5.860 minSeason 1 • Episode 10
LatestRamon goes missing after a disturbing family incident. Audrey clashes with Steve during and after a morning talk show. Ashley and Malcolm weigh the pros and cons of a corporate future. Farid’s guilt drives him to extremes, damaging his family ties. Greg gets enlightenment during a visit with Audrey’s brother Ike. A cataclysmic event shakes the family to its core.
A provocative and darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture, 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.
Acting
Holly Hunter's meltdowns deserve awards
Writing
Ball's dialogue cuts like expensive therapy
Creator
Alan Ball
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered January 2018 and already felt dated by March—captured peak Trump-era liberal anxiety in amber.
US
