The Middleman

There's a new show on ABC Family entitled The Middleman which is bloody brilliant! It makes fun of every scifi and sitcom out there in a way that's seriously not expected of ABC let alone ABC Family.

I watch the ironic, the cheesey and the embarassing when it comes to TV. There are a few TV shows which I recommend including Heroes, Weeds & Chuck, however, the one that has gone unmentioned from pop culture is The Middleman which America's pop culture has left un-named.

I'm amazed by the ability to make me rewind because I missed a single line of dialogue. There are many movies and tv shows out there that make me happy (ie August Rush which made me smile like a silly woman reading LOLCats) and even a few other ABC Family shows that should be deemed craptastic that I still deem worth of a slot in my TiVo recording, however this one is actually good. No seriously, I may giggle madly at post on icanhascheezburber.com but this is better because it seriously makes fun of both hour long soap operas, scifi geeky comedies and punaliciousness all at once.

It subtitles locations in a way that would normally be deemed cheesy and trying too hard, but in context makes so much sense. The puns are punalicious (quoting from the Seattle-ite on Project Runway - yes I'm admitting to my bad tv watching habits); the pop culture references are sublime; and the jokes don't try to hide themselves behind intelligence. They're just funny - they don't disguise the humanity, hillarity or geekiness behinde it. I guess the main thing going for this show is the unexpected embrace for geek-ity along with reasonably good puns and the fact that who the hell watches ABC Family???

I actually recommend it... SERIOUSLY!