Modern Family Season 6

Modern Family Season 6 is currently streaming on and , and it delivers exactly the kind of comedy that earns a loyal following. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. 3,420 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Watch it for Ed O'Neill — stay for everyone else around them. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Modern Family Season 6 earns its spot. Modern Family Season 6 does what great comedies rarely manage — it is actually funny, consistently, across the whole run. The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in season six of Modern Family. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan. Ed O'Neill and Sofía Vergara lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2014. Modern Family Season 6 earns its laughs from character rather than situation, which is why it does not wear thin the way pure farce tends to. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

Modern Family Season 6 is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. Ed O'Neill's comic timing carries it through its weaker moments. The kind of comedy you recommend to someone who claims they do not watch much.