Last week's episode of The Middle had 8.04 million viewers and a 2.3 share. Sean Saves The World had 2.58 million viewers and a 0.7 share. The Middle is a hit, Sean is a disaster. I'm more upset about the Michael J Fox Show.
Love the people, but the writing I could not deal with.
This was exactly how I felt. That's too bad that it was finally getting better, but it is way too late for a show to finally pick up. I only watched about three weeks of it, then I gave up. I wanted to like it because of the people involved but just found the writing to be too bad.
As already mentioned, Lennon (who I usually like) was stuck with a character who seemed to exist in some bizarre parallel universe. Seriously, I wouldn't have been surprised if they later explained that he was a Mork-like alien.
I thought everyone was good in the show, I enjoy every single one of the main characters..but even the performances could not help the writing which was really flat.
Of course, I see many idiot comments on various websites that the show was doomed to fail because it was all about a gay dad and this is not acceptable by America..so there is a lot of self-congratulatory chest thumping out there (duh..the Middle, and others) But nope..it was just flat and unfunny.
The Michael J Fox show which follows is not doing much better in the ratings and if NBC could cancel it, they probably would. I think I remember reading that NBC agreed to a contract that would guarantee it would run the entire season without threat of cancellation. Frankly, I find it as flat and humorless as Sean Hayes show. Both should be much better than they are given the talent involved.
