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The Middle

Comedy

Created by Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline

The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana. From TMDB

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The Middle is a 2009 comedy TV series, created by Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, starring Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn and Charlie McDermott.

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The Middle received mostly positive reviews from critics, citing its unique and original characters, and praising the show's consistent standard and realistic portrayal of lower-middle-class families. On the review aggregator website Washington Post, 76% of 21 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.1/10 than negative.The website's consensus reads: "The Middle is a smart and engaging sitcom, able to exaggerate everyday situations to great comedic effect." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 70 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews. Critics also praised the show's timing, writing, and acting; e.g.,…

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  • Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    I'm not enjoying the reboot of the "Unprovoked War in the Middle East" reality TV show. It's just as pointless, but the actors are even stupider. And, frankly, I didn't think that would be possible.

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  • Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 17, 2025

    "You know which country does have nukes? Israel...We should talk about Israel's nuclear weapons, which actually incentivize others in the region...to think about nukes of their own. I'd rather not have more nukes in the Middle East with anyone." Me with Piers. Full show: youtu.be/TlmgGGENVXE?...

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  • Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.coBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ revival series is now filming 🎬 Coming soon to Disney+

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  • Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    The Spanish PM: "The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket" In other news Starmer is in the Middle East today.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    First look at the ‘MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE’ revival series. Coming soon to Disney+

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  • The New York Times @nytimes.comBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    One of America’s wackiest families is making a comeback. “Malcolm in the Middle,” the hit television show from the early 2000s, will get a revival on Disney+ with four new episodes.

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  • Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2026

    The next 20 years of US history is going to be an endless series of 59-day wars with Iran. Veteran talking in 2032: “Ahh yes, I deployed to the Middle East with the Air Force for Iran War VII through Iran War XXIII.”

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  • Graham Perkins @perki.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    Empire with @davidolusoga.bsky.social is a fascinating series & a must watch. Only disappointment is that it was only 3 episodes not 4 where more on the British rule across the Middle East could’ve been covered. Maybe too contentious? Anyway, riveting & an uncomfortable level of pomposity on show.

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  • Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2025

    A week after world leaders feted an obese drug addict for ‘Peace in the Middle East’ he casually speaks of displacing Palestinians and building condos in Gaza on a Fox News witch’s morning show. Y’all got played hard MSM.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Dec 29, 2025

    First poster for the ‘MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE’ sequel series Releasing April 10 on Hulu.

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · May 17, 2025

    The ‘MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE’ revival series has wrapped filming. Releasing later this year on Disney+

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  • DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.netBluesky · Oct 23, 2025

    Malcolm, Francis and Reese in the ‘MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE’ revival series. Coming soon to Disney+

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  • Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 19, 2026

    The US has issued a series of STEP alerts to countries across the Middle East in recent hours: Israel, Iraq, Lebanon and Oman. And Travel Security alerts: Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain and Oman. Alerts also for Saudi Arabia and Qatar. (Faytuks Network)

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  • BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2026

    this sucks, but also know that Channing Crowder is absolutely going to look at Ryan on the podcast, ignore every warning sign, and yell HOW YOU GET FIRED IN THE MIDDLE OF A SHOW, RC????

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  • Jess @secondaryjess.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    It is 2003. Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show. The dipshit president started a war in the Middle East. Everything is "terrorism". It is 2025. Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show. The dipshit president started a war in the Middle East. Everything is "terrorism".

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  • Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2026

    🇺🇸👀🇮🇷 Exclusive photos obtained by CBS News show extensive damage at multiple U.S. military positions in the Middle East following Iranian missile and drone attacks. The images show destroyed buildings, vehicles and equipment at bases in 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia and 🇰🇼Kuwait.

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  • Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 21, 2025

    Most Spanish words come from Latin, but did you know there are 2 different types? Words inherited from spoken Latin vs. words borrowed from written Latin during the Middle Ages and after. Some words took both routes, creating doublets. Here’s episode 3 of my 10-part doublet series. Next: Italian.

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  • Shinobi602 @shinobi602.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    What a tragic loss. Monolith has been around for 30 years, made classics like No One Lives Forever, FEAR, Condemned, and of course the Middle-Earth series. I have so many great memories from that studio. Thanks for all the good times team 💔😞

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  • Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

    It’s important to remember in this time that the theology of the Left Behind series is fiction. The rapture, unwavering support of modern Israel, war in the Middle East as ushering in the end times. All of it. And it’s allowed to shape international policy.

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  • George Hahn @georgehahn.comBluesky · Apr 12, 2025

    Stuck in the Middle with Jews… more from the continuing series with @jewdygold.bsky.social and surprise guest Bernard Hiller.

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  • NOELREPORTS @noelreports.comBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    Ukraine still faces a shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles, Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat says, partly due to fighting in the Middle East. He said even four ballistic missile interceptions show that partners continue providing Ukraine with support. #Ukraine

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  • The Athletic @theathletic.comBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Tonight, Frankie Muniz hits the track to kick off his full-time racing schedule in a NASCAR national series. The Athletic's Jordan Bianchi spoke with the “Malcolm in the Middle” actor on his Truck Series plans, Dale Earnhardt and much more. From the archives: www.nytimes.com/athletic/588...

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  • Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    Incredible how note-perfect the MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE special is to the original series. They might as well have written it the day after the finale.

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  • Jacob Kaarsbo @jkaarsbo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 24, 2025

    Peacemaking in the Middle East has been turned into a reality TV show! It won’t end well🙈

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  • Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2025

    First image from the 'Malcolm in the Middle' revival series.

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  • Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2024

    Malcolm in the Middle (Series, 2000 - 2006 )

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  • Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2025

    First pic of Malcolm, Francis and Reese in the new Malcolm in the Middle series.

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  • Sean @flyingwalruss.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 24, 2023

    Rangers in the World Series & the US backing genocide in the Middle East, this might be the best day of George Bush’s life.

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  • Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.socialBluesky · May 14, 2026

    Weird direction for the new Malcolm In The Middle series to take, but the writers have earned my trust so we'll see

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  • xiao yun @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 10, 2026

    Thousands join pro-Palestinian marches in several European cities. > London (AFP) – Thousands of people on Saturday joined pro-Palestinian marches in London, Berlin and Dublin calling for an end to Israeli strikes on Gaza, [...]. > Several thousand marchers in London carried placards reading "End the genocide" and "Free Palestine" as they made their way along the route near the British parliament. > >"We are here today to mark three years of the ongoing genocide in Gaza," Aimee Shalan,…

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  • Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 17, 2026

    My favorite of the Middle-earth Quest series. You play as Saruman's apprentice who discovers his treachery and has to escape Isengard undetected.

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  • 💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2026

    The “most moral” show in the Middle East.

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  • Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2024

    A Malcom in the Middle revival series is in the works at Disney+. LFG!!!!!!!!!!

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  • KJ @keiranjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    I’ve watched the first series of Malcom in the Middle in just under 48 hours. What an incredible show

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  • grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    I am here to inform everyone the new Malcolm in the Middle series is great.

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  • Brady Africk @bradyafr.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 23, 2026

    Data centers have become targets in war. From Europe to the Middle East, recent strikes show how these expensive facilities can be vulnerable to cheap aerial threats. Check out more analysis and satellite imagery of wartime damage to data centers here: viewsfromabove.bradyafrick.com/p/data-cente...

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  • David Roberts @volts.wtfBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    I went on the NPR show The Middle with Jeremy Hobson -- or I guess, the supplementary show The Follow-Up -- to talk about data centers. Check it out!

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  • MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    They're talking right now on Nicolle Wallace show about how the families of military personnel at the Middle East bases were left to die. They literally abandoned them on the base as the bombs were coming down. No support to evacuate. They can't even recover their own personal belongings or money.

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  • Henry @henrythedog.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    for me personally I've always had this kinda Malcolm In The Middle, but very Jewish, like season 1 would be about the trails and tribulations of our "Malcolm" getting ready for his Bar Mitzvah, try to show as many parts of Jewish American life as you can

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  • Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2026

    Public viewing, like the Middle Ages. They might even make it pay per view, and have a halftime show, with AC/DC doing Highway To Hell.

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  • Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 6, 2026

    15 bases in the Middle East and now they have cut and run from the UK. Hegseth and the high-T gang are really putting on a show of … something.

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  • xiao yun @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 15, 2026

    'No time to recover': UNDP chief sounds alarm on growing poverty after Iran war shock. >Bangkok (Thailand) (AFP) – Millions could be thrown into poverty by surging energy costs, the impact of an intense El Nino phenomenon and higher interest rates, with vulnerable countries being pushed to the brink by repeated crises, the UN's development chief told AFP. >Global fuel prices have soared since the United States launched its war on Iran in late February, with Tehran's retaliations against…

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  • SuperApples @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 11, 2026

    This is the plot of an episode of The Middle.

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  • Andrew Benson @andrewbensonf1.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 13, 2026

    F1 Q&A: Does Norris-Piastri crash show McLaren’s team rules are failing; Ferrari’s strategy; Antonelli’s track limits problem; end-of-season schedule and the war in the Middle East - BBC Sport www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

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  • ✨🌟 ⭐️ LoveKat ⭐️🌟✨🟦♿️🧬🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🌎☮️🕊️🟪 @lovekat41.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    And I imagine they are cruel enough to go after water desalination plants, too. If the Middle East loses to access to water??? Unbelievable. We would be better off letting the penguins run the show. Pump the brakes.

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  • Faytuks Network @faytuksnetwork.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    NEW: Leaked U.S. Department of Homeland Security personnel files reportedly show ICE liaisons assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command, Africa Command, Southern Command, and Central Command in the Middle East, with access to surveillance… https://x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2115919949097009500

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  • Magical Angel Jao @jaooooo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    Was thinking about Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere today, which was a fun series that had some cool tricks and might have been truly special if it got a season 3 but alas the director did Mahouka and immediately lost his touch youtu.be/tqT9t-AjHiY this track rules so hard

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  • Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2026

    How drought and oil expansion are eroding livelihoods in Iraq's Hawizeh Marshes ➡️ Read/watch the third piece in MEE’s Fellowship series on water scarcity in the Middle East

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  • Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    Israel played a big role in causing that decline with a series of illegal wars in the Middle East.

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  • xiao yun @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 9, 2026

    Fuel, fertilizer costs strain US farmers' support for Republicans in midterms. > Canal Winchester (United States) (AFP) – As soybean farmer David Schacht begins his fall harvest, surging diesel and fertilizer costs are fast outpacing his earnings. He maintains this has not changed his support for President Donald Trump's Republican Party. > Still, he told AFP: "I did vote for Trump, and it kind of makes you grit your teeth. Just, what are you doing?" > >It has been a tough year for farmers…

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  • NickCrave @nickelodeoncrave.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    FAVORITE FAMILY TV SHOW Abbott Elementary Ghosts Ginny & Georgia Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair One Piece Stranger Things Wednesday XO, Kitty #KCA2026

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  • Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 27, 2026

    It sucks that we no longer have Asylum films, I’d rent TIMEPRIME in a hot second. Featuring the eldest brother from Malcolm In the Middle as a game show host

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  • Past Horizons Archaeology Equipment @pasthorizons.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    www.cam.ac.uk/stories/nean... A circular hole in a 75,000-year-old scapula suggests lethal conflict involving sharpened wooden spears among Neanderthals in the Middle East. The remains also show evidence of a brutal facial injury at least a year before death.

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  • Megan Hirsch is writing @meganhirsch.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    Worth reading, like every book in the Middle School series, for its silly underdog humor. TITLE: Middle School Escape to Australia AUTHOR: James Patterson and Martin Chatterton AGENT: UTA PUB: JIMMY Patterson Books, 2017. Illustr. Daniel Griffo. #kidlit #mglit #booksky #middlegrade #bookrec #mg

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  • German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2026

    Next up in our anniversary series is our lovely library! 📚 The GHIL’s research library is devoted primarily to German history from the Middle Ages to the present, with special emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1/3

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  • 70000TONS OF METAL @70000tons.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    For the first time ever outside the Middle East, #ORPHANEDLAND will present their ‘Exclusive Orchestra Show’ onboard #70000TONS OF METAL 2027, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy #MetalCruise! 'D'eeper into the unknown we go... #MetalSky

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  • We’re Not So Different podcast @wnsdpod.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    in the final ep of this she’ll series we talk about gunpowder and the buildup of state capacity in the Middle Ages, warfare in China, the Mongols spreading it across the Old World and more www.spreaker.com/episode/medi...

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  • Coaster’s 🏳️‍🌈😂😎 @coastclark.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2026

    POST BLUE WAVE TSUNAMI and Dems running show! 45 says he going to the Middle East — will probably leave permanently. End Iran War, via War Powers Act Departure Mike Johnson. New Healthcare Supplements New Student Loan Repayment programs Work ceases on DC Arch, Ballroom, DC Golfcourse $s to Israel

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  • SL Holling @poetdevotee.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2026

    I watched Matthew Cole discussing his book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed's Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East on the Daily Show last night. This is what he said. His book covers the tip of the iceberg. There is so much more, so much worse to be discovered.

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  • CCShoreditch @ccshoreditch.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2026

    and the innocent people being killed in Ukraine 😢 not to mention the shit show that is the Middle East 🤬

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