Modern Family, ABC, Wednesdays 9pm
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Well, I guess this show has done well both with critics and with ratings. I'm afraid I didn't watch it on a regular basis during the first two seasons, but on the rare occasions that I did watch it, I always liked it. And in the third season, I decided to try to watch it more often. It's fairly amusing, after all. Anyway, it's done in a sort of mockumentary style. There are scenes where various characters will sit and talk to the camera as if being interviewed, though as far as I've seen, we've never actually heard or seen any interviewer, nor is there any clear reason that I know of why this extended family would be the subject of a documentary. But whatever. Those little scenes are fairly supplemental; most of the scenes in each episode... well, it may be a bit more realistic than most shows. I mean, there's no laugh track or background music or anything. It doesn't really look or feel overly polished; though it doesn't really look like an amateurish production. I mean, I don't feel like it's shot with a hand-held camera or whatever. *shrug* I dunno.

Um... so, there's this guy, Jay Pritchett, who I guess is divorced, and he's now married to a much younger, hot Columbian woman named Gloria, who has a young son named Manny from a previous marriage of her own. Jay has a couple of grown children of his own. There's Claire, who's married to Phil Dunphy. The two of them have a couple of daughters, Haley and Alex, and a son named Luke. Jay also has a son named Mitchell, who is gay, and in a relationship with a man named Cameron Tucker. The show revolves around the interaction of all these characters. I don't really know what else to say. It's just a funny, clever show. And of course, Gloria, Claire, Haley, and Alex are all fairly easy on the eyes....