Strong and Moving!

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I just found this show two days ago... and finished it in that time! I am so hooked! I NEED to know what was gonna happen? But more than that, I need to know how it was gonna happen.. Jenna Bans, release the scripts.. or write the scripts and release them.. Do it for the fans!

10 years ago in Red Pines, Maine, Adam Warren was kidnapped while his mother Claire Warren (Joan Allen) was running for city council. 10 years later, Adam reappears claiming to have escaped his captor. Claire is now mayor with secretly-gay daughter Willa (Alison Pill) as her loyal assistant. She's set to run for governor. Her estranged husband John (Rupert Graves) has written a book about the experience. The older son Danny (Zach Gilford) is a mess. Sergeant Nina Meyer (Margot Bingham) made her career by putting sex-offender Hank Asher (Andrew McCarthy) away for Adam's murder. Hank is released from prison. Local reporter Bridey Cruz (Floriana Lima) suspects a devastating secret.I love many of the performances in this show. Allen, Pill, and McCarthy are all standouts. However, the central issue keeps annoying me. It seems like an easy test to figure out if Adam is really Adam. At the beginning, I couldn't figure out why the family wouldn't do more in-depth tests to make sure. Then I couldn't figure out why the police and the court wouldn't double and triple test everything. Finally, I couldn't figure out why the reporter couldn't just steal their trash and test her hypothesis. I also couldn't figure out why a reporter wouldn't print the story right away. There is a lot to figure out about this central premise. It's so annoying that I wish it doesn't exist. The show would be more compelling without it.

The show took a great premise and ruined it by terrible casting and awful writing. First, the show takes place in Maine, which is the whitest state in the nation at 95+ percent and with a sizable population of people of French Canadian ancestry. Yet the main cast is half black and Hispanic and there is not a single person in the show with a French last name. This is completely absurd. Nor does anyone have any kind of Maine accent, not even the older people who get the occasional line, very bizarre for a small Maine town by the coast. There are other bad casting decisions but I won't list them because of spoilers.There is nobody in the show who is likable in any way, so you won't root for anybody. The twists and turns themselves are so stupid, and the behavior from the supposed professionals (cops, journalists) is so gross you won't understand why they are still involved with the case at all. The constant flashbacks and time jumps are very distracting, and not done in any kind of intriguing manner at all (think "Lost").Don't waste your time with this - for a much better series with a believable backdrop that won't make you roll your eyes every two minutes, check out the BBC show "The Missing." That one is already filming a second season while "The Family" seems headed for cancellation for good reason.

This show is excellent. The Warren women are callous. The daughter giving him money and dropping Ben off @ the bus station, what if his kidnapper was looking for him. Mayor Warren once she found out that he is not Adam was so mean to Ben. They don't care that he was held captive for more than half of his life. They haven't thought to help him find his family. I think that he was in foster care because of the house he goes to @ night w/the pictures of different children on the dresser. Who sent Ben the flowers in the hospital? Was it his kidnapper? Now his kidnapper is right across the street. Scary. I can't wait to watch tonight's episode.