Modern Family Analysis

Modern Family takes place in Los Angeles, California. The show is based off of a “typical” modern family in today’s time, or what the writers of the show perceive it as. The show is based off of one big family, but is divided into 3 subfamilies to portray each of their lives. The main characters include Jay who is the patriarch and he is remarried to a much younger Colombian woman Gloria, who has a son from a previous relationship, Manny. Jay’s daughter Claire, a homemaker, is married to Phil, a real estate agent, which they have three children; Haley, the stereotypical teenager, Alex, a nerdy, smart kid, and Luke, the outsider and the only son. Jay’s son Mitchel, a lawyer and his life partner Cameron, have adopted an Asian baby, Lily. The
This show depicts the modern family as an upper class family that is able to afford all of life’s luxuries including a nice home, nice car, good schools, nice clothes, extracurricular activities, college for the kids, etc. Although these are the things that I believe a modern family today shoots for, I’m not sure it always plays out exactly this way. Modern Family ignores the growing gap between the rich and poor in the United States. The median income of the true modern family cannot afford the affluent lifestyles presented in this show. Again, television has long enticed audiences with the proverbial carrot of consumer culture. But for a show that attempts to represent the changing face of the American family unit, Modern family makes no such effort socio-economically. Instead, viewers are universally trained to identify with the lives and struggles of the economically
Each class has social limitations keeping them from successfully climbing the social ladder. On the way up, they knock each other down with false witness statements and tampered evidence for a chance to get closer to the family at the center of it all, the Grayson’s. Emily’s main target is the Grayson family and Grayson Global, their economic empire. The Grayson’s are an extreme representation of the 1%. Victoria Grayson, wife of Conrad Grayson, was once in love with Emily’s deceased father before she falsely accused him of the terrorist attacks. The economic inequality and injustice portrayed in Revenge is sickening, yet viewers cannot get enough. What is it about the top 1% that keeps viewers from peeling away from the screen? Wealth, beauty and status are everything. Superficiality and materialistic greed are cultural staples in pop culture media. In “Revenge,” money is everything. “Revenge” exposes the political influence and societal power that wealthy white families have in