria qualify, dressing and acting in a traditionally feminine way.
* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Edie and Victoria first have sex in a room of the courthouse after they met representing opposing sides on a case. This continues before both of them realize this is too dangerous.

** Edie cheats on her husband Tim after falling for Victoria, until eventually she confesses it to him. He's very understanding in the circumstances.

Julia Bechley (Creator/BrittanySnow) is shocked to learn that her father, fertility specialist Dr. Leon Bechley (Creator/TimothyHutton) has conceived around 100 children using his own sperm by in-vitro fertilization. To cope as her father is indicted and she's fired from the clinic where he worked, Julia bonds with two of the half-sisters whom she's just met as a result: Edie Palmer (Creator/MegalynEchikunwoke), who she's been friends before, and former Olympic athlete Roxy Doyle (Music/EmilyOsment). Both of them also have their own issues, and together all three cope while even more secrets come to light. Based on the Australian series ''Sisters'', it airs on {{Creator/FOX}}.

* NoBisexuals: Despite never having a husband and never finding women attractive before, the possibility that Edie is bisexual rather than a lesbian isn't brought up (it appears she's been in deep denial about it).

* LipstickLesbian: Most of the lesbians shown on the series so far qualify, dressing and acting in a traditionally feminine way.

* HollywoodLaw: {{Subverted}}. Though at first neither Edie nor Victoria mentions that their affair could get them sanctioned or even disbarred, as they're working on the opposite sides of a case, it's later explicitly brought up.