Meet the Rayburns. The gilded clan at the centre of Netflix’s newest series Bloodline are the kind of close-knit family everyone wishes they had.
They gather for warm-hearted reunions at their parents’ beautiful Florida Keys hotel, take part in mock-fierce tug-of-war games on the beach and throw big, noisy parties where the drink and chatter flow equally readily and the music drifts over the sand through the early hours.
Except that’s not quite the whole story: for though Bloodline may look like a family saga, it’s certainly no Parenthood. Amid the bonhomie, there are subtle tensions between father and sons, quiet threats delivered from brother to brother and an air of secrecy that suggests the family’s apparent perfection has come at a cost.
