A Note On The Modern Family Gay Kiss

Gabe — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:30:54 +0000

On last night’s episode of Modern Family, the gay couple, Mitchell and Cameron had a very brief and understated homosexual kiss. THAT’S RIGHT. Two dudes kissed each other ON TELEVISION. The issue of Mitchell and Cameron’s sexless relationship was a hotbed of blogtroversy last season because people were outraged that a gay couple would be shown to live together and be raising a child together and yet never engage in any kind of outward affection. Fair enough! That’s a totally reasonable thing to be kind of bothered by! The furor was pretty short lived as hints of “the kiss episode” started appearing as early as last May. And now it is here and people are working very hard to figure out what it all MEANS.

The truth is, it probably doesn’t mean that much, and it probably shouldn’t mean that much?

Modern Family: A Poor Man’s (Attempt At) Arrested Development?

Gabe — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:44:07 +0000

Modern Family is one of the most hyped new shows this fall. Did you watch last night’s premiere? The show follows three tiers of a (modern) family. There’s the middle-class long-married parents of three incipient-teenage children. There’s the grumpy patriarch who has remarried a much-younger, “fiery” hispanic woman. And there is the gay son (of the patriarch, brother of the mom) and his gay partner, who have just adopted a baby from Thailand. The cast is decent. The whole thing is filmed in the overused mockumentary style of our time, but the mockumentary style is overused because it works pretty well. The show seems to have pretty much everything it needs to be a great show.

So why isn’t it?

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A Note On The Modern Family Gay Kiss

Modern Family: A Poor Man’s (Attempt At) Arrested Development?