This season has started as such a weird, disorganized mess. In an attempt to keep this show crawling on well beyond its natural conclusion (the original was just two seasons), the writing keeps going into new territory at the expense of creating an understandable world.

He sends his wife (and worst running mate choice ever) to implausibly confront the journalist who has uncovered one of the largest scandals in American history. On live TV. And she makes him look stupid.

That whole NSA/"algorithms" sequence happened, and I was thinking, "Oh, yeah, I guess that happened…"

The insanity is that anyone as aggressively unlikable as these people would have any shot at the presidency. Claire getting picked for the VP slot is mind-bogglingly stupid. The two of them still be anywhere close to competitive in this race is just terrible writing.

The reference to a "house of cards" implies a very unstable, fragile balance. This is anything but. These fucking creeps are bulletproof.

This episode was aggressively stupid, and ai thought they would never top Claire's ascendence to the VP slot.

"I mention this at the top of the review because, for me at least, there’s almost no way to separate Haley’s storyline on Modern Family tonight from today’s multiple revelations about Donald Trump’s history of sexual abuse towards young and underage women."

Alex and Lily just prove that literally everyone on this show is becoming a sociopath. They can't even write vaguely likable characters anymore.

Probably the best episode of the season so far (not exactly saying much, but whatever).

They should work Alex's new-found attractiveness into the long term character arc.

Late last year, and continuing strongly into this year, it became apparent just how much everybody on this show fucking hates one another. Except not in an interesting way. I would actually like it better if there were an open showing of contempt amongst them and they just acknowledged how horribly dysfunctional and…

I'm just surprised that they have run so thin on new ideas that they're digging up old sight gags to work into actual, substantive plot lines.

Well, last night he developed PTSD because he wasn't able to escape a closet - a closet of a family that was obviously going to be returning to their own home at some point (if you buy that he couldn't just removed the latch from the door when the handle fell off… how do the writers of Modern Family think door handles…

They started to get old, and bafflingly traded away the youth as this happened.

At least Kessel should be well rested.

Already a better joke than 90% of what appears on this show.

This episode was actually kind of a fascinating microcosm of its overall failures.

Cam, Claire, and (kinda) Mitchell are reason enough to call the show "Modern Sociopaths".

Hey, a fellow member of the "late to the party" club!

I'm actually a little concerned (at the risk of taking one actress's tweet too literally) that the next season is going to be really heavy on the twists and the unexpected just for the hell of it.