From Alan Ball, the creator of Six Feet Under, True Blood and Banshee, and starring Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter, the show is a provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture.
This is as experienced by the members of a progressive multi-ethnic family - a philosophy professor and his wife, their adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia, and their sole biological child - and a contemporary Muslim family, headed by a psychiatrist who is treating one of their children.
Living in Portland Oregan, this multiracial household are the model of a modern family: Greg is a respected philosophy professor, his wife Audrey is a conflict-resolution consultant for middle and high schools.
Together the couple have adopted three children: Ashely, Duc and Ramon, and have one biological daughter, Kristen.
On the surface the clan appear to have it all, but Greg's upcoming 60th birthday party soon reveals deep cracks in their domestic façade.
Adopted from Vietnam, Duc is enjoying the fruits of a lucrative career as a "motivational architect" but his celibacy troubles the family.
Liberian-born Ashley runs a retail-fashion business, and is beginning to struggle with her identity as an African-American woman in modern-day America – she also seems to be finding more and more reason to shake up her marriage with her husband, Malcolm.
At 17, Kristen is the youngest child, irritated by her ordinary life and unextraordinary heritage in comparison to her more exotic siblings.
Finally, Colombian-born son Ramon, has started having inexplicable, mysterious hallucinogenic encounters with the numbers '11:11' and is forced to begin therapy as a result.
| CHANNEL |
M-Net (DStv 101) |
| PREMIERE |
12 February 2018 |
| TIMESLOT |
Mondays, 21h00 |
| REPEATS |
Wednesdays, 00h50 |