My Family-Season 1

"...a great comedy...  Eamonn McCusker, DVD Times

Editor's Note Is the Harper family living in West London or a lunatic asylum? This BBC comedy series follows loopy dentist Ben (Robert Lindsay) and his gastronomy-challenged wife, Susan (Zoë Wanamaker), as they raise three very different children--devoted loafer Nick (Kris Marshall), drama queen Janey (Daniela Denby-Ashe), and resident oddball Michael (Gabriel Thomson)--with loving distaste and mordant wit. This collection presents the complete first season of the British sitcom, created by American writer and producer Fred Barron (SEINFELD).

	Gabriel Thomson
	Kris Marshall
	Robert Lindsay
	Zoe Wanamaker
	Dewi Humphreys, et. al. - Director
	Graham Jarvis - Original Music By
	Jim Armogida, et. al. - Writer
	John Bartlett - Producer
	Phil Moss, et. al. - Editor

CultureVulture.net 7 of 10
Even at its funniest moments, My Family falls far short of the gold standard it visibly strains to emulate. On the laugh-o-meter, these first episodes might find themselves alongside a below-par episode of Home Improvement. In fact, that is the show My Family most resembles - safe, mediocre, and square as robot crap. Even Tim Allen and crew, though, find ways to be subversive in ways that My Family has yet to discover. This does not mean that it won't hit its stride later in the season (watch an early episode of Seinfeld or The Simpsons sometime for a quick reminder that great comedy needs time), but for now it is stuck right in the middle of the road, with all the flatness and deadness that come with the territory. - Ben Stephens