_Modern Family_ Series Finale

If the show had ended after five years it would have been regarded as a classic, but it limped along and ended up feeling like a greedy cash grab by producers and actors.

It was pretty good - not overly sentimental, but I do agree it could have been done in a single episode.

The whole convenient bit with Haley and her family moving into Cam and Mitch's brand new house was pretty stupid, though. How are they going to pay the rent/mortgage?

If I had been Mitch, I'd have said "no way" to moving to Missouri.

I watched it during the first three or four years and thought it was quite witty.

I tried to tune back in last year, but it was achingly unfunny, and the former child actors, especially Manny, had morphed into spectacularly untalented adult actors. (I am in the minority who thought the effete Manny of a decade ago was quite well done.)

I have no interest in the finale. It ended for me years ago.

R3 Same. I loved it in the first season, then I loved the few seasons that followed that. However, I started to feel it was comedy by numbers by about year 5. The scripts were becoming identical. I agree with R1. This was a show that would have been a classic for years to come, had they ended it at season 5. However, they have now produced so many mediocre episodes it will likely be forgotten in a few years time.

Is it in syndication yet?

I would have thought so. It's had well over 100 episodes. That's why they could have bowed out at season 5, they would have produced enough to go into syndication.

I didn't care for most of the characters but I hated Ed O'Neill and the bitchy cheerleader daughter the most.

R2, Haley didn't move into Mitch and Cam's new house, they were renting their old place.

I thought the point of the show was for the audience to hate all of the characters equally? I know I did.

I agree with what was already stated, the first fiveish seasons were great, and I'll actually watch the older episodes if I run into them while flipping through channels.

I wish the trend of talking to the camera reality show style would end. It's time to move on.

Did we ever decide if Nolan Gould was family?

r11 Oh, honey......

R10 It's now become a way to produce 'TV Comedy' that no longer requires jokes, as there is no studio audience to laugh. Watch the UK 'The Office' and see why this concept worked initially. I also felt Lisa Kudrow's 'The Comeback' nailed the one camera documentary too. The point of filming a comedy like a documentary is the camera is supposed evoke a behaviour in the subject. So Ricky Gervais always said David Brent was actually an OK guy in real life, but he was playing up to the camera and unwittingly making a complete fool of himself. Similarly, Kudrow's Valerie Cherish is constantly 'performing' for the camera. So the humour is brilliant when they say or do something knowing it's been filmed and try to back track. Both The Comeback and The Office UK eventually showed glimpses of the leads real personas and their decency came across.

What I started to notice with Modern Family, is the talking directly into the camera served little purpose. As the characters were not aware of a broken fourth wall. So it the direct to camera talking started to become irritating, when you noticed the characters clearly weren't interacting with the camera the rest of the time.

Did they address the "documentary film crew" finally being out of a job in the finale?

That never made any sense and turned me off from the start.

I wasnt all that thrilled with it. I thought mitch and Cam were too exaggerated campy etc. Nolan Gould turned into a cutey for sure.

The documentary gimmick is going to age very poorly, with future viewers finding it ridiculous. Because it is.

I did enjoy one scene from the first season when Jay found a necklace in Manny's possession. He calmly asked Manny if he intended to wear the necklace. He have a subtle look of panic on his face. You could tell he was thinking that he might have turned another son gay.

R13 Yes, it might have worked initially for some shows but it's so overdone. R16 No question, the talking to the camera will one day be seen as just as dated and ridiculous as the over the top audience reactions of 80s sitcoms.

I watched the wonderful series finale of Schitt's Creek right before I watched the Modern Family one and it paled in comparison. Mitch is an idiot for moving to Missouri, no way could Haley and her mentally retarded husband afford Cam and Mitch's old place, and Phil and Claire would be thrilled the kids are moving out so they can wear disguises and fuck all over the house. I did think it was kind of sweet that Jay learned Spanish but it's been 11 years he should be fluent by now. Lilly is the devil.

So great things happened to everyone at the same time, resulting in everyone relocating at the same time. Sounds like the series finale of Good Times.

It was nice, but it also left me rather cold. And am I the only one who got a Golden Girls' finale vibe from the repeated "group hug!" bit? The whole thing with Mitch and Cam getting the new baby and the new house only to move to Missouri? Haley, Alex and Luke cramping Claire and Phil's style one moment and then in the next scene they all are ready to move out?

It almost feels like the showrunners expected to get another season and then scrambled to deliver a finale.

I never could stand Phil right from the get go and right to this end. Most of the shows in these last few years centered around Phil or Phil and Clair who I really don't like either. So I watched very sporadically the last few years. I've seen better series endings. This one seemed very false, that all those things would happen at the same time and that Mitch would ever move to Missouri or that he'd want his kids to grow up in such a place.

How much surgery has the actress who plays Gloria had? She looks younger now than she did on the first show of the series,

Haven't watched yet. Please tell me that Luke stepped out of the shower, pool, or bathroom naked and nearly erect?!?! Yes?

[quote]no way could Haley and her mentally retarded husband afford Cam and Mitch's old place,

I assumed that Cam got a HUGE pay increase becoming head coach at the university. Also, they filmed it prior to AirBnBs complete collapse, so they had been renting it out and making money.

Cam and Mitch are probably not charging them a lot to rent the lower apartment, and they are managing the rental of the upper one. When the husband finally finishes nursing school, he'll make a decent living - probably making about $50-60K as an RN in Los Angeles.

Oh as an RN, Dylan's absolutely getting the coronavirus r24. I would have preferred that as a finale.

It was such a funny show the first two years: the kids were such un-selfconscious child actors, and were hilarious. But then they grew up and be came mannered and awful (except for the girl who plays Haley, who has always been funny). And Cam's hysteria act grew so tiresome and unfunny.

I loved the awkward moments between Jay and Phil, e.g. the time in Hawaii when they ended up laying on top of each other on a hammock, the time Jay sat on a bench, blocking the view of Phil's real estate sign; the remaining words said "Not a man". There was another awkward moment during the finale. Would have liked to see a scene where Jay admits he's glad that Claire married Phil and he couldn't have a better son-in-law (except for Cam).

NEVER liked this show for the gay couple. Horrible portrayal of gay men. Absolutely awful.

I gave up after the first season

Is it true that in the second-to-last episode there was a brief shot of Phil's butt crack? Somehow I missed that.

R30, yep.

Hoping Jesse Tyler Whatsersnatch and Fatty Boom Blatty fade into oblivion

Was Phil's ass hairy?

I watched it a couple nights ago. Or attempted to. I found it so overblown and mawkish it was making me very depressed so I had to switch over to the Rachel Maddow Show.

The adults were paid a lot of money, the kids not so much. I wonder whether any of them will score another show. I doubt the kids will. Other than Ed O'Neill and Sophia Vergara, Phil is probably the only one who'll get another show any time soon.

Sad news ladies Nolan’s not gay

Julie Bowen already has another show lined up. Hopefully that was the lsst we see of Lilly and that unfunny pig.

I liked the show throughout its run. The later years were uneven, but still had moments of laugh-out-loud zaniness. It was one of those shows that just were comforting to pop on and watch an episode or two - not many of those around these days.

R27, do you remember the episode in which Phil gave Jay a massage? Awkward and SO funny.

r21, The Golden Girls ripped that off from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

Do they all die from COVID-19?

Too soon, R41. Lol