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Shows About Complicated Families

Blood is thicker than water, and sometimes stickier, nastier, and harder to clean up. These shows serve up loyalty, betrayal, generational trauma, and more than a little scheming—family style.

Last updated Sep 7, 2026

House of the DragonHBOHBO MaxSpectrum On Demand

Few clans weaponize genealogy quite like the Targaryens, where family feuds come with dragons and inheritance means war.

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Inheriting an English manor is tricky enough, but try wrangling your criminal relatives and a hidden drug empire while you’re at it.

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YellowstoneParamount NetworkPeacockFubo

The Duttons turn sibling rivalry and generational wounds into a high-stakes blood sport across the Montana plains.

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Young SheldonCBSHBO MaxNetflix

Before Sheldon Cooper was insufferable to his roommates, he was an adorable oddball in a South Texas household at perpetual odds with his genius.

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A world of wealth, trauma, and betrayal collides when a working woman is sucked into a cosmetics dynasty's rotten core.

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BridgertonNetflix

The Bridgertons perfect the art of genteel dysfunction, blending scandal, passion, and sibling intrigue under the velvet glove of high society.

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ShamelessShowtimeNetflix

Frank Gallagher’s kids may be shameless by necessity, but their chaotic, codependent bond proves you can’t really outrun your family.

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Every family has its secrets, but Tommy Shelby’s crew comes dressed for battle in razor-studded caps—power and betrayal are everything.

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The SimpsonsFOXDisney+Hulu

America’s favorite radioactive family serves up decades of dysfunction, with Homer and Bart forever locked in an oddly loving war for the ages.

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VikingsNetflix

Viking loyalties are as fatal as their axes—Ragnar’s dynasty navigates blood ties, epic grudges, and the occasional divine intervention.

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SuccessionHBOHBO Max

No show dissembles and detonates the myth of family unity more savagely than Succession—the Roys eat their young, and each other.

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The BearDisney+HuluYouTube TV

Sibling bonds and old resentments hit a boil in Carmy’s kitchen, where culinary chaos turns a sandwich shop into a surrogate family battleground.

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