Valentine’s Day returns to Modern Family as two of our three main couples struggle with intimacy in a generally solid episode.
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
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by Joe Lipsett
Valentine’s Day returns to Modern Family as two of our three main couples struggle with intimacy in a generally solid episode.
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
by Joe Lipsett
A stage production of ‘Phantom Of The Opera’ prompts obsessive behaviour in Manny (Rico Rodriguez) as Modern Family continues its fourth season.
Let’s bitch it out… [Read more…]
by Joe Lipsett
Modern Family delivers its funniest episode of the season. So how does the episode break down according to pros and cons?
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by Joe Lipsett
Modern Family returns to celebrate ‘New Year’s Eve’ a few weeks late (great scheduling job, ABC!)
Let’s bitch it out…
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You know how scientists suspect that certain athletes’ brains process events so quickly that it is almost as if these athletes are perceiving what is happening around them in slow motion? (Wayne Gretzky comes to mind). It supposedly allows them to better anticipate what’s coming and map out how they’ll react faster than regular humans. Well, audience, you and I are these super athletes when it comes to Modern Family – we’re watching jokes coming from waaaay down the ice, anticipating the punchline and the smirk, cringe or eye roll they will generate. Oof.
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If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? If Alex’s (Ariel Winter) cellphone slips through her fingers and down a sewer grate during her revenge-fueled paparazzi stakeout while she tries to get a bad picture of her sister, Haley (Sarah Hyland), does anybody care? Nope. Why? Because it was a throwaway storyline. Read on! [Read more…]