Almost Family debuts at 9p on Fox tonight and it is touching family drama about finding loved ones later in life.
Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow) is an only child who will do anything for her father (Timothy Hutton). She gave up med school to help him run his top-notch fertility clinic. Even though she did that for him, he does not appreciate her. Therefore, when the episode starts out, she meets a guy she just swiped right on at a bar and sleeps with him in the bathroom. That is all she really wanted out of him and he did not mind.
Then she goes to an event honoring her dad. While he is being honored, it is revealed he used his sperm to help father several of the babies that were made at his fertility clinic. How many? Even he does not know.
The news is too much for him, and he has a heart attack. Which is good for him because he has a place to hide from everyone.
While it is good for him, it is bad for Julia. She has to deal with all of the repercussions of what her father did. The only thing she can do is offer free DNA tests to anyone who wants to find out if her father fathered them.
One of the women who thinks she might be Julia’s sister is Edie (Megalyn Echikunwoke). They used to be best friends until Edie started dating Julia’s boyfriend and married him. Now that hate each other. Since Edie and her husband are lawyers, Julia swallows her pride and goes to them for help. Slowly the two women will become friends. Then again it helps that they just learned they are also half-sisters.
They find out they also have a third sister and Roxy Doyle (Emily Osment) is an Olympic Gold medalist. Her parents use her for her stardom and she is so over it. Therefore, when she finds out she might have other family members out there, she runs to meet them.
As soon as Roxy meets Julia, she acts like they are sisters. So much so, she winds up moving in with her big sister.
Julia went from being an only child to having two sisters and the same for Edie and Roxy. The three of them are going to adjust to being family because no one else knows what they are going through but them. That and they all need each other because their lives are not perfect. They each have their own problems and thankfully they are no longer alone to deal with them. They each have a sister to help them get through it.
Besides dealing with that, they still have to deal with their dad. He is still dealing with his heart attack and all the fallout from the reveal. Julia does not know if she wants him in her life, Edie doesn’t and Roxy does.
It is a lot to handle for the three of them, but they have each other. And we have this show. A sweet drama that proves family is family no matter how they came into your life.
