The Middleman 1x01 (HDTV-FQM)

a struggling artist is recruited by a secret agency to fight against evil
forces. based on the graphic novels by javier grillo-marxuach and les
mcclaine.

is this any good? or low budget stuff? and bad story line?

you could just download and find out for yourself.

now why wouldn't i do that ha!

it was decent. very dry humor but if you go back an watch it again it starts to
grow on you 🙂

this show is on abc family, it must be fucking awful.

apparently this is based off a comic book series called
"the middleman" written by javier grillo-marxuach a writer on "lost"
published by viper comics

the dialog was decent and the back-and-forth nature of the banter was like
watching the gilmore girls if they were comic book fans who had to save the
world on a weekly basis, so a+ there.

the execution wasn't great though, and the abc family budget which works for
kyle xy (as long as nothing too amazing ever happens) shows in a series that's
supposed to be larger than life and contain wonders defying the normal
perception of reality from week to week so c- there.

all in all. solid b to b-

i'll keep watching for now.


"don't expect shakespeare folks, he's been dead for a while now!"

larrybowa said "this show is on abc family, it must be fucking awful."

...'cept that abc family has quietly garnered itself a reputation as the hbo of
teenage and family drama with some seriously high quality writing going on, and
some shows with more depth than most "serious" channels...

kyle xy
greek
etc

that's really stupid... why waste 40 minutes watching that if it's not worth
it... instead of asking people?

i wouldn't call it stupid, the original question is subjective. he doesn't
know the person who's answering so even if someone says it stinks stay away it
might not be what he thinks of it.

if someone really doesn't have the time to spend 40 minutes figuring out if
they like a tv show then perhaps they are too busy to be watching tv in the
first place.

personally i thought it was ok. nothing great, wouldn't care too much if it
never made it to air but i will check it out when it does air as it could be
interesting.

well i believe you are stupid for being such a dumb sheep...

because a couple people will tell you that it is good or bad doesn't mean you
would think so...

get your own opinion for christ sake

very campy show, of course it makes no attempt to pretend it's anything but.
kinda reminds me of mindless dramas such as cleopatra 2125 or she spies. the
original doctor who's were campy as well, let alone what russell t. davies has
done with the 2005 series. wish some of the characters were developed more,
such as the android secretary. too much emphasis was placed on the banter
between the two lead characters.

while i can see why forming your own opinion about the show is important i kinda
like the back and forth asking for the opinions of others can create. i was
planning to try the show out anyway, but still was interested in seeing what
some others thought, for instance i liked technolocke's and wesconi's well
thought out reviews. plus let's face it, if there were dozens of replies along
the lines of "for the love of god don't watch, save yourself" that would be
rather helpful, wouldn't it 😉

just the introduction scene is worth gold, if you ever liked films like attack
of the killer tomatoes, little shop of horrors and tremors mixed with a little
mars attacks technology this will rub you the right way.

go back to boring phillies baseball.

you obviously haven't watched anything on abc family.

greek is excellent... kyle xy is cool too.

i can't wait to watch this new one later today.