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Modern Family: “Baby On Board”
Season finales have to make big moves—weddings, funerals, graduations, births. Or do they? Noel Murray’s For Our…
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Modern Family: “Tableau Vivant”
The centerpiece of “Tableau Vivant” is a special art program at Alex’s school, in which the assignment is to recreate a…
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Modern Family: “Disneyland”
There’s something old-fashioned and utterly fitting about this half-hour ABC-funded commercial for Disneyland. After…
C
Modern Family: “Planes, Trains And Cars”
Since the most famous thing about Modern Family these days is the number of vehicular accidents that it portrays, let’s…
C+
Modern Family: “The Last Walt”
The more storylines Modern Family attempts and the more isolated they are from each other, the worse the episode…
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Modern Family: “Election Day”
Election Day sounds like just the thing to bring our Modern Family gang back from their hiatus, and back together for a…
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Modern Family: “Send Out The Clowns”
Clown humor. It’s a tricky thing. I know it’s a grand tradition of folklore and nomadic entertainment and pantomime…
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Modern Family: “Leap Day.”
Is Modern Family an overrated show or an underrated one? It probably comes down to whom you're discussing it with,…
B
Modern Family: “Virgin Territory”
In my review of “Aunt Mommy,” last week’s very good episode of Modern Family, I took issue with the show’s usual…
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Modern Family: “Aunt Mommy”
If you’ve watched even a handful of Modern Family episodes, you know that all three branches of the…
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Modern Family: “Me? Jealous?”
I tend to like it when Modern Family pairs up characters who don't usually share a storyline. I'd imagine that writing…
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Modern Family: “Little Bo Bleep”
One of the things that’s always bothered me, ever so slightly, about Modern Family, is the social vacuum in which the…
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Modern Family: “Egg Drop”
Since I’ll be stepping in for Donna for the next few weeks while her ABC affiliate goes basketball crazy, I thought I…
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Modern Family: “Egg Drop”
Looking for trends in half-hour TV comedies is probably an exercise in illusion-spotting. A few sub-par episodes strung…
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Modern Family: “Express Christmas”
I’ve been watching a lot of Christmas specials and Christmas episodes lately, in part because I’ve been required to for…
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Modern Family: “After The Fire”
Tonight’s episode is proof that getting the whole ensemble together isn’t always the best idea. In “After the Fire,”…
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Modern Family: “Treehouse”
When Todd wrote “You had us at ‘Phil builds a treehouse for Luke,’” I could not have agreed more. So it was a sad…
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Modern Family: “Go Bullfrogs!”
So this is going to be one of those Modern Families that splits everybody up into units both usual (the Pritchetts) and…
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Modern Family: “Hit And Run”
In today’s premiere installment of our new “What’s On Tonight?” feature, Todd VanDerWerff pokes gentle fun at the…