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Modern Family: “Goodnight Gracie”
From time immemorial, sitcoms have been packing up their characters and sending them to Hawaii or France or Disneyworld…
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Modern Family: “Games People Play”
The title of tonight’s episode is so evocative, it’s almost a shame there’s an actual filmed episode to go with it.…
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Modern Family: “My Hero”
Good things happen when you get all the Modern Family characters in the same place at the same time. That goes double…
B
Modern Family: “Career Day”
Being a parent gives you a different perspective on the standard plot rotations of the standard family sitcom. Take…
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Modern Family: “Flip Flop”
It’s serialization-o-rama on Modern Family, all of a sudden. Up until last week, the show seemed to have forgotten…
B
Modern Family: “The Future Dunphys”
Modern Family tends to do best with episodes that limit the number of separate subplots, either by deliberate…
B+
Modern Family: “The Wow Factor”
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…
B
Modern Family: “Best Men”
There’s no good reason that “Best Men,” the 86th episode of Modern Family, is the first full half-hour of the series…
B
Modern Family: “Bad Hair Day”
(For the next several days, some of our writers will be swapping duties on some of our most popular shows. Some of…
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Modern Family: “Heart Broken”
It really shouldn’t have been surprising to see Modern Family lose Outstanding Comedy Series at this year’s Golden…
B+
Modern Family: “A Slight At The Opera”
Even when it’s at its best, Modern Family is not a show that’s strong on plot. We’ve seen every conceivable character…
B
Modern Family: “Fulgencio”
Modern Family is not the kind of series one would expect to pull off a clever Godfather homage, even when Phil…
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Modern Family: “Party Crasher”
Modern Family has been around for four years now, and in that time, its three interlocking family units have pretty…
B+
Modern Family: “New Year’s Eve”
Certain holidays evoke certain emotions, and for every high that arises there’s an equal and opposite low that balances…
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Modern Family: “Diamond in the Rough”
Sitcoms through the decades have used the family as their setting and their primary situation. Whether the family is…
B+
Modern Family: “When A Tree Falls”
When we want to get all jargony and academic as critics, we talk about formalism and stuff. Normally, formalism is…
C+
Modern Family: “Mistery Date”
This episode almost plays like a challenge: Break up the ensemble into random pairs, perhaps by drawing out of a hat,…
B-
Modern Family: “Arrested”
Last week, there was some discussion in the comments about how much Haley we were likely to get this season, given that…
B+
Modern Family: “Yard Sale”
When a sitcom gets all its major characters together in a single, extended, episode-long scene, you can be sure of one…
B
Modern Family: “Open House of Horrors”
Halloween has been good to Modern Family over the years, but “Open House Of Horrors” doesn’t give us a full-ensemble…