Modern Family

It’s difficult to unpack Modern Family’s legacy. You certainly can’t trust the ABC-created narrative, where the show…

Generally speaking, dramas use their penultimate episodes to deliver the biggest surprises in terms of plot and…

It’s been awhile since the previous episode of Modern Family, but all you really need to know is this: the season’s…

This final season of Modern Family has mostly done a bad job of dealing with the passage of time. For a show about…

This eleventh and final season of Modern Family has contained a lot of apparent “lasts.” From the Last Thanksgiving…

“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…

“Legacy” is a very strange episode of Modern Family, and one that once again deals with a character death in a…

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…

If you were to compare the tenth and eleventh seasons of Modern Family, you’d probably incorrectly assume that the…

I’ll tell you this, right off the bat: I did not expect to see so many episodes with Sherry after she first popped…

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…

Modern Family has a bad habit of rarely following through with meaningful changes in the lives of its characters. So…

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m an absolute sucker for a themed holiday episode. Holiday episodes allow sitcoms to…

I genuinely can’t remember the last time Lily got an actual, full A-plot on an episode of Modern Family. She was…

Modern Family has gone through a lot of change over the years. New kids, new grandkids, changing careers, and more…

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…

When Modern Family first debuted in 2009, it felt progressive in some ways, and the show was certainly marketed as a…

Nearly every season finale of Modern Family finds a way to bring everyone together for some sort of communal moment.…

I’ve spent a fair amount of time criticizing how Modern Family treats its tertiary characters. Namely, whatever the…

It’s been a few weeks since we really checked in on this season’s major storyline, Haley’s pregnancy and her…