Personally I believe the Real O'Neals is one of the quality comedy that have been overlooked during the past year.Not mentioning the diversity exposed in show, watching this comedy series is pure fun. Honesty the whole family, including VP Murray, are a bunch of weirdos having their own issues, but they are all kind, all willing to listen to each other with a open mind to observe things that are new to them. My favorite character is the big brother, Jimmy. He's a little dumb, but really cute!Season 1 is a very good start, but season 2 is getting better and better. Just finished episode 11, and I laughed like a fool!

The first two episodes of this crappola were on ABC last night, and let me tell you, it does not get much worse than this dreck. I suppose it is intended as a comedy, but there is nothing funny about it unless you consider making fun of other people your cup of tea. This steaming pile of crap is from the gayfer Dan Savage, and he spends most of his time making fun of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has been around for a couple of millennia and Savage will soon be dead, probably of AIDS, so you pick a side. The plot, if you can call it that, is that this Catholic family (the O'Neils) while seemingly a perfect family, is, in reality, all screwed up. That's about it. Nothing really to see here. I will promise you this worthless show will not even last 6 episodes. Why in the name of sanity would any executive at ABC ever green light this nonsense? Do not, at any cost, turn on this mess.

We just saw the first and fourth episodes of this at a screening and since the audience loved it and were laughing like crazy I have to say that I am suspicious of a few of the eleven revues I see here. It seems that the Catholic League and the Hundred.....er... 'Million Moms' have a problem with it so I can't help but wondering if they are using IMDb to try to scuttle it.It's a very funny comedy which deals with timely and serious issues. If you think that a young gay character should not be depicted on broadcast TV or that the Catholic Church is a sacred institution about which nothing humorous can ever be said or even implied than I suggest you steer away from this show. However, I have to say that I thought the pilot one of the best I have ever seen. If I had any problem with the show it was that the Catholic School that he was attending wasn't dealing with him the way that the Catholic League is dealing with this show, in other words going on the attack with reckless abandon.All five members of this family were a bit over the top but I liked them all. The relationship between the mother and the son was especially unusual in my experience with sitcoms so I'm not sure where the notion that this series is 'nothing new' is coming from?Looking at the five 1*star reviews that are present , as I am writing this, two were from members who have never reviewed anything before, one from a reviewer whose only recent reviews were "Trash" and "Terrible" and one from someone who loved "Paul Blart: Mall Cop II" saying "This is the kind of film we need more of in America. No profanity, no homos"..... So if that's where you're coming from stay away from The Real O'Neals. Otherwise, I suggest you give it a try.

-spoilers from the first two chapters- I love this series! As a gay man my coming out of the closet to my family so many years ago (In a country not as progressive as the US) was very much like Kenny's was. His mother telling him to "try with a woman" or that "it is just a phase" is typical father homophobic response. Adding on top of that that the O'Neals are an actual conservative catholic family puts on top of that a pressure over Kenny with all the church morale. I love that the core of this show is about a gay boy born in a homophobic family being raised with religious century old rules, and trying to find himself in the world. The fact that it is loosely based on a real gay person's life is what makes it so real and allows for gay people to identity with the main character, and even more so, putting a comedic spin on all these situations is so good! I wish I had seen this show when those stuff were actually happening to me. It is not easy to cope with all the family and community pressure to go back to "being normal". Other shows have tried to make this but when they go the Drama way, like Desperate Housewives or Glee did, it is very good for people outside of that situation but for the actual gay kid it is more depressing for people on those situations. This show instead treats those things with humor and shows that deep down, Kenny's family still loves him, and at the end of the day they are beginning to accept him. It is an unexpected and welcome message that this first homophobic reaction from his parents is not the end of the world and that the rebuilding of the relationships with his family are not as hard as they seem to. All young men coming out as gay should watch at least the first three chapters of the show. It will teach these boys coming out that whatever they are going through, it will get better, which is the message of the It Get's Better campaign, whose founder is the person this show is based on.By the way some reviews just jump to one star and homophobic remarks pretty much shows that this show is doing something right. Those religious conservative homophobic people are as ridiculous as Kenny's mother is and I applaud that a show is willing to show on regular TV that their speech of hate is something we must change with love and (as this show does) with laughs. Thar hatred for gay community is what drives so many gay young men to suicide. We need to change that.Other reviewer said it could go without the imaginary bits but I'm saying otherwise, for me they are the best part of the show, specially that on on chapter 3, because those imaginary bits really compare how we think things are going to be in contrast to how things really are, and comparing with other shows and musicals where things seem more easy. In real life, those flashy things don't happen as much as we love to, but instead we have the little moments.