A milk-drinking, antiquated euphemism-slinging, gentleman hero from the silver age of “The city is in peril, Robin! Gee golly wiz, let’s save it!” school of comics. She’s on the phone with her mother, answering delightfully personal questions in between fielding work calls when a giant, tentacled lady monster bursts forward from the lab and threatens to destroy anything in its path (including our intrepid heroine, Dub-Dub).Įnter, The Middleman. The first episode shows Wendy Watson, aka Dub-Dub or Dubby, playing receptionist at a genetics research lab (not as impressive as it sounds) in her latest role as temp. It starts off with incredible cheese – and, to Ana’s point, terrible special effects. Thea: Do you ever have those moments when you’re watching a show or a movie, and you think think to yourself, what the hell am I watching? Such was my experience with The Middleman. From episode titles (“”The Boy Band Superfan Interrogation” or “The Vampiric Puppet Lamentation”) to repeated internal jokes (“My plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity”) from lovable recurring secondary characters (Ida and Noser to name a few) to the sheer amount of geeky quotes (omg the zombie episode! And the vampire episode!), this show was a pure delight from start to finish. This is fantastically fun in the most genuine, earnest way possible. If I had to describe The Middleman to someone I would go with a “The Middleman is a geeky love letter to SciFi with fabulous female characters and SUPERHEROES SPIES, terrible special effects and a lot of quotable lines.”īut what in fact is the actual Middleman? Well, the Middleman is someone who solves problems of the supernatural variety and this show concerns itself (mostly) with Middleman in-training, Wendy Watson. Which is totally fine and cool, the terrible special effects in The Middleman is actually one of the things I found to be most endearing about it. Unless by “special effects” you actually mean “made in your backyard”. Apart from the “special effects laden part”. I feel like they TOTALLY 100% lived-up to their dream. …an over-the-top, sixteen-car-pileup-sugar-popped-cereal-bowl of a series that’s not afraid to be everything your mother warned you about television: a cartoonishly extreme, randomly fantastic, special-effects laden, three-fisted walking-and-talking toy-line advertisement of an action-adventure-sci-fi comic book in which the fabric of reality barely survives in the end, and the journey invariably reveals a completely surreal strangeness behind everything we hold to be true. With Matt Keeslar, Natalie Morales, Mary Pat Gleason and Brit MorganĪna: According to TV Tropes this was the original pitch for The Middleman: She made it sound super fun, and with all episodes available on Youtube, we decided to give it a go for our inaugural Old School Wednesdays Watchalong!Ĭreated by Javier Grillo-Marxuach and Les McClaine We never heard of it – even though the show was created by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, one of Lost’s writers – until very recently when having lunch with a friend who is a huge fan of the show. The Middleman was a short-lived TV show with 12 episodes that aired in 2008 on ABC Family and which has sparked a cult following since then. In which we take a break from the books, and dive into a television show for Old School Wednesday’s March event…
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