The Fosters (Seasons 1–5)

The Fosters (2013) is an American family drama you can watch online on iFILM, co-created by Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg for Freeform. Police officer Stef Foster and her partner Lena Adams, a school vice principal, are raising three kids together — Stef's biological son Brandon and their adopted twins Mariana and Jesus. The arrangement works, until Lena brings home Callie, a teenager who has bounced through so many failed placements that she has stopped expecting any of them to stick.

Five seasons follow the whole family through court hearings, school crises, first relationships, and the kind of arguments that only happen between people who genuinely love each other. The show put same-sex parenting and the foster care system on prime-time television without turning either into a lecture. Maia Mitchell's Callie is the dramatic engine; Noah Centineo — before the rom-com era claimed him — plays Jesus with surprising depth. The Fosters is the kind of series that makes you reconsider what the word "family" actually requires of people. Stream all seasons of The Fosters online on iFILM.