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While “Modern Family” seems to be reliably hilarious viewing overall, some fans feel that Alex Dunphy is a letdown as a character who is unfailingly irritating and stays that way start to finish. Adding their voice to complain about her on the subreddit noted above, series’ fan u/MysteryisMyAllure contrasts sibling Haley Dunphy’s in-series development to Alex’s lack of progression, saying, “Unlike Haley, Alex have [sic] no growth.”
Others also reacted negatively to Alex’s role as a static character who is super-smart but also uber-annoying. From her condescension toward her entire family to the way she views her own academic superiority as the end-all and be-all of life, Alex’s unchanging behavior just rubbed a lot of fans the wrong way.
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For Redditor u/Funnysox69, the series missed an opportunity to correct this situation and flesh-out Alex’s character with a more meaningful backstory, writing, “The biggest botch up in modern family is not delving deeper into Alex’s life and why she is the way she is.” So, while other more relatable, multi-dimensional characters on the show may have kept fans tuning in, Alex Dunphy’s singularly shallow depiction as a bothersome brainiac appears to rank as a creative low point for quite a few “Modern Family” viewers.
