The Middle

[Younger Brother]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 3:00pm

I just started watching this show and I have to say, I find it hilarious! How have I not heard about this show before? What does everybody else think?

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 3:30pm

I can't stand Patricia Heaton.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 3:36pm

I too cannot stand Patricia Heaton but find the show a delight. Perhaps it's the amazing, delightful Eden Sher who counter balancves the old bag so well?
12 years surrounded by Hollywood Peen- an essay

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 3:47pm

I can't stand her, either. I wonder if the show can't, too, and that's why they've chosen to give her the most unflattering hairstyle imaginable on it.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 3:51pm

So many funny moments and every week I identify with the dysfunction!

[madbrian]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 3:54pm

I find it unfunny and unwatchable. Heaton seems to still be playing Debra Barone, but it's not as funny when she's not surrounded by the talent in Everybody Loves Raymond.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 4:08pm

I'll catch it every now and then, but I don't find it good enough to make me a regular watcher or add it to my Hulu queue.

I'm with the others who find Patricia Heaton a bit much to try to stomach, both her character and her actual self. I also feel really sorry for the kid playing the youngest son. I don't know if he's putting on a character voice or it's just puberty wreaking havoc with him (or a combination of the two), but I find him even harder to listen to than Patricia Heaton.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 4:23pm

The REAL unsung hero of ABC Wednesday night is The Neighbors. That show is awesome.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 4:27pm

^Agreed!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 4:45pm

Yay! I am winning America over one viewer at a time.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 5:48pm

My son thinks it's funny. Patricia Heaton is annoying but overall I think the show is pretty funny. We aren't regular watchers either though.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 5:49pm

I'm glad to see a universal disdain for Patricia Heaton.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 7:20pm

I wish Heaton's political views were different, but I think THE MIDDLE is a critically neglected gem.

The poster who implied that Eden Sher is the heart of the show got it exactly right. "Sue's" irrepressible optimism is hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time.

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[StockardFan]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 8:39pm

My son was imitating Brick earlier tonight.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 8:54pm

I love the kids (ideally, Eden Sher would have an Emmy nomination by now) and Neil Flynn that I tolerate Patricia Heaton. Honestly, if not for a few critics on sites I trusted, I would have ignored the show but they were persistent that the show was solid. Indeed. I also like that there is this retro-90s, Carsey-Werner sitcoms class element to the show.

And I think the kid who plays Brick does have some disorder that has him at a short stature.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 9:08pm

I requested The Middle on the dvd player during my most recent abortion.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 10:58pm

It's not even that it's just because her political views are abhorrent, or because she was on that show whose appeal had always mystified me, it's because she just seems like such a goddamn smug prig.

Also, I thought I remembered what she tweeted to Sandra Fluke being c*ntier, but now I don't know. But in looking for that tweet, I find a page with a bunch of her other dumb tweets.


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[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 11:09pm

She is awful. AWFUL. And her screen persona seems NO different than her real life things.

But that Eden Sher is NOTHING like the part she plays. I saw a 30 second soundbite of her and was like Wha????? Ladies and gentlemen, ACTING!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 11:15pm

Peppermint Pattycakes Heaton was the celebrity prez of an anti-abortion group with the word "feminist" in its name but apparently didn't think for a second before she tweeted that Sandra Fluke was a slut for arguing in favor of insurance payment for birth control but then when she got push back she realized her tweet wasn't "Christ-like" and removed it and said if she lost her show over the tweet, well, God gave her the show so He could take it away just as easily and she had absolutely no control. As we all know, having absolutely no control over your life is the central tenet of feminism.

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[Jon]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 11:21pm

Thankfully they got rid of creepy Chris Kattan.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 3/7/13 at 11:25pm

I agree that Sue is probably the best part of the show. I don't always watch either.

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 3/11/13 at 9:49pm

I'm a pretty big sitcom buff and have never been particularly fond of Heaton. However, I do seem to like her on this show.

I think that this show is insanely underrated. It's well written and has very likable characters. Plus, it shows us how our lives really are.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 5:12pm

I love this show as I find it so nostalgic in a way, reminding me of my own family. Hell, as she is now, the character of Sue is exactly like most girls I was friends with in school in the 80s. I can't stand Patricia Heaton as a person, but she made a name for herself playing the hapless wife/mother on Raymond and I've always thought she does it brilliantly. She's just continuing to do what she does best.

Eden Sher should be up for an Emmy. This is totally her "Sue-son".

[Unknown User]

Posted: 3/12/13 at 5:45pm

I like that unlike most sitcoms where out of work actors and cater waiters live in huge $5000 a month New York Apartments. The Middle really "gets" what it's like to live on a low-wage job in America now. One of the first episodes I saw had the mom & dad sorting bills "We paid this last month, so we can skip it this month. Send the electric company a check but don't sign it. That usually buys us a few days..."

I love when they "Splurge" and everyone gets a $5 footlong.