Modern Family: Season One
The focus of Modern Family are three intertwined families, which I take more as a sign of how different families can be in this day and age more so than (hopefully) the fact that we as a society can no longer have a sitcom based on a single family because it would not hold our attention in this ADHDTV world.
One family is the supposed normal family with a mother, father, two daughters and a son. Another family is a gay couple with an adopted daughter. The last family is the father of someone from the other two families, his new wife (who is the lesser Selma Hayek) and then his stepson. This character- Manny- is probably the most redeeming part of this show. He is this ten year old kid who is probably smarter than everyone else combined and he knows it. He is closer to the age range of the first family I described kids, but he is their uncle and the brother of their mother (who was Happy Gilmore’s love interest in the movie of the same name)
I like this show- I find it amusing- and I feel that with the multi-character cast that they have going, it could go on for a long time. Then again, the same could be said for Arrested Development and we all know how that turned out.
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