Suzanne Mayes

David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the first time in ten years, he feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother’s health declines, David frantically tries to extract meaning from this horrible experience and convince everyone (including himself) that he's "doing okay.”

Struggling actor, Lucky, spends his gap year embarrassing himself and attempting to be the next big star of Hollywood.

Newly engaged and totally friendless, Amelia decides to ask her high school ex-BFF to be her maid of honor: who she hasn't talked to in 10 years, and whose crush she stole back in the day... She'll probably be so excited to see her too!

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.