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Six standout drama series about family...

Bloodline

A black-sheep son threatens to expose family secrets in this series set in the Florida Keys and featuring a deep pool of talented performers, including Kyle Chandler, Sissy Spacek, Linda Cardellini, and Ben Mendelsohn. Netflix

Trust

Fans of Succession will have an easy time migrating to Trust, a series about the Getty dynasty that in its sole season dramatized the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty’s grandson. With Donald Sutherland, Hilary Swank, and Brendan Fraser. Hulu

Six Feet Under

Alan Ball changed what a family drama series could be with his richly drawn and richly honored story of a family that runs a

Los Angeles funeral home and occasionally turns to the dead for wisdom. HBO Max

Ordeal by Innocence

A matriarch is killed at the family estate and her survivors twice must determine who killed her in a threepart BBC series based on an Agatha Christie novel. Bill Nighy, Anna Chancellor, and Matthew Goode co-star. Amazon Prime

Big Love

One man, three wives, and seven children struggle to be a perfect Mormon suburban family in the series that delivered three bingeworthy seasons before losing its way. With Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Harry Dean Stanton. HBO Max

Brothers & Sisters

Though easy to overlook, this Sunday-night network series about an affluent California family often overperformed, thanks to a cast that included Calista Flockhart, Rob Lowe, Rachel Griffiths, Matthew Rhys, and 2007 Emmy winner Sally Field. Hulu