I don't know, but this is a good question. I really liked the show Parenthood, and it had a fairly accurate depiction of the difficulties of adoption but not step-life.

Recently, on The Mindy Project, there has been a lot of 'my son is my life' and if you can't get on board with that then we can't date anymore nonsense going on. This, presented like it's a good thing, or normal, to expect whoever you're dating to make their world revolve around your kid, too. I find that very obnoxious and have sort of quit watching the show...not only because of that, but it was part of the reason. I guess, at least she's being honest with her dates up front. More than we can say for a lot of the SO's here.

There was a season of Desperate Housewives where Tom finds out he has a daughter from a past relationship. The girl is I think 8 or so and she causes her "stepmom" and the kids all kinds of trouble to try to reign control over their household. I find it pretty accurate according to the stories I read on here about girl skids.

That is funny, LadyFace. There is one on right now on LMN (1 to 3 pm) called, "My Stepdaughter." Here is the blurb regarding it. "In this tense thriller, a new stepmother's efforts to befriend her teenage step-daughter are thwarted when her own child is kidnapped by the vengeful teen." Get the popcorn out! Maybe the rest of society is starting to catch up to our reality? Not that I think all SKs are evil, just as not all SMs are evil. But, it is good to see a movie where it isn't all about evil SM or SDad and holier than thou stepkids.

I think the most accurate is inside your own home.

TV is tv

Boy I wish I could produce a Life Time Movie

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits has moments that are real but it's still Hollywoods version of steps.

Loveship/Hateship started pretty darn good with a 'realistic' relationship between the woman and the man's daughter. Her sneer was AWESOME when the woman met her for the first time.
And then it all gets mean, pretty teenager-real stuff.

But then the movie is near the end and they are 'wrapping up the story quick' and the woman has a little discussion with the daughter and then suddenly the daughter does an about-face, moves in with the woman/man for the summer, helps them do all sorts of construction work, and loves everyone. One big happy family you know?

I was rolling my eyes at that point (well, it was all wrapped up rather nicely so that also got some eye-rolls).

"The Drunken Master" with Jackie Chan. Hilarious movie, SM and son have a great relationship but more like friends than an actual mother/son dynamic.

I find that Stepmom (Movie) is actually pretty reasonable though the group hug ending is probably a little unlikely for most second marriages/blended families. What can be very toxic in many families is not quite esclated to the level of toxicity in the movie. This is the one with Julia Roberts as the SM and Susan Sarandon as the BM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepmom_(film)

Welcome Home is also not too bad and has some interesting stuff on the BioDad/StepDad/SS dynamic. Not the focus of the movie but a notable part of the interpersonal elements of the film. The movie is about a man who has been absent for 17 years and returns home to reestablish relationships with his father, XW, and son. The character is a long term Vietnam POW who had been declared dead and whose wife had remarried. SDad raised the kids as his own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Home_(1989_film)

The movie FEAR....stepmom having to deal with Step-daughter issues. In the beginning of movie stepmom is fighting with dad about SD doing chores.

Later step mom lets guard down trying to be "cool" with SD daughter. It back fires as SD gives boyfriend alarm code to house, then breaks up with him, then he comes to house to kill everyone, because dad goes to the bfs house and trashes it!

So sd and dad, make stepmom apart of their impulsive decisions!

She is going to be killed over their choices?! Ugh. Scary thriller for stepmoms!!

The one I was going to mention was Love & Other Impossible Pursuits - someone already said it. Nobody died, (except the step mom's baby that is) it was quite a realistic story, displaying some of the difficult of sustaining a relationship in the face of an antagonistic BM etc, relationship breaking down because of this.

ID Discovery is running its 2nd season of Evil Stepmothers, so I don't think we are quite there yet. However, they also had a series called Momsters. Not sure if there are going to be further seasons of that one yet. What it really is, in both cases, are programs about psycho women who just happen to be stepmothers or moms. I wonder if anyone at ID has thought of the series Grandmsters yet? Psycho grannies torturing their grandkids.

Odd, tho., that they don't have a series YET called Evil Stepdads or Killer Dads, but maybe that is because that isn't unique enough?