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Almost Family

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17 feature instances
11 referencing feature instances

Almost Family	type	TVTItem
Almost Family	label	Almost Family
Almost Family	page	AlmostFamily
Almost Family	comment	Julia Bechley (Brittany Snow) is shocked to learn that her father, fertility specialist Dr. Leon Bechley (Timothy Hutton) has conceived around 100 children using his own sperm by in-vitro fertilization. To cope as her father is indicted and she's fired from the clinic where he worked, Julia bonds with two of the half-sisters whom she's just met as a result: Edie Palmer (Megalyn Echikunwoke), who she's been friends with prior, and former Olympic athlete Roxy Doyle (Emily Osment). Both of them also have their own issues, and together all three cope while even more secrets come to light. Based on the Australian series Sisters, it aired on FOX.The series was canceled after one season.
Almost Family	fetched	2023-05-21T10:44:53Z
Almost Family	parsed	2023-05-21T10:44:53Z
Almost Family	isPartOf	DBTropes
Almost Family / int_13505e56	type	Lesbian Jock
Almost Family / int_13505e56	comment	Lesbian Jock: Edie meets an entire kickball team made up of lesbians, and joins it.
Almost Family / int_13505e56	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_13505e56	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_13505e56
Almost Family / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Almost Family / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Edie and Amanda qualify, dressing and acting in a traditionally feminine way. Both are technically bisexual since they admit attraction to men, but only identify themselves as lesbians.
Almost Family / int_312b02ac	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_312b02ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_312b02ac
Almost Family / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Almost Family / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: Subverted. Though at first neither Edie nor Amanda notes that their affair could get them both sanctioned or even disbarred, as they're working on the opposite sides of a case, it's later explicitly brought up. During the trial, it gets disclosed and used in trying to coerce a plea deal out of Amanda (not by Edie, but her boss).
Almost Family / int_3322dd48	featureApplicability	-0.3
Almost Family / int_3322dd48	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_3322dd48
Almost Family / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
Almost Family / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: Due to Leon's fraud, it turns out that Julia, Amanda, and Edie along with all the many other children he's fathered are this for each other. Much of the plot involves them meeting each other, forging bonds and continually meeting yet another long-lost half-sibling.
Almost Family / int_455f6a91	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_455f6a91	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_455f6a91
Almost Family / int_4e91b042	type	Making Love in All the Wrong Places
Almost Family / int_4e91b042	comment	Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Julia hooked up with a guy in the bathroom (who it turns out is her half-brother, though she didn't know then). Edie and Amanda first have sex in a room of the courthouse after they met while representing opposing sides on a case. This continues before both of them realize that's too dangerous.
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Almost Family / int_4e91b042	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_4e91b042
Almost Family / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
Almost Family / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Roxy is revealed to have been raped by her coach, though it takes her some time until she realizes this (they had been in a relationship but he not only groomed her, at the time she was underage).
Almost Family / int_524f94d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_524f94d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_524f94d3
Almost Family / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
Almost Family / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Despite having a husband and never finding women attractive before, the possibility that Edie is bisexual rather than a lesbian isn't brought up (it appears she's been in deep denial about this). The closest is a discussion of the "lesbian spectrum," where Amanda claims that all women fall on a spectrum of 0 to 100% gay, referring to herself (a lesbian) as 80% attracted to women and 20% attracted to men, and when Edie claims she's "50/50," Amanda wants to "raise that number." So technically they're both bisexual, though neither identifies as such. Amanda's reference echoes the Kinsey scale, on which she'd be a 5 and Edie a 3.
Almost Family / int_5679208c	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_5679208c	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_5679208c
Almost Family / int_5bca5a56	type	Surprise Incest
Almost Family / int_5bca5a56	comment	Surprise Incest: Julia hooks up with a man who's revealed to be her half-brother afterward, as he was conceived with her father's sperm. Later she's portrayed as a pervert who'd knowingly done this after an out-of-context quote gets recorded and put on the Internet.
Almost Family / int_5bca5a56	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_5bca5a56	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_5bca5a56
Almost Family / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Almost Family / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: Edie's realization that she's a lesbian, coming to grips with it, and telling her husband is a continuing story arc in the series.
Almost Family / int_6f19054d	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_6f19054d	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_6f19054d
Almost Family / int_70638525	type	Luke, You Are My Father
Almost Family / int_70638525	comment	Luke, You Are My Father: Julia blurts out Mark is her birth father shortly after they've met, to his surprise, after having figured it out. She apologizes, saying that wasn't how she'd planned it, but he's quite happy to learn he has a daughter.
Almost Family / int_70638525	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_70638525	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_70638525
Almost Family / int_7b7182fe	type	Closet Key
Almost Family / int_7b7182fe	comment	Closet Key: Amanda Doherty serves as this for Edie, who'd never realized her sexuality before.
Almost Family / int_7b7182fe	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_7b7182fe	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_7b7182fe
Almost Family / int_98d3f973	type	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
Almost Family / int_98d3f973	comment	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: Leon Bechley inflicted this on a hundred or more couples, as he used his sperm to perform IVF, not the men's. As a result, dozens of people come out to connect with each other/him or sue (he's also indicted for committing fraud and sexual abuse on a huge scale).
Almost Family / int_98d3f973	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_98d3f973	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_98d3f973
Almost Family / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
Almost Family / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Edie and Amanda, the only women of color in the main cast, who are also lesbians.
Almost Family / int_b6ec7566	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_b6ec7566	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_b6ec7566
Almost Family / int_bd0230fb	type	Ambiguously Bi
Almost Family / int_bd0230fb	comment	Ambiguously Bi: Julia's birth father Mark says he was mostly in straight relationships when he had been with her mom, indicating he might be bisexual or just hadn't fully accepted being gay.
Almost Family / int_bd0230fb	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_bd0230fb	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_bd0230fb
Almost Family / int_cdac8795	type	Gene Hunting
Almost Family / int_cdac8795	comment	Gene Hunting: Dozens of young adults come to look for Leon Beckley after learning he's their real birth father. Conversely, after learning he's not hers Julia looks for her real one.
Almost Family / int_cdac8795	featureApplicability	1.0
Almost Family / int_cdac8795	featureConfidence	1.0
Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_cdac8795
Almost Family / int_ce993654	type	Hollywood Genetics
Almost Family / int_ce993654	comment	Hollywood Genetics: Edie's mother (who's played by Tamara Tunie) is lighter-skinned than she is. Her birth father turns out to be white though, which is genetically quite unlikely.
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Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_ce993654
Almost Family / int_name	type	ItemName
Almost Family / int_name	comment
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Almost Family	hasFeature	Almost Family / int_name
Almost Family / int_name	itemName	Almost Family

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Almost Family	hasFeature	Closet Key / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Gene Hunting / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Lesbian Jock / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Luke, You Are My Father / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Making Love in All the Wrong Places / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Mixed Ancestry / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	No Bisexuals / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_a1a1c5d9
Almost Family	hasFeature	Twofer Token Minority / int_a1a1c5d9

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