Here and Now (Season 1)

Here and Now (2018) is an HBO drama series you can watch online on iFILM, created by Alan Ball, who previously built Six Feet Under and True Blood. It centers on the Bishop family: philosophy professor Greg (Tim Robbins), his wife Audrey (Holly Hunter), their biological daughter, and three adopted children from Vietnam, Liberia and Colombia.

The Bishops look like the progressive American ideal — a multicultural household run on open-mindedness and good intentions. Underneath, each member is carrying a private fracture. When one of the sons begins experiencing visions no one else can see, the series folds something stranger and darker into its social portrait. Ball keeps the seam between supernatural dread and liberal satire deliberately unresolved, refusing to tip cleanly into either.

The show ran for a single season and divided audiences sharply — a diagnosis of performative liberalism for some, an overcrowded provocation for others. Directors include Lisa Cholodenko and Ball himself. Stream Here and Now (2018) online on iFILM.