"Someone Who Watches Lily" is the 20th episode of the American comedy television series, Modern Family second season and the 44th episode in its entirety. It was originally aired on April 20, 2011. The episode was written by Bill Wrubel and directed by Michael Spiller.
In the episode, Mitchell and Cameron are looking to give legal guardians to Lily in whatever happens to them, and quietly assess their family members. But nobody blew their socks, because they watched Jay give Manny a hard dose of love, Claire secretly took Luke to a child psychologist to assess his progress, and Haley and Alex got into some naughty activity at school.
"Someone Who Watches Lily" generally receives positive reviews from critics. This episode was seen by 9.83 million households and received a 3.8 rating/10% stake among adults between the ages of 18 and 49, making it the season's lowest episode by tying "Mother Tucker".
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Plot
Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) seek legal guardians for Lily if they both die, and secretly assess their family members. After rejecting Claire's (Julie Bowen) and Phil (Ty Burrell) options to be the guys, Mitchell tried to convince Cameron that Jay (Ed O'Neill) and Gloria (Sofa Vergara) could be the perfect guardian while Cameron said that his family could be Lily's guardian, something Mitchell rejected as the reason that Cam's family was far from anything Lily knew.
Jay takes Manny (Rico Rodriguez) to the store and Mitch and Cam go with them. While they talk about who could be Lily's guardian, they watched Jay give Manny a hard dose of love. Meanwhile Gloria invites Lily for a walk and she stabs her ear. When everyone returns home and sees it, the discussion about Jay and Gloria becomes the perfect guardian appears again.
Meanwhile, Claire secretly brings Luke (Nolan Gould) to a child psychologist to assess her progress because she is worried about her. Phil knew about it and he had Claire's surprise. After the session ended, Claire and Phil had a fight about something Claire had told a psychologist; that she was afraid Luke would turn into Phil. While they were fighting, they got into their car to return home, leaving Luke behind. Back home, as they speak, they realize that they leave Luke and they panic. On their way to go and find him, someone took Luke back home. Listening to his story and how he managed to find someone to take him home, Claire said that she is a wonderful child and she need not worry.
Haley (Sarah Hyland), Alex (Ariel Winter) and Haley's friend Gabby (Rachael Marie) get into trouble at school. They broke into it and a security officer arrested them for vandalism.
At the end of the episode, Mitch and Cam want to make a big announcement about who will become Lily's guardian. Mitch is ready to say that they will be Claire and Phil but Cameron, after a discussion he did with Manny about Jay, interrupts him and says that Jay and Gloria will be the ones. It made Gloria very happy. Claire on the other hand is unhappy with the decision and she tries to ask why they did not vote for him and Phil because they raised three kids with amazing. While saying that, Phil tells him that they should leave because their daughter has ruined the school.
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Production
"Somebody to Watch Out Lily" was written by co-executive producer Bill Wrubel, writing six credits for the series. This episode was also directed by Michael Spiller, who directed the thirteen series for this series. This episode was filmed between January 17 and January 21, 2011.
Reception
Ratings
In the original American broadcast, "Somebody Overseeing Over Lily" was seen by approximately 9.83 million households and received a 3.8 rating/10% share amongst adults between the ages of 18 and 49 years. This means that it is seen by 3.7% of all ages 18 to 49 years, and 10% of all children aged 18 to 49 watch television on broadcast. This made it the lowest episode of the second season, with "Mother Tucker". It also marked a slight downgrade from the previous episode, "The Musical Man". Nevertheless, this episode became bound to become the highest rated program among 18-49 viewers. This episode is tied with Glee ' s "A Night of Neglect".
Reviews
This episode received most of the positive reviews from critics.
The A.V. Club 'Donna Bowman wrote positively from this episode, praising the use of "conventional plots" and adding "professionalism, keen eyes, good times, and an approach that rediscovers the excitement in this standard situation." He also called it an increase of "The Musical Man" and finally gave this episode A-. TV coach Joel Keller called the episode "mediocre," writing that it did not reach its potential to be "one of the top episodes of the year." Nonetheless, he said the episode was "still very good". Alan Sepinwall from HitFix , who has been having serious problems with the second season of the show and moving the series from his "commentary on every episode" of rotation, gave the episode a positive review. He called it "an ambitious episode, but no one ever felt saturated." He finally called it the best episode since "Manny Get Your Gun".
New York Writer Rachael Maddux praised the writing and paced the episode, saying it was "in the running for the best of the season". He also praised the writing of character development that featured the development of most characters "than perhaps the other single episodes throughout the series so far."
Lesley Savage of Entertainment Weekly praised the Dunphy family plot, remarking, "Their madness [...] drove me all through the entire episode."
References
External links
- "Someone Watches Lily" in IMDb
- "Someone Watches Lily" on TV.com
- "Someone Watches Lily" on ABC.com
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