The Inevitable Downfall Of Modern Family
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2021
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Modern Family at one time was the biggest sitcom on television. Giving us a brand new sitcom that broke barriers in showing what a true Modern Family looked like in 2009. As well as a dynamite cast that included TV Legends and several new comers. But by the end of Modern Family's run, the show lost the charm and appeal of the family sitcom, and audiences were left unfulfilled by the series finale.
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Written by Chris Teregis
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No.
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TL;DR: nigga chill
Yes sirr
Im still a little disappointed this show didnt end with a scene of the director going over all the footage and saying, "yeah, we can't use any of this."
*chef’s kiss*
That would’ve been perfect
OMG that would of been great! You should of been the writer post season 7 lol
Exactly l liked the finale but I thought it would have been created for the finale to show the behind the s wan of the family doing an interview that’s would have been dope to see
Love this idea
@@lawstshane yeah i wish they sat down and think really deep about 'ummph' factor for the ending
I personally enjoyed Modern Family from the first episode to the last.
Same here, the show is very consistent imo.
Same. The quality definitely got worse by the end, but it was still fairly consistent and very enjoyable imo. I don't think it had a jumping the shark moment, or any seasons that were just bad- like the office. Tbf I'm quite glad it went on as long as it did even if it was "too long" because I don't mind having a couple of mediocre seasons if it means getting more time with the characters
It peaked at Season 4 for me,took a dip but was still good imo. I also enjoyed it to the end and was teary when it ended
Agree w you
Ditto
I will always be mad that Haley didn’t end up with Andy, the character of her they developed when she has with him was way better, after they broke up I feel like her character was kinda lost, idk
i read that it was the plan after just a few episodes with Andy because they had great chemistry, but Adam Devine's schedule didn't allow that.
YES I SOOO AGREE WITH YOU!! haley andy all the way
You and thousands of others, including me.
If only Andy’s actor didn’t want to go onto other projects
SAME It was so sad ugh
"When life gives you lemonade, make lemons.
Life'll be all like 'what?!'"
-Phil Dunphy
phils-osophy
gotta love him
"Watch a sunrise atleast once a day"-Phil Dunphy
No, you don’t. His character is an anti-male stereotype. There is nothing funny about that. There is nothing funny about demonizing fathers the way this show does.
you missed the whole point, the problem is that they started with really smart humour and relatable situations to completely unreal and over the top storylines
The forced sappy messages they tried to convey in some of the later episodes made me cringe.
Yes indeed! So hard to top the incredible episodes, especially in Seasons 2 and 3. I guess as a parent I wanted them to stay young forever. And we know that doesn't happen.
I completely agree: case in point Alex in Antartica, Alex dating her sisters ex professor boyfriend who she was even going to get married to, Manny's acting career, Hailey's crazy job, the whole fiasco with pritchett's closets
@@INA-ry9wj you seriously think the earlier season didnt have its fair share of insanity? Your just picking the examples from the later seasons while ignoring the ones in later ones.
Yes I think you hit the nail here.
When you say useless death and showing the death of Phil's Dad, it's not useless it's an hommage to the actor's death in real life
The episode came out a few months before willard's death
@@vibhavadivi6766 Tssss... Oooh, bad timing.
@@vibhavadivi6766 Oof that's terrible.
@@carlosroo5460 he was in poor health already. Even in the show you see him struggling. It feels like a proper homage rather than a "dead character" episode. The actors genuinely seem stricken
That episode made me cry tbh
I will agree that overall, the quality of the show went down in later seasons, I believe they did end it in a very respectable way to fans. They may have dragged it out a bit longer than needed, but it could have been far, far worse.
The last 2 seasons are borderline unwatchable.
I felt the decline started immediately with season 8. Sure season 7 had it's problems but it was still funny and I liked Andy and Hailey's relationship. Season 8 though like it felt like no one was trying anymore and the writing was boring and lazy then it got worse from there.
@@CometStar100 , I thought that, but when I rewatched the shows after season 5, the jokes went down; but it was still funny, but after season 9, the show really stopped being good.
@@Cloverdew4406 I actually feel season 6 is my second favorite season. There was a lot that I found good in that season and I found the jokes to be as good as previous seasons. I don't understand why they dragged the show out like this. It really tainted their legacy and season 7 was a perfect place to end the show. I don't understand what they were thinking going beyond 7. Like I don't even want to see any kind of reunion at this point cause it really over stayed it's welcome and proceeded to kill a lot of characters.
@@CometStar100 true.
Modern Family always makes me feel like home anytime I watch it. It's sad that in the last seasons it felt like the writers did't even try anymore. For example : Hayley was getting more superficial, dumber, she was like a stereotype, while in the former seasons the character was developing and growing into a more mature and intelligent woman. I would have loved to watch each character grow even if we don't see the parents that much and we end up focusing on each kid's life. I've only watched the last season once and it was enough for me, whereas I binge watched the earlier seasons wayyyy too may times.
They ruined Haley when they made her go back to Dylan, her character development during the Andy seasons was probably the best in the entire show, i know he was acting as a guest but they shouldve kept him in the show
Man, I feel kinda silly talking about this, im a grown ass man haha but thats just what I think about it
@@MegaSilverBlood they couldn't keep Andy as the actor had other films he was making
@@MegaSilverBlood ya I was really hoping she would have ended up with Andy. Dylan was just annoyingly dumb
Yea it really sucks that they couldn’t really do anything with her
Post Andy break up
Like after they wrote his character out of the show they had no idea what to do with her
Heck her ending up in a situation Rather relationship with the same guy from season one showed how much she regressed as a person and as a character
Haley's character is so mean and dumb
This is what happens when shows go on for WAY longer than they should. When the kids and teenagers grew up, there was no Ionger any precocious children around, which is why they added Joe in later seasons.
Should ended at top of it's career
Joe was funny though. That kid actually had good comedic timing.
@@bknsty14 yeah he felt very natural, which is actually pretty impressive
Cousin Oliver
agreed, whenever a new child is added it is time to stop watching a family sitcom. Same thing happened on Blackish when they had another baby. I'm glad the shift to streaming service created shows seems to be shifting things so that when a series starts there is an endgame already planned.
With all the kids, the ones that stayed the same was Lily and Manny. They were too "adult" when they were kids. When they finally got older, it was the samething but them older. Luke became the streetwise, lovable himbo. Haley became a family woman and entrepreneur sorta like her dad. Alex didnt change much but became more human and less "Spock logic" type. Lily and Manny... never changed. Which is the problem when you make kids act like adults.
there is a way to make that work though. you could make them loosen up as adults perhaps even becoming surprisingly immature or irresponsible
@@theshockinglyeloquentdog9945 Except that never came for Lily and Manny. At least for me Lily had her moments. I freaking HATE Manny, which is probably why they needed Joe. The Manny + Luke dynamic never amassed to anything. Manny was just an accessory to highlight Gloria's past. Lily had no real connections either, even with her fathers asidd from just being bitchy towards them in the gay stereotype way. However Lily was funny when she was a kid. Manny... annoyed the shit out of me from the moment he appeared on screen. Sorta glad Joe came to kinda phase him out a bit.
@@Felhate i'm not saying they did, i'm saying they could have gone somewhere with it instead of going nowhere with it
Manny became really annoying in later seasons. It's like he was very mature when he was young but then he kind of turned into an annoying child as an adult. An article I was reading really put it into words, "Manny carried a more mature attitude as a child, which was refreshing compared to other kids, but that hasn't translated very well into adulthood. While the rest of the Pritchett, Dunphy, and Tucker-Pritchett kids have matured over the years, many Modern Family fans feel that Manny has done the opposite: become being a whiny, entitled, know-it-all child as he's gotten older.
@@Felhate they didn't know what to do with lily when she grew up
The show failed to give the kids time to shine as growing adults; instead of having episodes focussing on only them and reducing the screen time of the parents, Modern Family did the opposite and only focused on the parents. As well as the massive issue with unresolved plot narratives and missing information regarding personal friendships and careers. The show went on for two long with little growth in the story telling content.
Part of that was intentional. Ty Burrell said they didn't want their characters to grow and change otherwise the things people love about the characters that make them laugh would be gone, or something to that effect. I strongly disagree with that, but that's how writers approach sitcoms. It's comfort viewing.
I think alot of that had to do with several of those kids growing up to be terrible actors. Luke for example was a fan favourite in the beginning, but as he grew up it became painfully obvious that Nolan Gould is not a good actor. This is the case with Manny and especially Lily.
@@serenaistheb.o.a.t how is it not a good actor?
@@serenaistheb.o.a.t you're a not very smart person
@@serenaistheb.o.a.t the kids all sucked except for hayley the parents were always better so I agree
The most annoying thing for me in Modern Family was Hayley’s character ‘growth’. The writers never seemed to want her to grow up, she was lazy, selfish and immature and every time we had an episode where Hayley would finally be called out it would end with her yelling and coming up with a new career that the writers would abandon, (her photography, being an influencer, working in fashion) and Phil and Claire apologising to her as usual. (Except when she was arrested at collage and Phil finally gave her a telling off for once).
I read somewhere that Sarah Hyland was also disappointed with Hayley’s ending and wanted more for her character. When the writers knew that Andy and Hayley couldn’t be endgame because Andy’s actor was too busy with other projects they should have left her single and given her an amazing career (that stuck) without needing to constantly have a guy by her side. I feel like a bigger surprise and more interesting storyline would have been Alex getting pregnant in college and having the first grand baby instead. It would given Ariel Winter a bigger character storyline instead of just constantly studying all the time.
Yes i agree sm
EXACTLY the way the show treated Hayley is honestly so annoying because she had so much potential too!!!
She was always incredibly hyper for one thing, but that gave her character.
I absolutely agree I’ve never thought about how interesting the show would be if Alex would get pregnant and Hayley successful
Alex and Sanjay Patel having a baby together whilst in college would have been really interesting especially as they went to different places, with Alex being close to home at caltech I feel like it could have worked really well
Imagine calling Frank, Phil’s dad, death unnecessary. That episode was probably the best episode of the entire 11th season. And the fact that the actor actually passed away 4 months later after it aired makes it hit that much more.
I'm sorry, but Frank's death was terrible, we don't have the reaction of any other character besides Phil and after he dies no one mentions him in the series. We don't see any of his grandchildren mourning, nor his daughter-in-law, nor his wife. It would have been much better if the entire ep was Frank spending time with each family member and perhaps helping with something and giving a life lesson, only to show in the end that he was dead.
Dede's death was more relevant to the story, there was a whole ep and then some other eps about that tree
I always felt that they didn’t explore some character relationships much. Also we barely saw characters such as lily. It felt like they repeated plots with the main adult characters.
They definitely recycled plots. Phil and Claire redoing their race, or Phil and Jay going to fly planes again comes to mind.
Lily was there for diversity there was many episodes where she wasn’t even in them, she was more important when she was a baby because it added to the plot and then the show basically didn’t know what to do with her character.
@@bryeetsonny9458 actually Lily's actor wanted to focus more on school so she wasn't on the set much
@@valthedestroyer i think phil, jay, and dylan going to fly planes at the end was good should have gone full circle with dylan getting hit by phil flying the plane tho
That's why I eventually stopped. It felt like I was just watching the same episode over and over again, hearing the same jokes again and again.
Haven't watched yet, but "Inevitable" sounds right. When Modern Family first premiered, it was a novel idea to reinvigorate the traditional sitcom. But what was novel like ten years ago, is the 2020s...normal.
"We have two dads!" "Cool, so does my friend David."
Lmao also true. They tried something different in that one season 9 episode which touches on the new wave of sociopolitical debate, but that didn't exactly hit. At least not for me.
One thing I cannot forgive the writers is how they did Haley dirty at the end.
SHE 👏 DESERVED 👏 BETTER 👏
She deserved Andy
@@Unmercey1360 yes Andy was end game. I hated Dylan from the moment he first stepped on screen till the end.
@@INA-ry9wj Ikr? She Was starting to grow up and focus on important things and they put this knucklehead again. Smh
True lol Dylan's character felt more interesting when he wasn't w haley he was basically just an accessory at the end of the season whereas Andy actually made sense and had his own character aside from being haley's bf
Reminds of Simpsons
Was an original idea making fun of stereotypes, ends of becoming what it was making fun of
Likewise, it becomes a parody of itself before too long.
It's why they're called "Zombie Simpsons"
Or how they became a satire of themselves.
That’s a really good analogy, I never thought of that connection.
The Simpsons really hated those saccharine family sitcoms of the 70’s and 80’s, and to some extent it’s always kept a similar pessimistic tone (Bart Simpson being a VERY bad role model for kids), but it’s no longer subversive and just clichéd when held up to edgy cartoons like Family Guy. To some extent EVERYONE is stereotyped in The Simpsons (do-gooder daughter, dutiful housewife, fat sitcom dad who drinks a lot and doesn’t do anything at work), but the early seasons actually did something with that-the characters weren’t JUST stereotypes: they loved one another and had interesting familial dynamics.
Modern Family was much more satirical in its execution, at least at the beginning, questioning what it meant to be a family. The Dunphys are the only nuclear family of the three (Jay was divorced, so he, Gloria, and their son don’t count) and Mitch and Cam are presented as just as loving as the others-a rarity for a gay couple on television at the time. Then society progressed and the show wasn’t subversive anymore, and it seemed to have less and less to say about family dynamics besides “Haha laugh at the Colooombian woman’s accent.”
@@cthulhutheendless1587 I feel like family guy entered that same cycle a long time ago. South Park is the only "edgy cartoon" that, for me, is as funny now as it's ever been, and that's down to how they use current topics as ballast.
They were suppose to destroy them, not join they're Force!!
The characters were flanderized a lot. The same thing happened to the office and parks and rec. Every popular show gets flanderized in the later seasons
I think it's because of bad writing, not staying on air too long
I think it's because you have such a big cast then their contracts need to be renewed and they typically ask for a crazy amount of money for their renewed contract which then causes a lot of the writers to be cut which then effects the overall quality of the show. The writers make a show not the actors. I feel once you get to the point where the actors contracts are up in any show then the show should end so the og writers can finish the show they started and then it does not affect the legacy of the show.
I said this, too! They were all flanderised to a certain extent, but I found that Phil and Jay were the most flanderised. Phil became a such a massive idiot who was incredibly immature, and Jay's character did a bit of a 180 into the "silly old grandpa trying to stay relevant" trope and then just stayed there. Of course, these aspects to the two characters were present in parts in the earlier seasons, but there was more to them than just that. All that meat got taken out and we were left with two plain bread buns for characters lmao.
The trope is named for the Simpsons character of Ned Flanders who became a religious stereotype to irritate even Rev Lovejoy. The more episodes that are made, the more that writers forget the more nuanced aspects to the characters and the more general fan impression becomes dominant so that’s what gets played to in the writing room. Character arcs ignored in favour of hijinks, that sort of thing. Characters who are loud and imposing are later written with that as their singular character trait, never mind they realised that people don’t like them for this and tried to change back in season three.
The Goldbergs do the same thing when flanderizing their characters.
Can anyone explain how the Simpsons are still on? No one ever talks about them, I never hear any advertising, and nobody ever does any reviews! Who the hell is keeping them afloat?!
Money laundering and the twelve nerds who are rich superfanatics.
The mafia
I've been wondering this myself for some time now.
Right? I thought the show ended in the early 2010s so knowing it's still around is a surprise!
The illuminati
As soon as Lily became older, my comic relief disappeared
The worst interactions in the show are between lily and Jay.
He like, directly compares her to Vietnamese prostitutes he was sleeping with with during the war at more than one occasion. All the memories she will have of that guy are going to be terrible and creepy as fuck.
@@Porlarta LMAO, Jay is an asshole and that's why people love him. He's got a fucked up sense of humor.
she was never a good actress, I´m sorry to say but she had zero comical effect, that´s why she barely had any plotlines, thank the screenwriters for that, it could have been much worse.
@@Victorcolongarcia Why do people say Lily is a bad actress just because she isn't flamboyant or extra like some of the other characters. If anyone was a "bad actor" it was Luke in the earlier seasons.
@@Victorcolongarcia LMAO, you dumb af. She was great in her role. Always sassy, snarky and a great contrast to her flamboyant fathers.
I love modern family but in the later seasons it became its own satire. Every character just got more and more stereotypical and just .. weirder just to be „entertaining“. But in reality the more subtle humor was what made the show great in the first place.
"Cousin Oliver syndrome," or, "cute kid syndrome." Whenever a family sitcom's youngest kids are no longer young enough to be cute and automatically endearing just by being young, they start to expand the cast. Generally with a cute young kid. This is almost always a bad idea. I suppose what they should've done if they really want to keep the show going would have been to gradually phase out the adults and focus exclusively on the kids. You know, drop some of them down to recurring status where they would only turn up four or five times a season, then do that for more and more of the adults, and transition entirely to the kids. Obviously there's no way in hell they would do something like that because it would upset the existing chemistry, but it would've been interesting to see if that kind of thing would've worked
The show started with 3 families all who had been married for a while/ married before. I would have really loved to see a young couple just experiencing their own life for the first time, trying to figure out life issues and such. I mean that's a family too.
@@hittingyouoverthehead I think youre forgetting jay and gloria had only been married a few months at the start of the series
I still liked the last few seasons but what bothered me was the way they ended a lot of the storylines. Mitch, Lily , Cam, and the new baby moving to Missouri in particular really bothers me. Also Alex moving to Switzerland to date her boss? But other than that I think it lasted very well
realistically Mitch and Cam would've never left all their friends, their family to move to a farm. It didn't make any sense.
to be fair, alex moving to switzerland was a lot about working in her new research job to actually make a difference as well. but yes, i wholeheartedly agree about mitch, lily, cam and the baby!
@@gabriel-kr4nh but her dating her boss just seems inappropriate and weird
@@katherinemadden5856 oh yeah totally, i agree, it was super uncomfortable to watch
@@katherinemadden5856 her boss that dated her sister before her lmao
6 and 7 were actually my favorite seasons. I liked Andy. I enjoyed every episode consistently up until 10 and 11, not because the quality declined but just because, for me, I did not love Haley being a mom, understand the reasoning like the full circle, but it just felt like Haley being pregnant would be the perfect ending.
Andy was actually cringe and unfunny for a sitcom ...they should have not streched him in the show for 3 seasons ,it was perfect if he just left at mitch and cam wedding
And This is ladies and Gentlemen another example that Comedy Shows peak during their season 6- 8 after that's it just Exist happened with FRIENDS, TBBT, Modern family, Been watching The Office at Season 5 let's see how that turn out
Perfect timing, just finished a rewatch of the series a couple days ago.
Same 😅
I just finished the series rewatch like a week ago lol nice
LMAO, same here!!!
Finished my third rewatch just the other day
Yeah finished the show last week for a second time. I felt the immediate decline in the show was season 8 cause the comedy and writing sucked plus it felt like no one was trying anymore with season 8. Season 7 is where it should of ended cause I felt like there was a lot there to make it a final season plus that season was funny but then they continued the show unfortunately.
I absolutely loved the kind of humour they started out with, it only got better until season 5, after that the comedy just started feeling somewhat forced, as if they were trying too hard and some characters were made annoying. But anyways, I've got to appreciate the makers of this show for some amazing comedy that they gave us.
yes, exactly!
yep!!
Couldn't agree with this more!
I think it's actually impressive the show still managed to be funny and heartwarming even until the end, even if the jokes weren't as funny as the early seasons. The show was definitely not envisioned to last longer than it did, or even as long as it did. They set it up with kids who would be off to college around the time sitcoms usually wrap up. With the kids gone there wouldn't be a show anymore but they continued to do more seasons anyway because the demand was there.
i watched the show for the first time ever this year on hulu from start to finished. almost everyone just became so unlikable by the end of it. everyone had a trope they overused and it was just exhausting having to see the same scenarios go down. every episode is played out the same. some one misunderstood someone else and instead of clarifying they come up with some stupid plan to fix it and make things worse.
Yeah man, same here. The series was so funny in the firsts seasons, but after the Andy broke up with Haley, all started too feel repetitive.
The same struggles all over again...
@@Arquias andy and alex were never a couple. did u mean haley?
@@333imaan my bad!! Its Haley
I watched the whole series for 6 times, and still watching it. I enjoy watching every episode, the script writing is just brilliant, it's not a sitcoms that "squeeze in things just to make more money", the messages the show want to convey, through each episode, is meaningful and powerful, even for the later seasons. Of course every production wants to keep on making more money, but Modern Family do justice for their script as well as actors' performances.
yes same, personally I think it’s great from start to end
I’m in season 11 on the first watch and have laughed consistently through the whole run of the show. I do think some of the episodes could have been regarding plot but it still doesn’t feel like a downfall
I have no problem with any season either.
Then you are a very easy to please consumer. Exactly what the advertisers want.
People also forget that these shows provide jobs for hundreds of people. It's not uncommon to want to keep things going in order to provide stable work for everyone involved. He makes it sound like the studio is only motivated by greed and there's probably some truth to that, but that "greed" is keeping people employed.
I honestly dont think Modern Family got worse. It was always good and i enjoyed every single episode from the pilot to the finale part 2! I rewatched the entire thing so many times now and i will do it again. What I get is the feeling of the perfect family and perfect life
Same. It reminded me of my family. Every episode reminded me of some memory; sometimes happy, sometimes sad, sometimes painful, but all good.
It objectively got worse.
@@kq2488 well..i would say some people liked it some did not..nd tht's fine
I’d say the show really went down hill with the increasing number of closet related storylines. They went full circle copying the Office with literally sending Claire to the office.
The closet storylines are really forgettable and overused. The only episode I enjoyed was when Gloria was at the office
Its weird that claire's storyline revolves her struggle as stay at home mom going back into working field, becoming privileged boss's daughter, then CEO ranging from season 4 near to early season 11 ONLY to have her resigning her position last minutes? Like what even happen to Prichett's Closet?
Once the writers split into two teams because the creators wouldn't work with each other anymore and they didn't take as many stories from their own lives into the writer's room, it was going downhill with the series fast.
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but I thought it was great all the way to the end 👍
Although the show did start to drop with the kids growing older, in my 20 years of watching sitcoms.. Phil Dunphy is by far the funniest and best performed character I've ever seen!
He along with Cam and Mitch totally carried the show.
I would like to encourage you to make a part 2 essay video as i dont think you went deep enough on the problems and didnt provide enough examples, positive and negative. I would recommend coming back to this topic at a later date and do a deeper dive , as Modern Family and its decline has not really been analyzed very clearly by other essayists and people want to understand more why they stopped liking the show and what they are potentially missing by not watching..
I agree.
This has been about only 1 out of the 2 video reviews on UA-cam that I've seen chat about this show's flaws in regards to its later seasons.
I honestly think it doesn’t get worse, they do have a problem in the storytelling but the comedy is gold from the beginning to the end, and even with these problems the series is way better than most of other tv shows and holds an impressive quality considering how many seasons it has
I disagree that it overstayed its welcome, and this will always remain one of my favourite shows with a very diverse set of characters. 99% sure I'm biased, but opinions are opinions.
There was no downfall. Loved them, enjoyed the show. Will miss it.
VERY rarely does a show, especially a sitcom, run for as long as Modern Family did without turning for the worse at the end
If they were actually modern, then half the kids would've still stayed with their parents until age 30.
Now THAT'S good drama!
BINGO!! 😆🤣😂
I feel personally attacked T_T
ha ha no
You're named after an std
@@firstlast1103 Nah Bro, the std was named after me
To me the show should have ended with Luke and Manny's high school graduation. It was the perfect moment. Jay and Manny sharing a scotch was the most emotional moment.
It's so weird to me when people are watching a show like Modern Family then complaining that the characters grow and change. They make weird decisions and don't end up in some fairy tale ending that we were "promised". The beauty of this show was that it was relatable. People grow and change. Kids get older, make mistakes, break the mold by becoming who they're going to be in the future.
Aside from showbusiness and money, I guess it's pretty hard to end a show. It either overstays its welcome or it's still awesome and fans want to see more. (I prefer shows ending a little earlier, on a good note. It makes room for something new!)
I was just lost on why the Modern Family Filter got more blue
Show really overstayed it’s welcome by at least two season.
That’s still an amazing compliment when you consider how many shows went on for three or four seasons too long. Or even more with BBT.
I feel like the US version of Shameless had a similar problem when Fiona left, and characters like Debbie and Carl took weird turns all of a sudden
I agree that the quality diminished in later seasons, but it wasn't too drastic. The show was still entertaining, it just started to feel a bit redundant. I actually thought that the show was at its worst in seasons 7 and 8, and started to improve after that. Although it may have become less relatable, the show remained at a pretty high standard of quality throughout its entire run and had a memorable finale.
Edit: Seriously, season 9 was so much more entertaining than 8 even if it did jump the shark a bit
I feel the same way. The last seasons (especially 9) are actually better than the seasons in the middle.
@@thiagodeoliveira9294 I would actually say I prefer 10 and 11 to 9, but all are pretty good
when it comes to overstaying the welcome I definitely think of Grey’s Anatomy first. That show is NOTHING like what it once used to be
Given the topic of overstaying, I really would like to see what you guys’s thoughts are on The Walking Dead series
they have no ideia what they're doing anymore
By the time I was halfway through college, I thought this show was off the air or on it's final days. Didn't realize it actually had an 11 year run. Modern family is perhaps the first 2010's family sitcom as well even though it started in 2009 just because it originally led the way for 2010's family sitcom diversification.
Glee gets credit for putting more prominence on LGBT+, even if the way it’s done is far from subtle and can cause quite a few double standards (a few times at the expense of Finn), but Modern Family did more to normalise it by having the gay couple be one of three main households, and just as flawed and well rounded as the other two for the couple and the family living there. There was much less tokenism, much less of “did you know we are gay” and more of “we are two men who are in a relationship but have a lot more going in our lives”.
First 3 seasons were the best
I got to series 5
Painful by then
100% agree. They were legendary.
"Sometimes shows have a way feeling like they are hanging around a little too long." is way understating this problem. Almost all American TV shows with any kind of success run until every last dime is squeezed out to of them.
This show was great when it started but it had no business winning the best comedy series Emmy 5 years in a row
Can't even believe your timing, guys. Started the rewatch and currently midway through the 10th season
I absolutely loved this show at the start.
Seasons 1 - 3 were perfect.
4 and 5 were good.
From 6 onwards they were fresh out of ideas as the kids were older and just reverted to every episode being absolute chaos with Phil shouting all the time.
I gave up around season 7.
Really? I felt seasons 6 and 7 were good. I would say season 6 was one of my favorite seasons. Season 7 was definitely kinda weak but I felt it was still funny and everyone was still trying plus I liked the Andy and Haley stuff. Season 8 is when the show took a nose dive and never recovered. The writing sucked, it wasn't even that funny and it seemed like everyone stopped trying. Season 7 had good setup for everyone to have good endings for their characters but then they dragged the show out for 4 boring seasons.
I have to agree! Seasons 1 - 3 were perfect, and 4 and 5 were very good albeit 5 having a few minor bumps. Seasons 6 and 7 were still good ENOUGH for me to watch, but I avoid some episodes because I don't like them which just doesn't happen in the early seasons. Season 8 was when it became genuinely low-quality for me, and it just got worse and worse from there.
Really? Season 7 was one of my favourites! For me, season 9 felt useless and forced and then it declined to 10 and 11
@@madamebkrt The Australia episode in season 5 was trash. That was the bump 🤣
@@themoon7435 Yeah I think that was the first genuinely bad episode. The bikeys were funny though.
I started the show two weeks ago, just bc I’m off from school and I finished watching the last episode right now and I’m crying. What a beautiful show. How do I move on with my life now? 😭💔
Never mind the shows aging. I simply never watched any of the first runs for all those years. Then, suddenly I had 11 seasons to binge. Which I have twice already. FANTASTIC SHOW. Groundbreaking...Not like, "Florals for Spring", but truly groundbreaking. They broke the fourth wall gloriously. It is like we are there, in on the jokes both said & winked. Yes..It was time. I hated seeing 'Mary' go too...But it was time. In case you hadn't noticed...TIME is what we all run out of. TgT
Modern family and the middle were shows I loved watching with my mom. She passed away last year and I adore rewatching those shows.
May she rest in peace
My favorite feature of Modern Family was that it taught even a non-American person like me who grew up in a completely different culture, that the concept of family is universal. Of course, there were some cultural differences, but when I watched it, it felt like a scene from my own family. It has lost this feature in last seasons, it has become boring and somehow "forced". I think the biggest reason for this was that children grew up but they were shown to us very superficially what kind of adults they are becoming when they were growing up.
For example they showed the audience very different life path for Hailey, but in the end they tied it to a completely unrelated story. For Alex it was just the opposite, there was no excitement at all. She was only a nerd from the beginning of the show and later on she went out with a couple of guys so we saw that she had a little bit of a human side too. Manny's only thing, I think, is that he's Gloria's son/Jay's stepson and he loves art. There is no depth to the character. It is acceptable for the character to be superficial when he was a child, but the 20-something-year-old man should have a little bit of personality and this needs to be reflected to the audience.
I can't say anything about Lily because when she should have grown up and got to discover herself, the show ended. Gloria and Jay's son was a completely unnecessary character. Adding a new child to the show, when there was an opportunity to tell stories about the characters that were already shown and introduced to us for years and show their lives detailed, seemed absurd to me. To summarize, in my opinion, the biggest mistake of Modern Family was that it didn't include the adult lives of the characters, who were children in the beginning of the show, as detailed as their parents.
The only thing I hated about this show was that sisnce there were so many character, not everyone was able to shine. They joked about Cam and Mitch not knowing anything about Lily, but it doesn’t make it an excuse to not make a full episode revolve around her than what we barely got
modern family is my favorite show out there. i think its funny and well written and the characters are all so likable. i think that it did have a dip in quality around season 7. and the final season could've definitely been a lot better.
I love this show, it's consistent af imo.
I loved this video! Around the 5th season Modern Family began cracking I felt, but during seasons 6 and 7 it still managed to hit more than it missed. By season 8 the hits got rarer and rarer, and season 9 was garbage so I stopped watching. I never considered that the children having grown up could have been the cause, but in hindsight you are totally right! At least for the most part. A telltale sign for me that the show was getting worse was that later on in its run there was a different credited writer and director for practically every episode, and the character flanderisation was awful. I found Phil was the most flanderised here, and Jay was completely ruined as a character when the writers decided to dive deep into the "fusty, silly old man" trope for him.
This is more of a nitpick than anything else, but Julie Bowen's obvious facelift/botox was all I could pay attention to in each later episode. It looks comical, and in film/television especially it is distracting as facial acting is so important...and you can't do that so well when you can't move your face! I don't think she could perform that season 3 episode where she was practicing for (and later participating in) the debate with Dwayne Bailey anymore.
I don't think so it really got worse because I still watch it, still watching it even after watching it for like 5 times the entire series. It just helps me cope with my anxieties and panic attacks and because of modern family I haven't taken any medication also. I just feels so happy and good and comfort when I watch this show. It gives me a sense of family, love and support which unfortunately I never had. Modern family means a lot to me. I love the show ❤
i really liked all seasons. Meant alot to me that show.
I would love to see a video like this about blackish 🤔
Main problems with later seasons
1. Undoing Hayley's growth
2. Turning Luke into Quagmire
3. Manny and Alex, in general. And sometimes, Gloria
Very nice as always guys. Would you consider doing anything on China Illinois!?
I‘ve watched the show like 4 times, and I still laugh to every joke .
I don’t think there was a downfall and I find every joke very smart, creative and funny.
The character development is awesome, and the writers created characters that are so alive I feel like I could encounter them in real life.
Maybe there are some plot holes, for example, what happened to jay and Phil’s parking area? or Phil’s magic shop?
but I think overall Modern Family is an awesome show, that makes me cry, laugh and feel so many different emotions.
If there is going to be a new modern family spinoff im definitely going to enjoy it
I have been waiting for this very video, thank you!!
I enjoyed the show and even watched it twice, but on second viewing all of its flaws became bye oblivious to be. It's a very superficial show that relies on stereotypes that are coated with a fresh coat of format (mockumentary). We have a loud latina that is a criminal, a stupid self absorbed teenager, a gay couple who are huge divas that love musicals and are both feminine (it's true that Cam also loves football and he lived on a farm, but that just doesn't change his mannerisms) and more cliches and stereotypes.
I didn't even see this video, because I feel the show was seriously the perfect combo of everything from humour to love... Out of all the shows I have ever watched the best finale was that of modern family, and it had the perfect ending! Andy and Haley should have ended up together but other than that, there was absolutely NO DOWNFALL for this show, it was just perfect! And it will always have a very special place in my heart!
The issue with the show was that the kids got older, got lesser time in the episodes and in general bar maybe Luke and Lily their characters got kinda boring. Had Haley stayed with Andy she would have been Top 3 best characters in the show, but she came back with Dylan and was arguably the worst. Manny's old personality was fun when he was a kid, when he grew older it just stopped being fun. And Alex development wasn't bad but it just could have been way better than your typical trips to Antarctica for research. All in all those latter seasons were still very much watchable but nowhere near season 4 to 6 were the show was just pure gold
Great Video!
I actually love the show from begining to ending. I love the later seasons as much as the beginning seasons. I have my favorites among the last seasons and first seasons and I have my favorite episodes from different seasons. That show is a huge comfort show to me.
What I mean to say that for me every single episode of that show is really important. That being said, for me the show is important in a very different way than as a series I'd be waching and really focusing on it's thecnical parts. It's dear for me. It gives me so much comfort but never the less, I can apreciate this video and the facts it's pointing out.
All in all this was a good video with good points and what I ment to say with my vomplicated comment is that I love the show
Exactly every single episode was so well made, and like in the later seasons with how many grown characters there were, there were so many story lines going aroynd which was rlky fun to watch. It barely had any filler episodes. Like its prob the only sitcom i can say that was good from start to end
I never actually liked this show. It was one of those shows that everyone talked about for a few years that I never understood the appeal of, but all the talk stopped all at once even though the show apparently continued. Glad I never invested any time in it.
I just finished the series (like literally) and I have to say I can totally understand why some decisions the writers made came off as lazy or unfounded. Especially if you dedicated 12 years of your life being a fan.
However for a show that lasted 11 seasons, I simply cannot say it had even one season where I felt the people involved dropped the ball or were completely misguided. Sure I would’ve liked to have seen Manny have more development, and Alex ending up with her sisters ex is incredibly unfair to the character. But I don’t even see those as deeply massive flaws.
The show was always about the awkwardness and chaos of life and how beautiful that can be in its own way and it did that very well through all 250 episodes. The show isn’t perfect, none are. But the flaws are so minuscule in contrast to how great the show portrayed life in a big, chaotic but loving family. I totally understand why it lasted for as long as it did.
I personally loved every single episode of Modern Family and rewatched the show hunderts of times. It has come to a point where I know all the lines from an episode like "Connection Lost" and it's still not boring. Seeing the kids grow up as i grew up myself has become really great for me especially as I can realeate to Haley Dunphy so much. And even in sad situations i always had a good laugh about Modern Family. Love this show and will still love it in 50 years when i'm old and hopefully can see a spin off series of the Dunphy kids I will love even more.
I never watched modern family, guess it didn't really appeal to me growing up but I was aware of it. I see a lot of contrast of points brought up in this video to Malcolm in the Middle however. As the characters got older the plot had to adapt and eventually it got to the point where the majority of the original cast had grown out of their original characters.
One great show that overstayed it’s welcome
I feel like they should've ended it with Haley and Andy getting together, Manny and Luke graduating high school, Claire taking over the family business, Jay retiring, and stuff.
Ok can we talk about how incredibly genius Nerdstolgic’s joke with the ad break was? He literally put it over the clip that created the phrase “jumping the shark”
in which universe was Cameron written as "laid-back"? I LOVE THAT DRAMA QUEEN SO MUCH
Very interesting perspective, it is kinda like when it starts to change you have to look at it like a whole new show!!!
Well this show was about seeing these different type of couples growing with eachother as they deal with new experiences and their kids groaning up. So when all the kids grew up there was not much left. Phill & Claire are great but their kids is what makes them whole.
The kids got old.... thats all that happened
I still enjoy every single episode of Modern Family. But he does point out good points but this show will always have a special place in my heart.
Loved the vid!
When steve left I cried that was the saddest episode even now when I watch office I cry. I watched office 8 times but it all feels who I felt the first time
The Simpsons haven't been good in a long time now
The simpsons have been on life support since the end of the simpsons movie at least, and I'm always part of the group that thinks they should just let the simpsons go already (since it's trailing other shows rather than progressing modern media anymore).
no offense to the show or the actors, but i really liked young manny better. he acted really old for his age, and that's what made his character really funny to me.
You have a point there. I felt the adults had a chance to grow throughout the series, but the storylines for the kids were for the most part, not as good as they got older.
Great video!
The kids may have grown up, but it was still about the family navigating those changes as a family. Something we can all relate to. I thought it did much better than most shows that ran so long, especially ones with kids!
Probably the best show ever! From pilot to the end. It's hard to let it go.
I have watched modern family 4 times, I’m still not sick of it
I seem to agree with most of the people in the comments that the show never got "Bad" it just dipped in quality in the later seasons. As this is my favorite TV show of all time, I personally think the quality of the show over time went like:
Seasons 1 -3 : Golden Age but with a slight decline in greatness each season
Season 4: Definitely lower than the first 3 seasons but still overall amazing. Especially the final stretch of episodes!
Seasons 5 - 6: The first half of season 5 was like season 4, but quality shot way up in the latter half of season 5 and all of season 6.
Season 7: Last "Great" season. First half much better than second half.
Season 8: Steady decline with a few great episodes mixed in.
Season 9: Lowest point of the show for me, but still some really fun episodes (I.E. Lake Life, Wine Weekend)
Season 10: Overall better than season 9 with some really heartwarming moments, but still not as good as the first 6.5 seasons. Finally season 10 may have had the greatest episode since Lost Connection with A Year of Birthdays)
Season 11: Really sad and heartwarming at times and didn't have as much of the traditional Modern Family comedy as this was the farewell season. (The exception being The Prescott!) Definite rise in quality from season 9 and a good amount of 10 though.
Nobody what everyone says, I loved Modern Family until the end, it's one of those shows that I woulc watch again and again. It will always have a place in my heart, I first watched it when I was Luke and Manny's age, i honestly didn't understand it at first because english is not my first language, but I feel like I grew up alongside the kids, that's why i love it so much.
😂 this really got me in my feelings like I love this show so much I think Lillie is thee funniest character I cant believe there’s actually people who can find something wrong with this great piece of production 😂