Wednesday, Oct 3, 2012
A week and a
half ago, "Modern Family" cleaned Emmy win for Best Supporting Actor
and Actress in a Comedy, Best Director of comedy and best comedy for the third
year in a row. At the end of the show, claiming also a funny sketch that child
actress plays Lily is a bratty little diva, it was like a big party organized
in honor of "Modern Family". But as the series begins its fourth
season - his first in the last week - "Modern Family" is not the
sitcom once was. Hide his winning Emmy about moving average strip about the
family comedy welfare.
It is easy to see why Emmy voters like "Modern Family": This is neither Tragically Hip or unhip. It splits the difference between the old, backward, popular, anti-spirit CBS sitcoms and specializes in edgy, niche, "Cross Slide community with lower-rated comedies that the Internet is possessed (" Parks & Recreation "," "Girl "," Louie "). "Modern Family" is old-fashioned social-liberal again look good, but really funny. This is not particularly innovative, but it is not "Two and a Half Men".
Best episodes of "Modern Family" will follow the soothing, but not cloying formula among the pilots, in which the Pritchett-Dunphy-Delgado-Tucker extended communities all ended in a pool. In one particular episode, various permutations of the great pair of times in the stories, hopefully, echo, and subject to the other until a complete farce old family with love and madness as to an arbitrary example, a pumpkin to take super-family competition. Tearful Moments cut with zingers, or at least the very gags.
But like "Modern Family" has aged, their characters and their dynamics are inharmonious in slots, some more than others. Manny, hyper adulthood 13, who says things like, "Jay Want to enjoy my tea!" Stay happy, even if its material is cured as in any shtick. Less pleasant and more annoying are adults. Four seasons in consumed by the masculinity and his son and the lack of it his step-son Jay. Phil "cool dad" Dunphy was buffoon, Claire Dunphy more than a shrew.
The relationship established "Modern Family" as a liberal cause celebre sprouted feet of clay. Been Cam and Mitchell, the gay couple who have happily settled with an adopted daughter, suspended for the last three years beams in a number of US shows where they clearly showed that homosexual couples can be as dry and mean that the lines , It is also probably a good social as it is sometimes tedious television.
Mitchell tense and capricious cams are always arguing, the two experts to take offense. If they are, as they always do, they do it without physical affection. The outrage that the couple never kiss on screen died after a Season 2 Episode stated that Mitchell's embarrassing public displays of affection, but he hugged his sister and his father about his partner. "The New Normal" NBC be disturbed, but at least kissing gay couple and be seen together in bed.
The assassination of the most complete character was Gloria, a young woman of Jay and Manny mother. Sofia Vergara, who plays Gloria, has a Spanish accent thicker than the crust of the earth, and, uh, the game Mountains. Ty Burrell, who plays Phil, it was one of the subcommittees star of the first season, "Modern Family". Despite sent manipulate all of the material that has his life, Vergara was give are deeper, some of whom struggles great laugh anyway stories. Playing a Latina fire, bows regularly revolve around predictable jokes "Latina Fire": debate, the violence of his native Colombia, her eyes, she emphasizes prance around in ridiculously high shoes and is hot-headed and stubborn.! You can not pronounce "Luke!" She screams! She really screams! If it's not quite at the level of "Two Broke Girls" Just because some will make you laugh.
But the ultimate example of stealth malice "Modern Family" is the treatment of Claire Dunphy.
Claire is a
control freak, and that the series went, it was more. In order to monitor the
smooth running of his family, it can be recriminations and acute authoritarian
section. Often it is emasculated husband Phil goofball, a big kid, the
irrepressible although with very little help around the house in love with a
guy penetrated. (He runs to talk about how hot your stepmother Gloria is all
the time, what kind, is not only scary, and one of the examples of how
"Modern Family" Claire and Gloria often against any other.) It can be
resistant, and a horse, his children. It is understood by all Dunphys, Claire
contained, it is what her family management and also that there is no fun.
In an arc last season, Claire, a housewife who ran for city council. Preparation of a discussion of his family - hilarious, it must be said - they warned against the use of its regular network of condescending, angry gestures and vocal tics, a kind of roast his request habits. On election day, almost every single not really help him by members of the family of Claire, a show of disability for which - in contrast to standard style 'Modern Family "- there was no apology or consequences, with the exception of the defeat by Clare. A further consequence of last season pre-Claire and her two daughters at the same time her period and become unbalanced and too emotionally later. One speaker at the AV Club stated that it was impossible to tell the difference between "time Claire" and you say "normal Claire."
In spite of everything I still really like Claire and I'm not the only one. Julie Bowen, who plays Claire, won his second Emmy in the past week, it deserves expensive: It plays on the paper, the most unpleasant character "Modern Family" and it does it without quibble or pulled punches during Spiky, the enthusiastic energy and talent for pratfalls. Since older sitcoms, it will change to accidentally inability of people often end: Remember characters more or less the same as the properties and characteristics and jokes and they live more or less the same. Claire knows she strung up and heartbreaking, and they can not stop. It is constitutionally bound to be adults. (I would really curious to see a likability respective survey Claire and Phil broke the boundaries between the sexes.)
The performance of Bowen and his Emmy win isolate "Modern Family" of his cruelty to his character. How bad the show deals with Claire, Emmy voters nor compassion for them, so it can not be that bad, right? But Bowen did what all actors on "Modern Family" knows that allow the show by making better, funny, friendly and sophisticated than the material they are given to get away with jabs and insults.
