Judging Amy (Seasons 1–6)

Judging Amy (1999) is a CBS legal drama you can watch online on iFILM. Amy Brenneman plays Amy Gray, a newly divorced family court judge who moves back into her childhood home in Hartford, Connecticut with her young daughter. Every episode splits between the cases on her docket and the friction of living under the same roof as her mother again.

Tyne Daly plays the mother, a child welfare social worker whose job brings its own caseload of difficult families. The two women circle each other with the particular mix of love and exasperation that only comes with that specific relationship. Richard T. Jones and Dan Futterman fill out the household. The cases Amy judges — custody disputes, abuse findings, termination of parental rights — mirror and complicate her personal life in ways the show earns rather than forces.

Judging Amy ran six seasons on CBS from September 1999 through May 2005, created by Brenneman based on her own mother's experiences as a judge. It's a procedural that treats the people in the courtroom as carefully as the law they're navigating. Stream all seasons of Judging Amy online on iFILM.