“Almost Family” has a lot of blind spots, but believability shouldn’t be one of them.
Fertility fraud is a serious, real-world problem.
There are plenty of people still reeling after discovering their fertility doctor used his own sperm to inseminate patients, rather than the specified donor, and state legislatures are still working to amend laws related to what can be plainly called medical rape.And yet the new Fox drama is so untethered it feels more like science-fiction than timely commentary.
Most misguided is the show’s insistence that family is defined by DNA, even when said DNA was unwanted, unknown, and unimportant on how, exactly, said family member turned out, but there are so many leaps of faith required within the first two episodes that it’s absolutely impossible to see how “Almost Family” gets anywhere close to watchable TV.Easily the most encouraging aspect is Julia Bechley — specifically,
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