After 11 seasons, the once mega-popular ABC sitcom says goodbye to a very different America than the one in which it premiered.
Judged from the comparatively enlightened lens of 2020, it also doesn’t look so brazen in its depiction of queerness or unconventional family structures. The gay couple, uptight Mitch and flamboyant Cam , rarely displayed physical affection. The women were introduced as stay-at-home moms slotted into clichéd gender roles, which the show waited until Season 5 to rectify, giving the neurotic Claire a job at her father’s successful closet-building company.
By the time the older kids had graduated high school, the show struggled to position them within the real world and concoct plots that involved anything resembling substantial character development. Furthermore, the series somehow never seemed to realize how much it trafficked in humor that could be described as casually incest-y. At one point, I was determined to go back and catalog every incest-adjacent joke or subplot, but it was too daunting an undertaking for any sane human.
I watched the series religiously, sometimes rolling my eyes as often as I chuckled. Gender hiccups aside, the first four seasons are as funny as anything else that’s premiered in the last 20 years . Today, those episodes play like relics of the broadcast-sitcom era. For that reason, the series’ relative quaintness can be comforting.
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