Season 3 - Episode 12
ABC (US)
It's another strong showing from Modern Family this week, with Phil once again heavily at the forefront. The great dynamic that Luke and Manny have is played again, and Claire and Jay's competitiveness comes out again with some pretty great results.
Phil is hosting a real estate seminar and enlists Haley and Gloria to help him out. Unfortunately the two girls go to a salon before the seminar and manage to miss the whole thing. This ends with Phil finally getting angry at Gloria, which makes her realise that they're a proper family. Don't ask, you need to see it, but it is sweet. Claire and Jay push themselves into a competition over Luke and Manny's school projects, which has a surprising little twist, while Alex snarks at them the whole time. The develpoment of Alex from a naive, smart, geeky little girl into a smartarse know it all teenager has been superbly done, subtle yet noticable all the same. As I said last week, young Ariel Winter has all the makings of a star, and it's in no small part down to his performances that the character has progressed so well.
Elsewhere, Cam and Mitchell interview a perspective birth mother for their adoption bid, and manage to do really well, until the very end of teh interview. This plot did unfortunately separate them from the rest of the gang for the entire episode, but was a funny little aside, and as long as they don't drag it out too long, might me a nice addition in the short regular term.
Modern Family seemed to have run out of steam at the start of the third season, but has been in stellar form the past few episodes. I'm glad it's found its feet again, as I'm not ready to ditch this family just yet.
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