JAM Reviews Modern Family: Season Two from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Modern Family: Season 2 Blu-ray: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Review by JAM

What is truly the definition of a “Modern Family”? The answer can take so many connotations throughout the myriad of families that comprise this crazy country. Biracial couples? Check. Second marriages? Check. Gay couple? Check. With an adopted baby? Check. Oh yeah, and there’s a traditional family as well.

All solid sprinkling of society’s various familial units are on display on this comedic free-for-all. Ed O’Niell as the patriarch Jay Pritchett dispenses love and advice (not always the greatest) as he faces the challenges of both a combined family with his second wife Gloria (the AMAZINGLY funny Sofia Vergara) and her son Manny (the subtle yet hilarious Rico Rodriguez) joining his grown children in the growing Pritchett family. The traditional family in the program is the bickering, conniving, loving Dunphy’s, led by Jay’s daughter Clarie (the fun Julie Bowen) and her husband Phil (Ty Burrell). Throw in three lovely and challenging kids (Nolan Gould, Sarah Hyland, and Ariel Winter) and you have the crazy challenges of the traditional family. Claire’s brother Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) his partner Cameron (Eric Stonestreet), and their little Vietnamese Lily form the final family in the crazy bunch in the Modern Family.

Favorite episode: Earthquake. From Claire getting locked into the bathroom with a plumber while Phil races to fix something that should have been done long ago to Mitchell and Cameron finding an excuse to finally cancel longstanding, non-desirable plans, an earthquake changes the day of the whole family in funny ways. Watching Phil run back and forth trying to assuage Claire while attempting to smooth things over for when she gets out is funny.

EXTRAS

Take some extended and deleted family interviews (a fun aspect of this series with it’s pseudo-documentary feel), some more deleted and extended scenes from the shows themselves, a cool intro to the households with “At Home with the Modern Family”, a fun gag reel in which Sofia Vergara is the star (she is a funny woman), and a cool table read of the Strangers on a Treadmill episode which is really cool for anyone with an interest in seeing the true behind the scenes work of Hollywood.

Modern Family: Season 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment hits shelves on Blu-ray and DVD on September 20, 2011. Check out the truth of the American family, Hollywood style and be ready to split your sides laughing out loud.

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