What was his big showcase scene this year? The Hershey pitch? How does that play out of context in a reel?
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What was his big showcase scene this year? The Hershey pitch? How does that play out of context in a reel?
because season 2 was like a gut punch of boredom, and season 3 was a season entirely made up of build up.
I think that Modern Family change up quite bit of variables that you see with other family sitcoms especially ones that were done in the past. Modern Family revolves around three separate family units instead of just one. The Middle's family unit features a heterosexual couple household, while Modern Family features a heterosexual couple household, a homosexual household with an adopted Asian child, and 60 year old married to Colombian wife with a teenage child with all of those families coming together at the end.
This is 2013. Featuring a gay couple in the main cast doesn't make it ground-breaking TV (especially when they seem to lean on gay stereotypes more and more when writing those two characters). It's a funny enough show, but they got lucky with cast chemistry and good writing the first season and have been coasting ever since.
Are you trying to say that The Middle is groundbreaking? I sure hope you aren't. And actually a sitcom that has a married gay couple with an adopted child IS groundbreaking. What other show in the history of TV has had a MARRIED gay couple so prominent to how the show works?
Sorry, I went offline for quite some time. Yep, I believe there are some overlapping characters, but not all, and this season went all alien-y. That makes sense, I didn't know they got to choose.
I'll give you that season 2 got a little slow at times but season 3 was great. Seemed like a natural and pretty reasonable story progression to me.
No, I just think its funnier than modern family. Modern Family has been coasting on its early buzz since that first season. And the reason I wouldn't exactly call it progressive is that you could swap in a straight couple and still tell a lot of the same stories. Not all, but a lot. Maybe that is progressive, who's to say? I just don't think it should equal automatic award wins.
The first couple seasons of Modern Family I thought it was one of the funniest things on TV. It hasn't been nearly as good recently, but Phil Dunphy is still one of my favorite characters.
The real story of this whole thread is this GD tragedy! Funniest show on TV gets axed because it doesn't water down like allllllll of mouth breathing BS on TV. Just terrible.
Well that and a lot of the younger audience for the show watched it on DVR or online which networks can't figure out how to make money from.
Good point, I thought that show had more jokes per minute than any other network show. The group dynamic to me was similar to Its Always Sunny in Philly but much more toned down.