Modern Family Preview: Season 2 Returns With A Pinch Of Salt

published: 2010-09-17 21:09:19

Among the season premieres set to hit primetime next week is the return of Modern Family. The Emmy Award winning series will return for Season 2 on Wednesday and we has some clips from the episode, along with a synopsis for the season.

I don’t think I fully realized how excited I was for Modern Family’s return until I watched these clips! They’re below ABC’s description for Season 2. If you haven’t watched this show before, I definitely recommend you check it out! Much like a pinch of salt in some chocolate milk, you might find it surprisingly delicious.

ABC's hit comedy, Modern Family, returns for its second season already the recipient of a Peabody Award, Writers Guild Awards, Directors Guilds Awards, Television Critics Award and six Emmy Awards, including for Outstanding Comedy Series. It seems that today's families have embraced this particular modern family, which is anything but cookie cutter and is just as honest and complex as their own. The Pritchett clan has Jay sitting at the head, a true guys' guy experiencing a bit of mid-life crisis, has remarried a much younger wife, Gloria, whose passion and loyalty is matched by her 11-year-old son, Manny, a boy wise beyond his years. Blending together into this new family has quite the learning curve with some culture clashes, a few awkward misunderstandings, and plenty of sweet victories along the way.

Jay's grown daughter, Claire, has her own family. Claire and Phil are the proud parents of three kids with whom they want that open, healthy, honest relationship. It's not always easy, especially when you have a teenage daughter who's growing up a little fast, a too-smart-for-her-own-good middle daughter and a scatterbrained boy. On top of that, Phil wants to be the "cool dad," while Claire is just trying her best to run a tight ship, determined not to let her kids have the rebellious childhood she had.

Claire's brother and Jay's grown son, Mitchell, adopted a Vietnamese baby with his partner of five years, Cameron. Opposites attract in this household, with Cameron having a wonderfully big personality and maybe a flare for the dramatic, whereas Mitchell is the more serious of the two. They balance each other out and are doting fathers trying to do their best as new parents.

All of these three families are unique unto themselves, and together they give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted embrace of the modern family.

Modern Family stars Ed O'Neill as Jay, Julie Bowen as Claire, Ty Burrell as Phil, Sofía Vergara as Gloria, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron, Sarah Hyland as Haley, Nolan Gould as Luke, Ariel Winter as Alex and Rico Rodriguez as Manny.