Initially extinguishing, "Connection Lost", the 16th episode ofModern familyThe sixth season can look like Apple product location, completely recorded with iPads, iPhones and other Apple cameras as it is.
However, look better and "Connection Lost" reveals itself as an example for a show that takes opportunities, even in the sixth season, when many other series rest on their laurels.The appearance of people chatting on a computer screen cameramen real iPhones, and the actors kept the camerpols in their hands and borrowed the entire affair a selfie mood.
But the script of the episod was also a knockout."Lost" pulled it out.
Is stuck at the airport
"Connection Lost" is framed in Claire Dunphys (Julie Bowen) MacBook awaiting on board a flight.clairehoedelFlight.It is no wonder she is trying to solve things with her daughter, Haley (Sarah Hyland), before she leaves her four -hour air.
She then opens Facetime to call Man, Phil (Ty Burrell), who, despite his absorption in the video gameglory, his wife assures that he takes care of the house in her absence.Phil ultimately has no idea where Haley is, so the second daughter of Claire Facetime, Alex (Ariel Winter), who is just a few meters away from her unsuspecting father.When nobody can discover Haley, Claire decides that the only logical explanation is that she ran to Vegas with Joe's Nanny to get married.
And by and on the episode: to call some characters, holding on to others, leaving Facebook, shopping for a late birthday present.Noah, that takes place entirely on the computer screen of a teenager.Look at this.))
Yet "Connection Lost" finds its own ridiculous rhythms.now .
Dead pan on a computer screen
Modern familyIs always built around Deadpan, the dry joke, take to the camera.
Like itOffice,,Modern familyIncluded as a mockumentary, so that the characters can break the fourth wall.Modern familyHis mature enough to find ways to keep this feeling fresh.
The question about this episode is that the show is fun without the Deadpan
The solution for this was to experiment with how you can tell a joke.Textual.
For example: Claire calls Brother Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) to wish him a late birthday.Exit works in the same way as a Smash Cut to Claire that offers a roof to the camera.
If the actors do not go a deadpan in the same way,Camera'sIt is actually.The help with success with the joke,Modern familyCameras that traditionally zoom in on the actors, just like they deliver punchline.
One of the most impressive, but probably underrated elements for the episode is the careful level of character development that is involved in half an hour.Easy than creating a task list or Facebook page for that character.
We all know what Claire sounds when she speaks, but it was important for her text messagesmetJust as credible or for the Facebook profile of Haley, a "Haley Facebook profile image" or for Alex's College Admission Essay seems to look like something that would have written the overwhelming high school.
Experiment with form and p*rn?
Modern familyherexperimentedWith the format rather - which makes sense, the show is always about resuming institutions without losing the heart of these settings.The that makes the show what it is.
Despite the new presentation, "Connection Lost" was in a certain sense in a sense as usual:How can we love the best skills in a modern world of our families?This is an idea that "connection is lost" repeatedly.
At one point, while trying to prevent her daughter's essay from reading, Claire lets her eyes wander to the most welcome distraction she can find: a browser tab marked with "p*rn".
But this is Claire, so p*rn is super clean - literally.Form - The connection she can lose when her daughter goes to university.
At first glance, "Connection Lost" seems like a strange name for an episode in which literally all is connected to WiFi, only separated with a quick click on the finger. Secondly.Phil and Alex can be in the same house as Haley and not even know.
Digital connection is not at all the same as human intimacy.In p*rn, sex, a deeply intimate action, becomes performance.: Do you really associate with the people you are connected to?
If you go on it immediately, this entire episode is a big distraction for Claire.Alex sends his mother various designs throughout his race.The final version looks great!
We can only imagine the complacent smile that glows on Alex's face when she sees the message and reminds us of the words she talks in the essay:
Nietzsche believed that most cultures exist exclusive to distract us from the truth.Expansion as a scholar, student and person.No attitude, but dedicated and prestigious, can teach a desire for improvement where nobody exists and I know you don't read this, Mom.
