At the outset of the series, Jay Pritchett (Ed O'Neill)?with his sour aura, his bombshell trophy wife, his grudging tolerance for contemporary life?looked like little more than an entertaining stock figure: a juicy burgher steeling himself for grouchy senior-citizenry. He has since developed into a proper paterfamilias. I'm calculating this observation according to the peculiar laws of gravitas of this goofball universe. Sofia Vergara, playing Jay's second wife, serves up an ironic hot tamale, frequently delivering her performance between inverted commas and thus leading most of her lines with an inverted exclamation point. But in his dealings with her and her son Manny (Rico Rodriguez, exhibiting the theatrical precocity of a pee-wee stand-up comic), Jay represents a harrumphing voice of reason, sometimes stingy with affection but always generous with love.
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