EPISODE
SEASON
The Middle - Season 1
The Hecks find themselves embroiled in somewhat unusual events as they attempt to navigate their day-to-day lives. However, they use a sense of humor to try to steer their family through life's ups and downs.
19 May 1982, Los Angeles County, California, USA
21 March 1981, Cleveland, Mississippi, USA
16 September 1991, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA
25 May 1989, Wisconsin, USA
22 July 1988, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 June 1967, Maryland, USA
22 October 1946, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
22 August 1966, USA
October 08, 2009
"The Middle" resides somewhere in the nondescript middle of the pack of new fall comedies.
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
A funny, fast-moving celebration of harried family life in middle America.
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
It may improve as it finds its feet, but at the moment, it's a very middling kind of deal.
October 08, 2009
The characters feel like more contrived versions of other characters we've been meeting in sitcoms for years.
October 08, 2009
It's just a semi-traditional family comedy (no laugh track, but some obligatory warmth).
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.
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.
October 08, 2009
Not a single line here feels like a dead ball. The characters, too, arrive fully formed and believable.
