The Seven Best MODERN FAMILY Episodes of Season Eleven

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Season Eleven is Modern Family‘s most unnecessary collection. Not only had the show fallen below its own average quality way back around Six, but the previous year, Ten, had already done a decent-enough job preparing itself to be the series’ last. It offered narrative arcs and developments that helped bring the show full circle, and even though this eleventh year was negotiated before Ten’s finale was produced, that ending still served as an effective point of closure, evolving this “Modern Family” by adding to it via Haley’s twins. This acknowledged the premise and felt satisfyingly final — with many prior episodes also elevated by an enhanced situation-backed gravitas, especially compared to the dull and aimless Season Nine. What’s left for Eleven to do? Well, aside from actually seeing Haley be a mom — which, frankly, doesn’t yield as much as it should have — there’s a definitively final Halloween, a definitively final Thanksgiving, and a definitively final Christmas, along with one more outrageous farce and one more on-location vacation. All those are recurring episodic templates that have become staples of the series, so they naturally arrive with implied value. And yes, even more than in Ten, there’s extra weight because of the explicit finality.