No Ordinary Family (Season 1)

No Ordinary Family (2010) is an ABC sci-fi series starring Michael Chiklis and Julie Benz that you can watch online on iFILM. The tagline says it plainly: "New powers. Instructions not included."

The Powells — a detective father, a scientist mother, and two teenagers — survive a plane crash into the Amazon River, then slowly realize that each of them came out of the water different. Dad stops bullets. Mom's brain runs faster than any server in her lab. The kids' abilities arrive on their own schedule, and nobody in the family knows whether to hide what happened or lean into it.

One season, 22 episodes, cancelled in 2011 — but it ran its own course and ended with a real finale, not a cliffhanger. Chiklis is looser here than in The Shield, funnier and warmer, and the show lands closer to family drama than gritty superhero fare. Stream all episodes of No Ordinary Family online on iFILM.