Fostered

Fostered is an American children's/teen comedy-drama/sitcom. It aired on Hulu between January 2, 2016 and ended on March 7, 2020.

Plot
The trials and tribulations of the staff and young people at the fictional Amity Foster Home in San Francisco.

Characters
Staff

Steve McKenna (Joel McHale)-Head careworker at Amity Foster Home. He is down-to-earth., positive and a wise ear for the young people. He enjoys rock music, with his favourite artists being Bruce Springsteen and The Pogues.

Kiran Hameed (Parminder Nagra)-Assistant careworker. A kind, spunky woman of Pakistani-American descent, she isn't afraid to speak her mind and is skilled at martial arts. In season 2, she becomes pregnant and later gives birth to a little girl called Laila.

Sean Manson (Keegan-Michael Key)-Head chef at Amity Park. He is skilled in different cuisines, particularly Italian and Indian. He departs towards the end of Season 2 to work at a restaurant in Sydney, after his wife has twins.

Foster home residents

Meg Wilson (Emily Alyn Lind)-A spunky, kindhearted girl, with a love of animals. She was taken into foster care after initialy being cared for by her grandmother, after her father passed away and her mother-who was a teenager when she became pregnant with her-struggled to care for her. At the start of season 3, she leaves Amity and she and her mother move to Australia, where she gets an apprenticeship at Taronga Zoo.

Matthew Rodriguez (Xolo Mariduena)-With an outspoken attitude and tough but caring personality, he is a fan of soccer, particularly L.A. Galaxy. He is of Mexican-American descent, and he went into foster care with his twin sister. At the start of season 2, he leaves Amity to play for the Mexican under-20 national soccer team.

Olivia Rodriguez (Soni Bringas)-Matthew's twin sister. She is shy, soft spoken and kind, and has a love of animals. Midway through season 2, she leaves Amity to live with her cousin, who works at a wildlife sanctuary in Mexico.

Khaled Hameed (Tenzing Norgay-Trainor)-A troubled boy with a kind personality. Born in Aleppo, Syria, he was separated from his mother during the civil war, and was taken into Amity. At the beginning of season 3, he reunites with his mother-who he long presumed had perished in the civil war-and discovers she is married to-and has a baby with-a man called Razzak, a Moroccan national who is physically and verbally abusive towards her, and encourages her to leave him. Afterwards, Khaled and his mother leave San Francisco and settle in Germany.

Sam Middleton (Casey Simpson)-A goodhearted boy with a positive personality and caring nature. He loves indie music, especially the British band Kaiser Chiefs. He has Asperger's, and it is revealed he was put into the foster care system by his father, who struggled to cope with raising a disabled child.

Regan Williams (Shailyn Pierre-Dixon)-An African-American girl with a feisty but caring personality and a love of adventure travel and sports, with her particular favourite being karate, which she does to destress. Her sometimes cynical attitude and angry outbursts are a result of suffering physical and emotional abuse from her father and stepmother, and was taken away from him after a fire at their home. She leaves at the start of season 4 to do charity work in Ecuador.

Introduced in Season 1

Dylan Cameron (Sayeed Shahidi)-A troubled young boy with a tough but kind attitude. He has ADHD and was taken into care after suffering physical abuse from his alcoholic parents. He is mixed-race; his mother is black and his father is white.

Jackson Cameron (Marcus Scribner)-Dylan's older brother. He primarily cared for Dylan due to their father's alcoholism. At the end of Season 1, he and his brother move in with a family from Sacramento.

Kayla Viejo (Louriza Tronco)-A student foster care worker, who has just graduated from college. She starts off as a trainee care worker before later becoming a full-time member of the team. She is Filipino-American and has a positive, caring personality, and was raised by her single mother.

Jake Bertinelli (Joshua Rush)-A shy, soft-spoken boy with an affinity for comics and superheroes. He is of Italian and Polish-American descent, and goes everywhere dressed as superheroes, which he reveals he started doing to cope with his difficult homelife. He leaves midway through season 3 to study comic book arts in Tokyo.

Joaquin "Joe" Rodriguez (Carlos Ponce)-Matthew and Olivia's father. He is from Aguascalientes, Mexico, and his children were taken into foster care due to his alcoholism and violence towards their mother. He meets Matthew during a game of soccer in the park, and tries to make amends with him and Olivia, but Matthew is reluctant to trust Joe due to the way he treated him and his sister. Eventually, the twins start to connect with him when it is revealed they have a half-brother called Freddy through him, and it is later revealed that his behaviour towards his children was due to the violence he suffered as a child from his father, something that Matthew learns at his father's funeral.

Samia Hameed (Shabana Azmi)-Kiran's mother. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, she shares many of her daughter's personality traits, and is not afraid to tell it like it is.

Kate Manson (Erica Durance)-Sean's wife. She becomes pregnant at the end of Season 1, and later gives birth in the middle of Season 2.

Michael Viejo (Manny Jacinto)-Kayla's older cousin, who she lived with as a child while her mother tried to make ends meet. After joining a gang, he later goes on the run, faking his death, until it is revealed he did it to escape his former associates. He reappears in season 2, where he reveals that she and his girlfriend are having a child.

Introduced in Season 2 

Manny Rivera (Malachi Barton)-A boy with a troubled past and a kind personality. He is Colombian-American and enjoys sports. He initially lived with his grandmother-who raised him after his mother abandoned him, and his father married another woman-before being taken into Amity.

Robert Williams (Donald Faison)-Regan's father. He was physically and emotionally abusive towards her, resulting in her being taken away from him; the reason for this abuse is a combination his wife leaving him, stressful working hours and alcoholism. In his first appearance, he tries to reconnect with Regan, but she is hesitant due to suffering at his hands, but continues to visit him when he reveals she has a younger half-brother.

Cheyenne Rivers (Meagan Good)-Robert's girlfriend, and Regan's stepmother.