EPISODE
SEASON
The Middle - Season 1
Following the struggles and adventures of Frankie, a middle aged married woman, who lives with her wacky family and struggles against coping with their life in the small town of Orson, Indian, where her children are raised and grow older, the thing that brings terrible for her, as they are always bring challenges for her. Brick has trouble in dealing his teacher with bad results.
29 June 1968, Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA
5 December 1983, New Hampshire, USA
14 January 1968, Orange County, California, USA
10 August 1954, Forest Hills, Queens, New York, USA
1954, Helena, Montana, USA
17 July 1995
12 December 1991, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 January 2000, Texas, USA
1974, Muskegon, Michigan, USA
October 08, 2009
The Middle could be 200% better than it is right now if it got rid of the voiceover, which doesn't provide any extra information about the plot or characters and is neither witty nor whimsical.
October 08, 2009
The single-camera pilot is neither distinctive nor consistently funny enough to stand apart from the ranks of TV's great unwashed.
September 17, 2013
The Middle wasn't tremendously funny, but the family dynamic felt like a healthy mixture of real and sitcom-y, all with a big dose of heart at the end.
September 17, 2013
It may improve as it finds its feet, but at the moment, it's a very middling kind of deal.
October 08, 2009
It has the potential to blossom into a sweet if small celebration of a family of oddballs living distinctly unhip lives.
October 08, 2009
"The Middle" resides somewhere in the nondescript middle of the pack of new fall comedies.
October 08, 2009
A funny, fast-moving celebration of harried family life in middle America.
October 08, 2009
It's just a semi-traditional family comedy (no laugh track, but some obligatory warmth).
October 08, 2009
The characters feel like more contrived versions of other characters we've been meeting in sitcoms for years.
October 08, 2009
Not a single line here feels like a dead ball. The characters, too, arrive fully formed and believable.