Modern Family-Yuck

[+ Gar1eth]

Is it just me, and I'll admit I haven't seen that many episodes, but I don't find it that funny. I mean it's occasionally amusing. But it's definitely not 'Must See' TV for me.

 

Gman

[maninsoma]

Most mainstream television comedies do nothing for me. I've probably watched Modern Family two or three times and don't think I laughed out loud once.

[inheat75]

I watched all episodes of seasons 1 and 2. I lost interest in season 3 and never watched it since.

[+ Gar1eth]

My Mom isn't that thrilled with it either.

 

Gman

[+ sync]

Is it just me, and I'll admit I haven't seen that many episodes, but I don't find it that funny. I mean it's occasionally amusing. But it's definitely not 'Must See' TV for me.

 

Gman

 

Most mainstream television comedies do nothing for me. I've probably watched Modern Family two or three times and don't think I laughed out loud once.

 

Me too.

[geminibear]

My Mom isn't that thrilled with it either.

 

Gman

 

Who cares about Nielsen ratings? The true American Television standard is Gman's mom.

[seaboy4hire]

I find 99.99% of tv boring. Thats why I no longer have cable and my tv hasnt been on in 4 or 5 yrs.

 

Hugs,

Greg

[craigville beach]

I only watch "Morning Joe" and local news. Anything else I may wish to watch I see on my Mac through one of the freebie sites or Netflix

[mike carey]

For me there is no 'must watch' TV, but I'm pretty closely engaged with Australia v Uruguay in the world cup rugby at the moment!

[+ azdr0710]

my TV is mostly only a vehicle for watching Netflix-sent DVDs - usually documentaries, old movies, or cable-series like House Of Cards, Deadwood, Weeds, etc......

 

will say "Modern Family" is/was? pretty funny and clever at times, but in a silly/light sort of way.....have not watched the newest episodes (if it's still being produced??).....

 

occasional evening surfing of the regular networks while staying at some hotel results in embarrassment and sadness at the state of current network television (and at the apparent demands of the viewing public)

[rvwnsd]

...occasional evening surfing of the regular networks while staying at some hotel results in embarrassment and sadness at the state of current network television (and at the apparent demands of the viewing public)

 

While I agree with you (and others who have expressed a similar sentiment) I think you will find that to be true of most television shows throughout the decades, including those that have been deemed "classics." I would offer that characterization is not limited to American TV.

[Moondance]

I find 99.99% of tv boring. Thats why I no longer have cable and my tv hasnt been on in 4 or 5 yrs.

 

YES! Going on a year without TV here. When did it get so boring? It literally puts you in a stupor--you know you're bored, but you're so bored that you can't pull yourself off the couch to do anything more interesting or productive. No thanks.

 

Of course, part of this is just the evolution of electronic distractions ... sitting around the TV every evening now seems as old-fangled as gathering the family 'round the radio.

 

 

[+ glennnn]

I thought it was just me! There isn't one show that I worry about missing. It is part of a general trend towards each of us seeking our own entertainment separately, rather than sharing with family, friends and the larger community. Do you remember when the whole country was enthralled by Dallas, or chuckling over The Mary Tyler Moore Show, or crying over Henry's death on Mash? And we all watched it on the same night. Today, we are each in our own rooms watching different things alone. I'm not sure what it means, but it represents a major sociological change.

[thickornotatall]

Modern Family misses all the marks for me...however it is not written for anyone with a working knowledge of real life and real people as it is with almost all sitcoms...I can't listen to Sofia Vergara....Jessie Tyler Ferguson..hopelessly not funny.....Eric Stonestreet....particularly unfunny....the whole lot..not funny...

I do however like Big Bang Theory....don't know why...just do..Mostly I have been watching Precode movies on Amazon Prime....1000's to choose from...streaming is free with a yearly subscription...

[actor61]

The reason I don't watch much network t.v. anymore is very plain and simple - the fuckin' commercials. I use the DVR function on my cable system and record shows I like (The Good Wife, Madam Secretary, The Middle) and then fast forward through the endless ads. I sometimes turn on CBS This Morning as I putter about after waking up but have given up on that too - in 1 break, I counted 17 commercials before they came back on the air. I use Netflix a lot, buy DVDs, stream movies, and even get stuff to watch from the library - all blissfully uninterrupted by the inane drivel of commercials.

[Moondance]

...Today, we are each in our own rooms watching different things alone. I'm not sure what it means, but it represents a major sociological change.

 

OR ... when in the same room, rather than co-watching a show (or, god forbid, showing any real interest in one another), everybody's got an iPhone in hand and whatever the hell they are reading/watching/texting on it is infinitely more interesting than anything taking place in that room. Pretty sad.

[gallahadesquire]

Then I'm the odd man out. Modern Family, Madame Secretary, Gotham are all well done, IMHO. Blacklist is fantastic, and it's on Netflix (after I missed it first-run).. My housemate pays for Netflix and HBONow; I pay for cable.

 

It's great to watch sports. I became baseball fan in 2004 when the Redsox finally did something. Now that they are back into their eternal slump, baseball is off the list.

Watching football has become interesting, and as an adopted New Englander, Deflategate did nothing to diminish my interest in the Pats.

 

I'm retired -- well, officially, disabled -- since mid-2012, but I can't bring myself to watching TV during the day. Night time comes, and wow.

 

Oh, and if ANY of you are ST:TNG fans: Netflix has the series in better definition (Not quite full 1080 HD; I think it's 720).

[+ Gar1eth]

For me there is no 'must watch' TV...

 

'Must See TV' was a slogan years for one of the Big 3 Networks (NBC, CBS, or ABC-American and not the Australian one in this case). But I can't remember which one. Actually I do. It was NBC.

 

...but I'm pretty closely engaged with Australia v Uruguay in the world cup rugby at the moment!

 

That's like soccer with tackling and the use of hands, right?

 

I don't watch a lot of TV lately. My previous place had bad reception, and the local cable company p*ssed me off so I never got it. Currently I'm in a temporary situation, but the digital airwave reception is lousy, and since I'm temporary, I can't get cable. I do have a Chromecast and a Roku. But I don't care what people say. At this point they still can't make up completely for cable or Network shows. Plus I could swear I've noticed lately that some shows I used to be able to get on a Roku Channel are no longer available. For example Mike Leigh's "Topsy Turvey" is no longer available online. And I last night after not watching TV for months I looked for Raul Esparza's 'Company' and Neil Harris' Symphonic Version. I thought I had bought both of these, or if not that, that they were free with some other subscriptions I was paying for. Well I found both of them. But I was going to have to pay to see them. So maybe I only rented them from the Channels involved in the past and didn't buy them.

 

I agree the few episodes of the 1st season of Black List that I saw were excellent. I also like Blue Bloods and NCIS.

 

Gman

[Andy2]

I grew up in the TV Generation and watched a lot of network TV when I was young, and then a fair amount of cable TV.

 

In recent years, I have fallen off the network TV bandwagon: too many "reality" shows, better dramas (like Mad Men and Sopranos and Breaking Bad) on cable, better comedies (like VEEP) on cable, better series (like Downton Abbey) on PBS, etc.

 

Even the network news programs, which I enjoyed for decades, are too fluffy. Comedy Central was a better source of news (for me) than the networks in the last five years.

[+ Gar1eth]

I grew up in the TV Generation and watched a lot of network TV when I was young, and then a fair amount of cable TV.

 

In recent years, I have fallen off the network TV bandwagon: too many "reality" shows, better dramas (like Mad Men and Sopranos and Breaking Bad) on cable, better comedies (like VEEP) on cable, better series (like Downton Abbey) on PBS, etc.

 

Even the network news programs, which I enjoyed for decades, are too fluffy. Comedy Central was a better source of news (for me) than the networks in the last five years.

 

I've seen a few Veep. But it just doesn't hit my funny bone so far. And I really like Julia. I liked her last show-New Adventures Of Old Christine. Yes, it was a traditional sitcom. But I like some of them. I'm just not fond of Modern Family.

 

Gman

[TruthBTold]

I think that it is hard to keep series fresh and (if a comedy) funny past the third season. If it is a hit the producers are afraid to change the characters in any way. For me Curb Your Enthusiasm and Weeds were new and hysterically funny when they came out, however, after three or four seasons they began to suffer slow deaths. I have found that Veep took a season to hit its stride but I think it might suffer the same fate. Of course, it depends on what kind of humor a person enjoys. Silicon Valley is just a different type of comedy than Modern Family.