Modern Family season 4

The fourth season of the American television sitcom Modern Family aired on ABC from September 26, 2012 to May 22, 2013.
This season was ordered on May 10, 2012. The season was produced by Lloyd-Levitan Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television, with series creators Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd serving as showrunners.

Production

The fourth season of the show was produced by Lloyd-Levitan Productions in association with 20th Century Fox Television and airs on the American Broadcasting Company. Modern Family is produced by co-creators Christopher Lloyd and Steven Levitan who serve as executive producers and show runners with Bill Wrubel as co-executive producer.

Cast

Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett
Sofía Vergara as Gloria Pritchett
Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett
Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker
Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy
Ariel Winter as Alex Dunphy
Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy
Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado
Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily Tucker-Pritchett

Modern Family employs an ensemble cast. The series is set in Los Angeles and focuses on the family lives of Jay Pritchett, his daughter Claire Dunphy, and his son Mitchell Pritchett. Claire is a homemaker mom married to Phil Dunphy ; they have three children, Haley, the typical teenager, Alex, the smart middle child and Luke, the offbeat only son. Jay is married to a much younger Colombian woman, Gloria, and is helping her raise her teen son, Manny. Mitchell and his partner Cameron Tucker have adopted a Vietnamese baby, Lily. The kids are only required to appear in 22 episodes.

Episodes

Reception

The fourth season of Modern Family was met with mixed reviews. Willa Paskin of Salon gave the season a negative review, writing, "As Modern Family has gotten older, its characters, and their dynamics, have settled into grooves, some more discordant than others." Halfway through the season, Rachel Stein of Television Without Pity wrote, "much as I liked the pairings and some of the dialogue, is just another contrived episode of Modern Family we can cite when we talk later about how a different show should have won the 2013 Emmy for Best Comedy."
On the other hand, Robert Bianco of USA Today gave the season a positive review, calling it "TV's most appreciated great comedy." In addition, The A.V. Club was often complimentary towards the season. All 24 episodes were reviewed, with "A−" and "B" as the most common letter grades assigned to a given one. Donna Bowman, reviewing "Goodnight Gracie," wrote that there were "few comedies on television more satisfying" when the season was at its best.
Some of the more well-received episodes include "Schooled," "Yard Sale," "Diamond in the Rough," and "Goodnight Gracie".

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards

The fourth season received twelve nominations at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in total, including its fourth consecutive nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series. The ceremony for the Primetime Awards was aired on September 22, 2013, on CBS. The Primetime Creative Arts Awards took place on September 15, 2013.

Home Media release

The Fourth season of Modern Family was released on DVD and Blu-ray both in a three-disc set on September 24, 2013. The box-set contains all 24 episodes plus the extended director's cut version of the season finale, commentaries from the writers of the show on several episodes, deleted and alternate scenes, a blooper reel and more. This was the final season of the series that had a Blu-ray release, as all of the subsequent seasons were released on DVD and Digital HD only.