Modern Family is a mockumentary style television show, which premiered 23.9.2009. The series is created by Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan. It follows the lives of all related 3 families who live in suburban area in Los Angeles.
This show is really great and just my cup of tea. Camera work and interviews were a bit annoying at the beginning, but eventually I grew to love this show and noticed that the ”to camera” interviews and conversations really suit the story lines of episodes. I caught up on the action after 2 episodes. Series is good family entertainment and it is very clever and full of surprises.
The casting is very good. Each actor are really bringing something unique to the show. Set up is a bit cliche, a gay couple, stereotypical family and a Columbian wife with son and American husband. Jay (Ed O’Neill) is remarried to columbian woman, Gloria (Sofía Vergara), who have 2 children, baby son and 14-year old boy from Gloria’s previous marriage. Jay’s son Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and his gay partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) have just adopted Vietnamese baby girl. The daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) is married to Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) and they have 3 children with very different personalities. Ill-bred teenage girl Haley (Sarah Hyland), nerdy Alex (Ariel Winter), who is bullied by her older sister and the youngest of the family, Luke (Nolan Gould). The show focuses mainly on the parents and how they raise their families and interact with other people.
Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, the writers, pitch their comedy perfectly and every script is just flawlessly written. I noticed that the setting of show, as its name suggests, is very modern. Everything in the series is modern. Suburban area is modern, Lifestyles of people are modern. Families are not like ”normal loving and caring families”, just like nowadays.
If you’re looking for a great, funny, well written and well acted comedy series, look no further than the really enjoyable Modern Family. It’s not just typical three-camera sitcom. You may not laugh at every minute, but overall you will enjoy the show. I would recommend this to every comedy series lover.