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Rectify (2013)First aired 22 Apr 2013A man returns from death row to relatives who have organised much of their lives around his absence. The family cannot agree on what support, caution or ordinary conversation should now look like. Its patient four-season story makes space for care alongside fear and resentment, with sexual…0
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Queen Sugar (2016)First aired 6 Sept 2016The Bordelon siblings inherit land that carries practical debts and generations of meaning. Their different ideas about responsibility make work, parenting and local history inseparable. It sustained a substantial, devoted audience on OWN, so the discovery invitation is broader recognition of its…0
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The Riches (2007)First aired 12 Mar 2007A family of itinerant con artists takes over a wealthy household's identity and discovers that the impersonation places different demands on each member. The central problem is who gets to decide what their new life costs. Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver make the affection and coercion equally…0
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The A Word (2016)First aired 22 Mar 2016A child's autism diagnosis makes an extended family confront its own difficulty listening and communicating. The strongest scenes notice adult assumptions, competing advice and the everyday work beneath declarations of love. This British ensemble is a useful choice for domestic specificity, with…0
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There She Goes (2018)First aired 16 Oct 2018A family raising a girl with a severe learning disability has to negotiate exhaustion, practical care and sharply different coping styles. The comedy can be startlingly blunt because it comes from intimate frustration rather than an improving lesson. Choose it for the distribution of domestic…0
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The Path (2016)First aired 30 Mar 2016A husband begins doubting the spiritual movement around which his family has built its life. Belief changes the meaning of parenting, loyalty and even an apparently private disagreement. Its three-season drama is most interesting when nobody can leave a conversation without risking a whole…0
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The Mosquito Coast (2021)First aired 30 Apr 2021An inventor takes his wife and children on the run, insisting his convictions justify the danger and disruption. The family adventure becomes a question about who has enough information to consent to a parent's decisions. Justin Theroux's charismatic certainty is deliberately troubling; two seasons…0
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The Family Next Door (2025)First aired 10 Aug 2025A newcomer unsettles a seaside cul-de-sac where apparently manageable households are protecting very different secrets. The 2025 Australian adaptation gives its mystery meaning through mothers, partners and neighbours deciding what they owe one another. Its six-part story is the suspenseful option…0
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The Slap (2011)First aired 6 Oct 2011At a barbecue, a man strikes another family's child and exposes loyalties that the group had never needed to articulate. The original 2011 Australian adaptation follows different perspectives rather than assigning one reliable family spokesperson. It is a deliberately uncomfortable, finite ensemble…0
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Kin (2021)First aired 9 Sept 2021A Dublin family's response to a violent death makes loyalty both a source of protection and a way of demanding obedience. The crime setting matters, but the most revealing negotiations concern who can grieve, who must work and whose choices count. This is the forceful, violent end of the selection,…0