Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticIn recent years, class has been the great unspoken element of TV family comedies.The genre that gave us the Bundys, the Conners and the Simpsons — all families who were whose neighborhoods lay an unbridgeable distance from great wealth — had moved, in the past decade, onto “Modern Family’s” Pritchetts and “Black-ish’s” Johnsons.
These families, the standard-bearers for the family sitcom in the 2010s, had enough concerns to fuel multiseason runs, but money rarely seemed to be one.
This left on the table one of the major stories of American family life in an age of increasing precarity, and also created a strange sort of airless feeling.
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