Season finales have to make big moves—weddings, funerals, graduations, births. Or do they? Noel Murray’s For Our…

The centerpiece of “Tableau Vivant” is a special art program at Alex’s school, in which the assignment is to…

There’s something old-fashioned and utterly fitting about this half-hour ABC-funded commercial for Disneyland. After…

Since the most famous thing about Modern Family these days is the number of vehicular accidents that it portrays,…

The more storylines Modern Family attempts and the more isolated they are from each other, the worse the episode…

Election Day sounds like just the thing to bring our Modern Family gang back from their hiatus, and back together…

Clown humor. It’s a tricky thing. I know it’s a grand tradition of folklore and nomadic entertainment and pantomime…

Is Modern Family an overrated show or an underrated one? It probably comes down to whom you're discussing it with,…

In my review of “Aunt Mommy,” last week’s very good episode of Modern Family, I took issue with the show’s usual…

If you’ve watched even a handful of Modern Family episodes, you know that all three branches of the…

I tend to like it when Modern Family pairs up characters who don't usually share a storyline. I'd imagine that…

One of the things that’s always bothered me, ever so slightly, about Modern Family, is the social vacuum in which…

Since I’ll be stepping in for Donna for the next few weeks while her ABC affiliate goes basketball crazy, I thought…

Looking for trends in half-hour TV comedies is probably an exercise in illusion-spotting. A few sub-par episodes…

I’ve been watching a lot of Christmas specials and Christmas episodes lately, in part because I’ve been required to…

Greetings! I’m filling in for Donna tonight.

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When Todd wrote “You had us at ‘Phil builds a treehouse for Luke,’” I could not have agreed more. So it was a sad…

So this is going to be one of those Modern Families that splits everybody up into units both usual (the Pritchetts)…

In today’s premiere installment of our new “What’s On Tonight?” feature, Todd VanDerWerff pokes gentle fun at the…