It's the adventures of an extended family. Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill) is the patriarch with younger new wife Gloria Delgado (Sofía Vergara) and stepson Manny (Rico Rodriguez). His gay son Mitchell Pritchett (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Mitchell's partner Cameron Tucker (Eric Stonestreet) are adopting a baby girl. Jay's daughter Claire (Julie Bowen) is married to Phil Dunphy (Ty Burrell) with three children; Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter), and Luke (Nolan Gould).

Ed O'Neill is TV royalty. Having Sofia Vergara as his wife is simple comedic genius. She is a Latina more cartoonish Peggy. Bowen and Burrell are the perfect comedic married couple. The kids are great. At the beginning, Ferguson and Stonestreet brings the show to a next level of relevance. The genius there is that the guys are lovable and regular folk. They normalize a gay married couple and them adopting a baby. These are likeable people in a likeable family. Their simple loveliness is their best aspect. It lasted eleven seasons with a diminishing return over the years. It's good.