{"id":3873,"date":"2014-05-22T17:19:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2014-05-22T17:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:19:39","slug":"modern-family-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/modern-family-season-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Family (season 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Two things I bring to every open house, my lucky pen and a smile. I haven&#8217;t sold a house all month. Do you see me saying &#8216;I\u2019m done&#8217;? Never. Because there is no &#8216;done&#8217; in Dunphy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cam and Mitchell decide to get married &#8212; Cam starts planning an absurdly elaborate wedding. Manny and Luke start high school &#8212; Gloria and Phil have a tough time letting them go. Claire starts work at Jay&#8217;s company, and Gloria refuses to admit that she needs glasses. Lily is worried about her cat when it&#8217;s gone for a few days, Cam becomes a football coach, and Gloria hires a nanny who happens to be a man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Modern Family<\/strong> season 5 just ended.<\/p>\n<p>As with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/modern-family-season-4\/\">season 4<\/a> and all that came before, the show continues to be screamingly funny.<\/p>\n<p>Now that she&#8217;s older and has more lines, Lily &#8212; Cam and Mitchell&#8217;s adopted daughter &#8212; is a bigger part of the show. She can usually be counted on for a sarcastic comment.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few episodes that weren&#8217;t quite perfect &#8212; in which the characters felt like more like caricatures. But they managed to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Lane (<strong>The Birdcage<\/strong>) makes a welcome return as Cam and Mitchell&#8217;s friend Pepper &#8212; Cam and Mitchell ask him to plan their wedding. Fred Willard (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/the-magic-of-belle-isle\/\"><strong>The Magic of Belle Isle<\/strong><\/a>) returns as Frank, Phil&#8217;s dad, who&#8217;s not sure he wants a new\u00a0relationship after losing his wife. Peri Gilpin (the TV show <strong>Frasier<\/strong>), Jessie Eisenberg (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/now-you-see-me\/\"><strong>Now You See Me<\/strong><\/a>), and John Benjamin Hickey (the TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/the-big-c-season-3\/\"><strong>The Big C<\/strong><\/a>) also drop by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Two things I bring to every open house, my lucky pen and a smile. I haven&#8217;t sold a house all month. Do you see me saying &#8216;I\u2019m done&#8217;? Never. Because there is no &#8216;done&#8217; in Dunphy.&#8221; Cam and Mitchell decide to get married &#8212; Cam starts planning an absurdly elaborate wedding. Manny and Luke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16,5,11],"class_list":["post-3873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-comedy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5056,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions\/5056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}