1st review: Modern Family: Season One Review. What made
this freshman series such a hit? By Robert Canning (IGN.com)
è This author reviewed Modern Family just a year after its
premier in 2009. This author focuses mostly on the cast and developed
characters within the show that makes it so lovable and brilliant. “Modern
Family found their laughs in lovable characters, a devoted family, and oceans
of heart.” He quickly touches upon some of the cast/characters and some of
their development and depth as characters in the show; along with what makes
them funny and enjoyable to watch. The author appreciated that this was an
extended family that, despite all the dysfunction, at the end of the day, cared
for each other deeply. He found the happy endings at the end of the episodes
warm and inviting. Again, this critic truly felt that the talented cast of
actors and the characters involved in the show gave the show life and made all
the laughs so familiar and relatable to those watching.
2nd review: ‘Modern Family’. The ABC show does indeed
successfully modernize the classic family sitcom. Ed O’Neill stars. By Mary
McNamara. (The LA Times)
è This critic reviews the series Modern Family the same year that it
first premiered (2009). She felt that this new comedy was “sharp, timely and
fresh, complicated enough to be interesting but with a soft, sweet center…” She
then touches upon the pilot and the series beginning, along with a little bit
of who’s who in the show. This author focuses on how the show reflected family
life that various audiences can recognize and relate to; “It's hard not to see
yourself, or your mother, or your kids, or your sibling, reflected clearly in
one scene at least, and to laugh out loud anyway.” Like the critic, Robert
Canning, she too thought the performance from the cast was fantastic and that Modern Family is a truly funny family
sitcom. Author McNamara believes that this TV series brought the “family
comedy” back to life and is truly the first family comedy since comedies such
as Married…with children to be as
clever and funny and thus successfully being the family comedy modernized.
3rd review: Modern Family is neat example of relationships. By Jerome Wetzel. (BlogCritics.org)
è A longer review of Modern Family, this author’s main focus
is the different, complex, interesting, and loving couple relationships on the
show. Like Robert Canning, Jerome Wetzel is reviewing a year after the premier
of the show. He believes that as the show plays out, more and deeper
connections are made between characters that reveal different and deeper things
about themselves. This author appreciates that since families are complex and
couldn’t possibly be summed up in a mere 22 minute episode, Modern Family does an excellent job of
capturing real life and character development each week. He discusses a couple
of episodes and talks about each couple and their complex and dynamic
relationship with each other, as well as what makes each couple fun to watch
and relatable. The mere fact that all the complexities and subplots of
relatable family life and relationships can be condensed and occur within one
episode is why the show really deserves to be watched.
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