Avenue, the Egon Spengler Award, and Reitman University as they offer tribute to Ghostbusters. For instance, in “The Ectoplasmic Panhellenic Investigation,” there are references to Ray Parker Jr. Episodes have frequent references to popular films, often paying homage through the use of names of characters and locations. It is clear that the production team for The Middleman is made up of fans of pop culture. Wendy Watson confronts the Hentai creature. Various tenants of Wendy’s apartment building also appear throughout. Other recurring characters include Roxy Wasserman (Elaine Hendrix), a reformed succubus and informant, and High Aldwin (Alan Smyth), an alien potentate.
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Other characters include Wendy’s roommate, Lacey Thornfield (Brit Morgan), a confrontational spoken-word performance artist, Noser (Jake Smollett), the musician who lives in the hallway outside Wendy and Lacey’s apartment, and Ida (Mary Pat Gleason), an android whose appearance processor got stuck on domineering schoolmarm version 2.0.Įach episode stands on its own and has a creature-of-the-week feel to it, although there are running jokes throughout the series, and eventually Brendan Hines and Mark Sheppard are introduced as Tyler Ford and Manservant Neville, respectively and have story arcs that run through multiple episodes.
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Starring Natalie Morales as a young artist working a series of dead end jobs and Matt Keeslar as the titular Middleman whose mandate is to protect the people from threats infra, extra, and juxta-terrestrial. I was unaware of the show until Grillo-Marxuach was invited to be a guest of honor at Capricon 32 in Chicago, when I picked up the series and was blown away by it. Unfortunately, that meant that a lot of people missed out on an excellent send-up of comic books that paid intelligent homage to pop culture. On June 16 2008, Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s series The Middlemandebuted on ABC Family and aired a dozen episodes before disappearing on September 1, possibly because nobody knew that ABC Family was airing original programming, or they just assumed anything that was airing on the channel was aimed at families with young children. I start this series with The Middleman (which is covered in Journey Planet by The Middleman screenwriter Margaret Dunlap). The series also ties into an issue of the Hugo Award winning fanzine Journey PlanetI’m currently editing that will run appreciations of more than thirty television shows that were cancelled within two seasons. In addition to discussing the works, I’ll also note their availability. This is the first article in an occasional series called either Now Streaming or Not Streaming, depending on the availability of the television shows or films I’ll be discussing.
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