Guess what? Yours truly has been selected by ABC for an advanced screening of their new show Modern Family. As they wrote to me:
The majority of the TV viewing world won't see it until Wednesday, September 23rd at 9/8c on ABC but you're, well, special.
So really cool about that. Given the amount of TV shows I follow, I am a perfect choice for this :p
so the show is about 3 couples.
- a guy couple that has adopted a child
- a family with a large age difference - Ed ONeil and Sofia Vergara
- and a normal family with 3 kids
so after going through the pilot here is what I think about it:
1. Show has a great cast. at least on paper
2. for some reason the show is not clicking for me, it should but it isn't. given the cast this should be very enticing and just making you want to see more. However it just falls short.
3. Before I started watching the pilot I was watching a run of the Teen Choice awards for 2009 - just fast forwarding mostly, at it was more interesting to watch than this
4. show is like 20-25min and is being advertised as a comedy. I am sorry but I didn't get to laugh a single time. maybe a chuckle here and there but thats all.
Just as a reference, I have seen the pilots of almost every show that is worth watching now and most that are not, in the past 5 years probably before most of the other people - thanks to online piracy and stuff. So my verdict for this show is - unless something dramatically changes I don't see this show going more than 5 episode - unless ABC has ordered 10 or something, but given what the rest of the successful shows have been given - usually 18ep instead of a full season - this would be one of the first things to go when they start cutting stuff.
score: 3/10
