Monday, September 13, 2010

Modern Family


We have been watching this show on Channel 10 since it started a few months ago. It's great. It's a very funny look at modern family life. The patriarch of the family, Jay, has 2 adult children - Claire (married to Phil) with 3 kids; and Mitchell, who is gay and with his partner Cameron has adopted a baby girl from Vietnam. Jay has remarried the younger Colombian Gloria and now has a 11-year old step-son Manny.

While is sounds a little convoluted, it isn't. The characters are funny, but also very likeable. Every episode also has something positive to say about family - how much they love each other, care for each other, look out for each other, etc.

It doesn't have the same negative aspects of a show like Everybody Loves Raymond, where Raymond in the end was a pretty useless husband and father who couldn't stand up to his parents. This has much more positive relationships, while also being realistic.

Every episode I laugh out loud. Husband also enjoys it and has decided it is one of the few TV shows he would be willing to watch more than once (high praise indeed!)

2 comments:

Jenny said...

We have really enjoyed watching this together - it is very clever and funny. I like it that Claire is a stay-at-home mum - not trying to juggle an amazing job like most mums on TV these days.

Wendy said...

Jenny, I'm so glad you pointed that out. I had never clicked about Claire, probably that's part of what I like about her. It's a shame it's the final this week.