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Shows About Complicated Families
Blood is thicker than water, and sometimes stickier, nastier, and harder to clean up. These shows serve up loyalty, betrayal, generational trauma, and more than a little scheming—family style.
Last updated Sep 7, 2026

Inheriting an English manor is tricky enough, but try wrangling your criminal relatives and a hidden drug empire while you’re at it.

The Duttons turn sibling rivalry and generational wounds into a high-stakes blood sport across the Montana plains.

A world of wealth, trauma, and betrayal collides when a working woman is sucked into a cosmetics dynasty's rotten core.

The Bridgertons perfect the art of genteel dysfunction, blending scandal, passion, and sibling intrigue under the velvet glove of high society.

Frank Gallagher’s kids may be shameless by necessity, but their chaotic, codependent bond proves you can’t really outrun your family.

America’s favorite radioactive family serves up decades of dysfunction, with Homer and Bart forever locked in an oddly loving war for the ages.

No show dissembles and detonates the myth of family unity more savagely than Succession—the Roys eat their young, and each other.

Sibling bonds and old resentments hit a boil in Carmy’s kitchen, where culinary chaos turns a sandwich shop into a surrogate family battleground.



