About the Show – Brothers & Sisters

SUNDAYS 10|9c Latest Full Episode: The Pasadena Primary

A network series potentially good enough to be on HBO.

David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun

TV desperately needs a straightforward drama that explores family dynamics without some imposed gimmick, and Brothers & Sisters could just be the show to fill that bill.

Robert Bianco, USA Today

With fun, familiar faces like Field, Flockhart and Griffiths on board, attending a family reunion with the Walkers every Sunday could be a lively, entertaining way to end the weekend.

Mike Duffy, Detroit Free Press

Latest Full Episodes

: Episode 414; The Pasadena Primary (42:06)

: Episode 413; Run Baby Run (43:17)

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Brothers & Sisters is like that awkward family reunion, where everyone is airing their dirty secrets at the dinner table. The thing is, with the Walkers, they're dropping these bombshells at every meal. The Walkers appear to be the perfect all-American family, but it's up to matriarch Nora Walker (Sally Field) to hold everyone together as they cross paths with divorce, infidelity, addiction, war, politics, prejudice and death.

There's Kitty Walker (Calista Flockhart) who's switched career paths, cheated on her previous fiancé and has adopted a child with her new hubby, hunky politician Robert McCallister (Rob Lowe). There's Kevin Walker(Matthew Rhys), who's openly gay and Uncle Saul (Ron Rifkin), who's dealing with coming out of the closet late in life. And even the mistress of Nora's late husband, Holly Harper (Patricia Wettig), has become part of the family since she has a stake in the family business, Ojai Foods and her daughter Rebecca (Emily Van Camp) is engaed to the youngest Walker Justin (Dave Annable). Who knows what other family members might creep up--there seems to be an endless supply of affairs and illegitimate offspring being paraded out in the wine-soaked, soapy world of the Walkers.

But don't dismiss Brothers & Sisters as a family-crisis-of-the-week program. For all of the dysfunctional drama, the Walkers know that the family that drinks together, stays together. As the empty wine bottles pile up, the lips loosen and the secrets pour out just as fast as the vino. While we’d give anything to attend one of their raucous dinner parties, we all know we’d be better off posting our deep dark secrets on Facebook than sharing them with Nora and company.

*Be sure to read the recaps where Brothers & Sisters resident wine expert Joshua Klapper pairs each episode up with a matching wine.