The Fosters

2013

Seasons & Episodes

  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

8| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Stef Foster, a dedicated police officer, and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, have built a close-knit, loving family with Stef's biological son from a previous marriage, Brandon, and their adopted twins, Mariana and Jesus. Their lives are disrupted in unexpected ways when Lena meets Callie, a hardened teen with an abusive past who has spent her life in and out of foster homes. Lena and Stef welcome Callie and her brother, Jude, into their home thinking it's just for a few weeks, until a more permanent placement can be found. But life has something else in store for the Fosters.

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Also starring Hayden Byerly

Reviews

Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
SunnyHello Nice effects though.
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Beanbioca As Good As It Gets
arrich-80894 The two missing stars from me are for some not-so-great acting at times and a few far fetched situations. However, this is an amazing story about two married women that decided to dedicate their lives to their foster children. It takes you through some heart-wrenching moments that make you truly appreciate the meaning of family.
cgamez-41778 I might be late to the party but if you haven't watched "The Fosters" on netflix you should. It is one of the most progressive shows touches on topics like Lgbtq family, foster children, interracial couples, suicide, and rape to mention some of them. Shows like this help create conversation and awareness on many of these issues so hats of to the producers, creators and actors in the show!
AdrienneGrayceMusic I recently started watching on Netflix. The premise of the show was great. Focusing around Foster kids and the flaws with the system. The lesbian parents fostering all different kids and teens. BUT...after the first few episodes, it went downhill. I almost stopped watching but wanted to see how the show all played out. Here are my problems with the show: Its too unrealistic. The acting is HORRID from most of the cast. The adults were pretty much all great actors, but the kids and teens on the show were so embarrassingly awful. Not to mention that most of the actors playing the kids and teens were way older than their characters in real life. Having callie and Brandon fall in love even though they were potential foster siblings was a good story line, but the fact that they dragged it out for almost all seasons was so stupid and pointless. The kids were always doing something stupid in every episode, even though they knew the consequences of their past stupid decisions. The show focuses too much on SEX. Thats fine in adult soap opera shows, but this is a show about kids and young teens. The show has the youngest boy only being 13/14 looking at gay porn and wanting to know about sex, and Callie and Jesus being under-aged also having sex on the show with multi partners, with the parents not even caring..just giving them condoms. The guy who played Brandon was not cute so I don't know why they chose that actor to play him. In every episode, his upper lip was always sweating. The show is unrealistic because not too many adoptive parents would be so willing and happy to let their adoptive children spend so much time with their biological parents and have everyone all together getting along like that. Don't get me started about AJ. Not only was he a bad actor, but his character was so pointless. Can the writers please have callie not fall for all foster siblings already? This show had potential but really fell flat with delivery. I like how the show had portrayed the truth about whats wrong with our justice system, how foster kids are treated horribly and how to accept diversity, especially with the LGBT community. The problem is that the storylines were horrible and the writing was not good at all. So disappointing.
ElessarAndurilS The Fosters isn't a family drama, it is a family fiction that brings to light some very real and serious problems with the foster care system, legal system, and other social issue. I've only watched the show via streaming on Netflix, so patterns in the stories tend to stand out a great deal. While I like the show a lot, only in the minds of Hollywood writers could such a story exist. Overly PC on many topics, it is like many shows of this era. While a family headed by two women partners made up of mostly foster children makes a good back drop for showing many of the problems with the foster care system, there reaches a point where you simply have to say enough! I qualify this with stating I love the show. But after 4 seasons, the repetition in having worst case scenario's play out gets old. I thought after season 3 they just might choose to pick on another character other than Callie to have the apex of worst case scenario's play out; but boy was I wrong. Not that she is the only character that bad things happen to; that is universal. But the worst of the worst events are always saved for the same character, Callie, a foster child that was labeled a trouble maker because of her extreme acts in protecting her brother while in foster care. At some point, and that would have been season 4, the writers should have given us a story where she simply faces normal troubles. But instead they have to have her setup to be tried as an adult on a really weak charge; only to have the season cliff hanger have the story resolve itself, but because of her perceived hopeless situation put herself into harms way again trying to help someone. Please! Just make it stop. I'd bet season 5 will have her get out of harms way in some absurd fashion, only to have them heap more painful story lines on the character. I may love the show, but this repetition is to the point where if it continues I won't keep watching. At some point things have to balance out to a degree, and The Fosters is at the tipping point of no return.