Modern Family - Season 4

From time immemorial, sitcoms have been packing up their characters and sending them to Hawaii or France or…

The title of tonight’s episode is so evocative, it’s almost a shame there’s an actual filmed episode to go with it.…

Good things happen when you get all the Modern Family characters in the same place at the same time. That goes…

Being a parent gives you a different perspective on the standard plot rotations of the standard family sitcom. Take…

It’s serialization-o-rama on Modern Family, all of a sudden. Up until last week, the show seemed to have forgotten…

Modern Family tends to do best with episodes that limit the number of separate subplots, either by deliberate…

When I saw that “The Wow Factor” was written by Ben Karlin, I may have gotten my hopes up a bit too high. Karlin, a…

There’s no good reason that “Best Men,” the 86th episode of Modern Family, is the first full half-hour of the series…

(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of…

It really shouldn’t have been surprising to see Modern Family lose Outstanding Comedy Series at this year’s Golden…

Even when it’s at its best, Modern Family is not a show that’s strong on plot. We’ve seen every conceivable…

Modern Family is not the kind of series one would expect to pull off a clever Godfather homage, even when Phil…

Modern Family has been around for four years now, and in that time, its three interlocking family units have pretty…

Certain holidays evoke certain emotions, and for every high that arises there’s an equal and opposite low that…

Sitcoms through the decades have used the family as their setting and their primary situation. Whether the family is…

When we want to get all jargony and academic as critics, we talk about formalism and stuff. Normally, formalism is…

This episode almost plays like a challenge: Break up the ensemble into random pairs, perhaps by drawing out of a…

Last week, there was some discussion in the comments about how much Haley we were likely to get this season, given…

When a sitcom gets all its major characters together in a single, extended, episode-long scene, you can be sure of…

Halloween has been good to Modern Family over the years, but “Open House Of Horrors” doesn’t give us a full-ensemble…