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Trying

Together they're a family.

7.6IMDb135 votesWorth your time
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2020 –5 seasons · 40 episodesTV-14Returning series
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TV DNA

How Trying actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.

Signature profile

Trying reads strongest on Humour, Character Depth and Bingeability.

HumourStrong6.5

How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.

Character DepthStrong5.8

How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.

BingeabilityStrong5.5

How hard it is to stop after one episode.

SerializedPresent4.5

How much each hour depends on the one before it.

Cliffhanger IntensityPresent4.0

How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.

TensionPresent4.0

The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.

Emotional WeightLight3.8

How much the series is designed to affect you.

SpectacleLight3.5

Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.

World BuildingLight3.5

The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.

The story

What it's about

All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

The run

Seasons

5 seasons · 40 episodes.

  • Official poster for Season 1

    Season 1 · Complete

    Season 1

    20208 episodes

    7.5IMDb

    Series 1 starts with Nikki and Jason becoming devastated when they're told they'll never conceive a child.

    Best episode · S01E07 Good Old Family Map

  • Official poster for Season 2

    Season 2 · Complete

    Season 2

    20218 episodes

    7.9IMDb

    Having been approved by the adoption panel, Nikki and Jason now find that matching with a child is not as easy as they thought...

    Best episode · S02E04 Helicopters

  • Official poster for Season 3

    Season 3 · Complete

    Season 3

    20228 episodes

    8.3IMDb

    Nikki and Jason wake up as new parents to two children they are still getting to know. Now they just have to keep hold of them, which proves to be trickier than they initially thought. Thrown straight into the parental deep end, Nikki and Jason’s relationships with each other and with their nearest and dearest are tested as they desperately try to navigate the ups and downs of parenting — while hanging onto their kids, and their sanity.

  • Official poster for Season 4

    Season 4 · Complete

    Season 4

    20248 episodes

    We fast-forward six years to discover that Nikki and Jason are experienced adopters who have built a lovely little nuclear family, enriched by an extraordinary support network. However, as their teenage daughter, Princess, starts to yearn for a connection with her birth mother, Nikki and Jason find themselves confronted with the ultimate test of their parenting skills.

  • Official poster for Season 5

    Season 5 · Complete

    Season 5

    20268 episodes

    6.0IMDb

    Nikki and Jason find themselves dealing with the consequences of Princess and Tyler's biological mother Kat turning up at their doorstep, and the whirlwind of chaos she brings into their settled family life.

Where the series peaks

Best Episodes

The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.

Still from Nikki and Jason

S01E01

Nikki and Jason

7.0IMDb5 votes

When they learn that another round of IVF would be too expensive and unlikely to succeed, Nikki and Jason start exploring

1 May 202028 min
Still from The Ex-Girlfriend

S01E02

The Ex-Girlfriend

7.0IMDb5 votes

Jason gets in touch with an ex before social services interviews her. Nikki goes out with her sister, Karen, and her unpleasant boyfriend

1 May 202028 min
Still from Tickets for a Queue

S01E03

Tickets for a Queue

6.8IMDb5 votes

Nikki and Jason go to a picnic with other potential adopters—and get intimidated by the quality of their competition.

1 May 202029 min

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Executive production

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