Apr 8
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B+
It’s difficult to unpack Modern Family’s legacy. You certainly can’t trust the ABC-created narrative, where the show…
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Apr 1
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B
Generally speaking, dramas use their penultimate episodes to deliver the biggest surprises in terms of plot and…
Mar 18
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B
It’s been awhile since the previous episode of Modern Family, but all you really need to know is this: the season’s…
Feb 19
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This final season of Modern Family has mostly done a bad job of dealing with the passage of time. For a show about…
Feb 12
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C+
This eleventh and final season of Modern Family has contained a lot of apparent “lasts.” From the Last Thanksgiving…
Jan 22
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B-
“Dead On a Rival” is a strange episode of Modern Family. It’s not bad, and it’s not good. It’s filled with flat…
Jan 15
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“Legacy” is a very strange episode of Modern Family, and one that once again deals with a character death in a…
Jan 8
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B+
It’s difficult to not get repetitive when you’ve been reviewing a show for as long as I’ve been on the Modern Family…
Dec 11
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B
If you were to compare the tenth and eleventh seasons of Modern Family, you’d probably incorrectly assume that the…
Dec 5
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C+
I’ll tell you this, right off the bat: I did not expect to see so many episodes with Sherry after she first popped…
Nov 20
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Ever since I took over the Modern Family beat for The A.V. Club a handful of seasons ago, I’ve been wont to mention…
Nov 6
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B
Modern Family has a bad habit of rarely following through with meaningful changes in the lives of its characters. So…
Oct 30
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B+
I’ll be the first to admit, I’m an absolute sucker for a themed holiday episode. Holiday episodes allow sitcoms to…
Oct 16
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I genuinely can’t remember the last time Lily got an actual, full A-plot on an episode of Modern Family. She was…
Oct 9
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B
Modern Family has gone through a lot of change over the years. New kids, new grandkids, changing careers, and more…
Oct 2
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After a final season premiere that, for the most part, hit all the notes it needed to, and did so in a way that was…
Sep 25 2019
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B
When Modern Family first debuted in 2009, it felt progressive in some ways, and the show was certainly marketed as a…
May 8 2019
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Nearly every season finale of Modern Family finds a way to bring everyone together for some sort of communal moment.…
May 1 2019
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time criticizing how Modern Family treats its tertiary characters. Namely, whatever the…
Apr 10 2019
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B
It’s been a few weeks since we really checked in on this season’s major storyline, Haley’s pregnancy and her…