4/08/20 10:15PM
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It’s difficult to unpack Modern Family’s legacy. You certainly can’t trust the ABC-created narrative, where the show…
Reviews - Modern Family
4/01/20 9:15PM
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Generally speaking, dramas use their penultimate episodes to deliver the biggest surprises in terms of plot and…
3/18/20 9:55PM
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It’s been awhile since the previous episode of Modern Family, but all you really need to know is this: the season’s…
2/19/20 9:35PM
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This final season of Modern Family has mostly done a bad job of dealing with the passage of time. For a show about…
2/12/20 9:25PM
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This eleventh and final season of Modern Family has contained a lot of apparent “lasts.” From the Last Thanksgiving…
1/22/20 9:25PM
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“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…
1/15/20 9:20PM
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“Legacy” is a very strange episode of Modern Family, and one that once again deals with a character death in a…
1/08/20 9:15PM
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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…
12/11/19 9:20PM
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If you were to compare the tenth and eleventh seasons of Modern Family, you’d probably incorrectly assume that the…
12/05/19 2:15PM
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I’ll tell you this, right off the bat: I did not expect to see so many episodes with Sherry after she first popped…
11/20/19 9:10PM
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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…
11/06/19 10:10PM
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Modern Family has a bad habit of rarely following through with meaningful changes in the lives of its characters. So…
10/30/19 9:35PM
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I’ll be the first to admit, I’m an absolute sucker for a themed holiday episode. Holiday episodes allow sitcoms to…
10/16/19 9:45PM
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I genuinely can’t remember the last time Lily got an actual, full A-plot on an episode of Modern Family. She was…
10/09/19 9:30PM
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Modern Family has gone through a lot of change over the years. New kids, new grandkids, changing careers, and more…
10/02/19 9:50PM
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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…
9/25/19 9:50PM
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When Modern Family first debuted in 2009, it felt progressive in some ways, and the show was certainly marketed as a…
5/08/19 9:35PM
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Nearly every season finale of Modern Family finds a way to bring everyone together for some sort of communal moment.…
5/01/19 9:40PM
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I’ve spent a fair amount of time criticizing how Modern Family treats its tertiary characters. Namely, whatever the…
4/10/19 9:20PM
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It’s been a few weeks since we really checked in on this season’s major storyline, Haley’s pregnancy and her…