Claire has overdone it in Halloweens past and the neighbors definitely don't share her enthusiasm, so this year she's being forced to tone it down and keep it "kid-friendly," and Phil has an idea to hold an open house on Halloween night.Download Video Modern Family Open House of Horrors Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Modern Family Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Meanwhile, Mitch and Cam host a costume party while contending with Lily wondering who her real mom is, and Gloria's pregnancy hormones are on overdrive, making her even more hotheaded than usual.A Dutch filmmaker records the lives of three families, including one he stayed with as an exchange student. In one household, the dad works and the mom stays at home with their kids; in another, a gay couple experiences first-time fatherhood with the Vietnamese child they just adopted; and in the third home a 60-year old man becomes an instant father when he marries a thirtysomething Latina mother. Shot documentary-style. Modern Family won six Emmy Awards, including the one for Outstanding Comedy Series. It also brought home a Peabody Award, Writers Guild Award, Directors Guilds Award and Television Critics Award.
Let’s start tonight with a little insight into your reviewer (pardon me the indulgence): I love Power Rankings. I love watching people make completely subjective judgments based on arbitrary sets of data. Frankly, it’s one of the more American things you can do.
Power Rankings can serve several masters. Some are used to incite conversation. Others are used to provide useful information while highlighting the writer’s bias towards that information. And, of course, a good Power Rankings can be used when the writer is too lazy to write good prose interested in projecting an organized flow to the article.
With that in mind, I decided it would be fun if we looked at this double-dose of Modern Family through the Power Rankings prism. Why did I decide that? See the above paragraph. Learn to love Power Rankings, people. To the rankings!
Most of the time, I don’t enjoy when Phil Dunphy is overly dopey. The man is goofy, but he’s not a dumb person. Those scenes never quite fit with me. That being said, the introduction of Phil’s Osophies, a book of wisdom that we should all follow, is one of the rare instances where Phil being a dummy became the gift that kept on giving.
Valuable information abounds in Phil’s book that he gave to Hayley before sending her off to college. Perhaps she can read some more of them during her Skype conversations with Alex.
On that note, Hayley’s continued presence in the series has to be a Sign of the Times moment. If this show took place in 1992, the show would have to create a whole new world for her at college, or have crazy contrivances in place to keep her involved with the rest of the cast.
Now, the show can claim that a college freshman would get up at 7:00 AM to have a Skype call with her mom and sister. It’s a technological marvel with a plot contrivance sprinkled in for some extra flavor. Here’s to progress!
I decided to check out "Modern Family" after hearing all of the critical praise about it. The show was five episodes in, so I caught up on the action online. And I must say that the acclaim is well-deserved. The show is nothing like what I'd imagined when I read about it. It is not a typical three-camera sitcom and it actually IS as gut-wrenchingly funny as people say.
With any modern TV comedy, people are going to compare it with "Arrested Development", which is highly regarded as one of the greatest shows ever by many. "Modern Family" is not quite "A.D.", but I can see why some people may compare the two.
"Modern Family", like "Arrested Development", is a comedy about a wacky extended family that is filmed in a quasi-documentary style, similar to "The Office". The characters don't acknowledge the camera, but they do contribute "talking head" segments to supplement the action. The show is less cartoony and surreal than "Arrested Development" or "30 Rock", but the comedy can still get pretty off-the-wall.
The ensemble cast is great. There are three branches of a single family. The patriarch (Ed O'Neill) has re-married, bringing a Colombian-born wife and her son into the fold. The daughter (Julie Bowen) and her husband (Ty Burrell) have three kids.
The son (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and his partner (Eric Stonestreet) have just adopted a Vietnamese baby. The show focuses mainly on the parents and how they raise their families and interact with each other in today's society.
Let’s start tonight with a little insight into your reviewer (pardon me the indulgence): I love Power Rankings. I love watching people make completely subjective judgments based on arbitrary sets of data. Frankly, it’s one of the more American things you can do.
Power Rankings can serve several masters. Some are used to incite conversation. Others are used to provide useful information while highlighting the writer’s bias towards that information. And, of course, a good Power Rankings can be used when the writer is too lazy to write good prose interested in projecting an organized flow to the article.
With that in mind, I decided it would be fun if we looked at this double-dose of Modern Family through the Power Rankings prism. Why did I decide that? See the above paragraph. Learn to love Power Rankings, people. To the rankings!
Most of the time, I don’t enjoy when Phil Dunphy is overly dopey. The man is goofy, but he’s not a dumb person. Those scenes never quite fit with me. That being said, the introduction of Phil’s Osophies, a book of wisdom that we should all follow, is one of the rare instances where Phil being a dummy became the gift that kept on giving.
Valuable information abounds in Phil’s book that he gave to Hayley before sending her off to college. Perhaps she can read some more of them during her Skype conversations with Alex.
On that note, Hayley’s continued presence in the series has to be a Sign of the Times moment. If this show took place in 1992, the show would have to create a whole new world for her at college, or have crazy contrivances in place to keep her involved with the rest of the cast.
Now, the show can claim that a college freshman would get up at 7:00 AM to have a Skype call with her mom and sister. It’s a technological marvel with a plot contrivance sprinkled in for some extra flavor. Here’s to progress!
I decided to check out "Modern Family" after hearing all of the critical praise about it. The show was five episodes in, so I caught up on the action online. And I must say that the acclaim is well-deserved. The show is nothing like what I'd imagined when I read about it. It is not a typical three-camera sitcom and it actually IS as gut-wrenchingly funny as people say.
With any modern TV comedy, people are going to compare it with "Arrested Development", which is highly regarded as one of the greatest shows ever by many. "Modern Family" is not quite "A.D.", but I can see why some people may compare the two.
"Modern Family", like "Arrested Development", is a comedy about a wacky extended family that is filmed in a quasi-documentary style, similar to "The Office". The characters don't acknowledge the camera, but they do contribute "talking head" segments to supplement the action. The show is less cartoony and surreal than "Arrested Development" or "30 Rock", but the comedy can still get pretty off-the-wall.
The ensemble cast is great. There are three branches of a single family. The patriarch (Ed O'Neill) has re-married, bringing a Colombian-born wife and her son into the fold. The daughter (Julie Bowen) and her husband (Ty Burrell) have three kids.
The son (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and his partner (Eric Stonestreet) have just adopted a Vietnamese baby. The show focuses mainly on the parents and how they raise their families and interact with each other in today's society.