Overview: Come join the family for the hilarious and critically acclaimed breakout hit of the year! Featuring an all-star cast led by Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vargara, Julie Bowen, and Ty Burrell, Modern Family takes a refreshing and funny view of what it means to raise a family in this hectic day and age. Multi-cultural relationships, adoption, and same-sex marriage are just a few of the timely issues faced by the show’s three wildly-diverse broods. No matter the size or shape, family always comes first in this hilariously “modern” look at life, love, and laughter.

DVD Verdict: This is by far, one of the best shows on TV. It is done very well for a family comedy. We have Jay (Ed O'Neill) and his stunning, much younger wife Gloria (Sofía Vergara)who has a son named Manny. I was a big Married with Children fan and love Ed O'Neill so I was excited to watch. Sofia is so smoking hot, she could turn woman gay and Manny is like a little old soul.

Claire(Julie Bowen) is Jay's daughter and she is married to Phil(Ty Burrell). They have 3 children and the dynamics of this household cracks me up. Phil really thinks he is intuned with everyone, cool dad, understanding husband but he is adorably clueless.

The next household is Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson), Jay's son who lives with his partner Cameron(Eric Stonestreet) and their adopted Vietnamese baby, Lily. This couple is too funny.

Why This Show Works: The writers are witty. The actors deliver perfectly and there is nothing like this on TV. I love how the actors turn to the camera and give face! I love the couch sessions peppered through the episodes and I love how diverse the show is. Hysterically funny and they touch on all topics.

In all related honesty, before the show premiered, I had set my mind on watching it solely because of the participation of Ed O'Neill, whom I'm a fan of from his iconic, outrageously over-the-top turn as Al Bundy on the 1987-1997 smash hit FOX sitcom Married with Children. I wasn't expecting much, though, because O'Neill hadn't made much of an impression since the monster success of Married with Children.

Sure enough, when Modern Family started, I wasn't keen on O'Neill's new role. Not because he wasn't funny, but because, compared to the live-action cartoonish buffoonery of Al Bundy, O'Neill's quieter, subtle humor on Modern Family was more like Agnes of God.

From the get-go, however, the situations and characters have been hilarious, and O'Neill has grown nicely into his role as the grandfather patriarch of his extended family.

This is the kind of show you will watch in re-run and on DVD. This is the kind of show you will discuss episodes in detail with your friends and family. In my opinion, one of the best shows on TV. This is a Widescreen Presentation (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 TVs and comes with the Special Features of:

Disc 1:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Deleted family interviews

Disc 2:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Deleted family interviews

Disc 3:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Deleted family interviews

Disc 4:
Deleted, extended and alternate scenes
Gag reel
Real Modern Family moments
Before Modern Family
Fizbo the Clown
The Making of Modern Family: 'Family Portrait'
Modern Family 'Hawaii'