TMC
07-07-2026, 01:28 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2026/07/07/the-ten-best-modern-family-episodes-of-season-nine/
Out of all eleven seasons, Modern Family’s ninth is its dullest and most forgettable. Oh, the series’ overall quality will continue to erode after this. Its struggle to narratively sustain itself will lead to both more recycling and more contorting of the main characters in order to justify increasingly broader, less-specific (and certainly less premise-backed) notions. And in that regard, the worst is yet to come. However, both Ten and Eleven were crafted to be the series’ swan song, meaning they observe more conscious efforts to instill in individual episodic samples more character, and sometimes even premise-affiliated, stakes. Not always successfully, but enough to make those collections stand out with a higher variance in quality — more lows, yes, but a few highs too. With Nine, though, it’s pretty much all flat — consistent in its mediocrity. Well below average by the standards of this series, and the genre’s as a whole. In fact, this is a full season that, really, you could just skip. There’s nothing here that’s worthwhile in our examination of Modern Family or 2010s sitcoms… But let me not be too harsh.
Out of all eleven seasons, Modern Family’s ninth is its dullest and most forgettable. Oh, the series’ overall quality will continue to erode after this. Its struggle to narratively sustain itself will lead to both more recycling and more contorting of the main characters in order to justify increasingly broader, less-specific (and certainly less premise-backed) notions. And in that regard, the worst is yet to come. However, both Ten and Eleven were crafted to be the series’ swan song, meaning they observe more conscious efforts to instill in individual episodic samples more character, and sometimes even premise-affiliated, stakes. Not always successfully, but enough to make those collections stand out with a higher variance in quality — more lows, yes, but a few highs too. With Nine, though, it’s pretty much all flat — consistent in its mediocrity. Well below average by the standards of this series, and the genre’s as a whole. In fact, this is a full season that, really, you could just skip. There’s nothing here that’s worthwhile in our examination of Modern Family or 2010s sitcoms… But let me not be too harsh.