Lake Life

"Modern Family" seem to be suffering last season. It seem to have no central focus. It looked like Cameron Sister was joining the show but at the Premiere Episode she is not only not there but she is not even mentioned.

I have to admit that the cast still works well together which explains why it was still nominated last year fora an Emmy Award for Best Comedy where the reality was it should not have been.

The Premiere Episode has the family on a Houseboat in Lake Tahoe. They are there to enjoy the eclipse. As with any family people argue and feelings get there feeling hurt. The only story that did not work for me last night was the "Manny" episode. It wasn't funny. That story was just "WEAK".

Mitch story was funny and typical Mitch. The best story was Claire and Phil. Both now well into their forties. When they are handed a brochure about things to do they realized that they were given one that "OLD PEOPLE" get. This freaks them out and laughs begin.

I always feel a longing for more at the end of each season. When it came back i felt very ecstatic and my expectations were met with an equally amazing season premiere. Definitely one of my favorite episodes and worthy of a 10 rating. Keep rocking MF... :)

A good episode.

I just want to say that this was a pretty good episode definitely for season 9 or for the start of season 9.

Lake life:

When Jay moves everyone to the lake(lake house) he seems pretty sure of himself when everyone seems fine or so it seems.

When Claire and Phil decide that there an old couple(from a brochure) they seem to try and feel more like there younger easier said than done especially since Phil can't seem to go in the water.

Then you have Mitchell and Cameron who after the doctor Cameron finds out he can't go in the sun what a shock what's even more shocking is Mitchell finds out a boy he almost hooked up with is at the bait shop near by what luck!

Then the story gets weirder when a couple of jet skiers ask Haley Alex Luke and Manny to hangout what are the odds of that?

While on the boat Alex feels she needs "alone time" from Ben so when Ben helps Lily out he passes out so she pushes him to sea bon voyage Ben!

Mitchell finally gets the courage or what Jay says "face embarrassment" to confront his long awaited fear and turns out it wasn't a fear at all but there was a lot of embarrassing stuff that occurred.

Then the story gets mellow when they all get together and sing a song Happy ending.

I guess there's only one thing left to say Where's Ben?

This is a fabulous episode and great start to the new season. There are a couple of weak storylines, but Cam alone steals the show. We didn't stop laughing 😂

... this show is starting to become too predictable. My wife and I called almost everything that happened; Mitch's first kiss actually being gay, Ben being left on the island, Gloria falling out of the boat, and Phil moving at the last second when Claire was going to push him off the cliff and falling.

Season 8 had a lot of heart, but season 7 turned silly and went from the family acting somewhat believable to being slapstick. I feel like season 9 kicked off trying to do both, but the heart was meh, and the slapstick was predictable.

I also had issues with how Mitch reacted to finding out the guy he kissed his 13-yr old summer was gay at the time. We got a little insight into his character when he says he didn't try and kiss a boy for 5-yrs after that, and how it led him to be attracted to more flamboyant men, but the writers went for the easy gag of Mitch freaking out that the guy didn't think he was attractive. It was a missed opportunity for Mitch to stick up for himself and say "I'll have you know what you said made me think you were straight and prevented me from being open with my feelings for fear of being embarrassed again for 5-yrs" or something like that.

I also think Hayley (and more so Sarah) lost about 5 years of age with how she was costumed, and with her longer hair. She looked like a young adult last season w/ her short hair, but like a high school kid last night. I think they need to move her out of the house and introduce new characters and a new setting. It was too good to be true to have her be w/ Andy, so maybe bring it back.

I love the show, but it needs to do a better job growing up w/ the cast post school-aged children, and not rely so much on ridiculous plot set-ups.