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  • 2nd January
    2012
  • 02
folkbloodbaths: I watched this show (The Middleman) last week, and to be honest, when I first saw Wendy Watson I thought “Oh, here we go.” The show is going to want me to think she’s ugly (as if anyone could think Natalie Morales is ugly?) because she has glasses and her hair is neither poker straight nor perfectly curled and doesn’t wear frilly dresses all the time. There’s going to be a scene where she puts in contacts and lets down her hair, at the urging of her beautiful roommate, and ta-dah, makeover, now she’s beautiful. Finally, she’ll get a boyfriend, maybe for the first time. And then they didn’t do that! Wendy had a boyfriend! She had other boyfriends in the past and has a new boyfriend during the show! She gets a makeover from her gorgeous roommate… because she’s going undercover, not because she needs it! She doesn’t magically become more or less pretty when she puts on/takes off her glasses and wears a ponytail/wears her hair down! And even more than that, her appearance didn’t matter! Yes, she’s pretty, but she isn’t characterized by her prettiness (even her roommate, the more stereotypically “Hollywood pretty” girl isn’t characterized by her appearance). Wendy is characterized by how smart and brave and witty and good at her job she is, in both her professional and her personal life.  There were a lot of things I liked about The Middleman, but I enjoyed this.

folkbloodbaths:

I watched this show (The Middleman) last week, and to be honest, when I first saw Wendy Watson I thought “Oh, here we go.” The show is going to want me to think she’s ugly (as if anyone could think Natalie Morales is ugly?) because she has glasses and her hair is neither poker straight nor perfectly curled and doesn’t wear frilly dresses all the time. There’s going to be a scene where she puts in contacts and lets down her hair, at the urging of her beautiful roommate, and ta-dah, makeover, now she’s beautiful. Finally, she’ll get a boyfriend, maybe for the first time.

And then they didn’t do that! Wendy had a boyfriend! She had other boyfriends in the past and has a new boyfriend during the show! She gets a makeover from her gorgeous roommate… because she’s going undercover, not because she needs it! She doesn’t magically become more or less pretty when she puts on/takes off her glasses and wears a ponytail/wears her hair down! And even more than that, her appearance didn’t matter! Yes, she’s pretty, but she isn’t characterized by her prettiness (even her roommate, the more stereotypically “Hollywood pretty” girl isn’t characterized by her appearance). Wendy is characterized by how smart and brave and witty and good at her job she is, in both her professional and her personal life. 

There were a lot of things I liked about The Middleman, but I enjoyed this.

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  • 22nd September
    2011
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Wendy: Lacey…The Booty Chest? The pirate-themed sports bar with scantily-clad waitresses?

Lacey: (placing pirate hat upon her head) Arr. 

Wendy: Lacey, you’re an independent, politically-active woman of today and you’re working in a den for middle-aged gropers and frat boys?

Lacey: This “independent woman of today” is paying off her crushing student loan debt, with tips from middle-aged gropers and frat boys. It’s like turning bad money into good.

Wendy: Oh my god, you hear that? It’s Simone de Beauvoir turning in her grave.

The Middleman 1.03 “The Sino-Mexican Revelation”

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  • 7th September
    2011
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  • 16th June
    2011
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You may watch The Middleman and come to the conclusion that our characters live in a fantasy world: an unreal realm where friendships are sustaining and sustained, where heroism is rewarded not with tragedy and further burden, by with hope—and where evil is the result not of an unbeatable, unknowable, and all-encompassing conspiracy, but of a stone-headed unwillingness to face the challenges of life with common human decency.

You may even be tempted to think that the worldview of The Middleman is naive, that you have been watching a bunch of Pollyannas spinning away childish fantasies of positivity…

…and as you walk away into the inky moral darkness of our complicated world—the truth of cruel, cold, and meaningless existence—you may even be tempted to smile at a stranger you pass on the street…maybe because you are amused by our callow misunderstanding of life’s bitter reality…maybe because you look at us and our little show as one might a child who doesn’t know any better…

…or maybe just because it looks like that stranger on the street could use a smile.

And when you do…just remember…our plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity.

“An Introduction by Series Creator Javier Grillo-Marxuach” from Getting to Know Your Truth Bomb: USER MANUAL aka The Middleman box set DVD guide (via goshyesthemiddleman)

Reblogging in honor of the fact that The Middleman premiered three years ago today!

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  • 16th June
    2011
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  • 6th April
    2011
  • 06
mspollygreen: THE MIDDLEMAN: You know how in comic books there’s all kinds of mad scientists and aliens and androids and monsters and all of them want to either destroy or take over the world?WENDY: In comic books, sure.THE MIDDLEMAN: Well, it really does work like that.WENDY: Get out.THE MIDDLEMAN: You already forgot what you saw?WENDY: And you’re the superhero?THE MIDDLEMAN: I never wear tights…

mspollygreen:

THE MIDDLEMAN: You know how in comic books there’s all kinds of mad scientists and aliens and androids and monsters and all of them want to either destroy or take over the world?
WENDY: In comic books, sure.
THE MIDDLEMAN: Well, it really does work like that.
WENDY: Get out.
THE MIDDLEMAN: You already forgot what you saw?
WENDY: And you’re the superhero?
THE MIDDLEMAN: I never wear tights…

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  • 14th March
    2011
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  • 13th March
    2011
  • 13
lizznotliz: Wendy: And now you’re leaving me behind?The Middleman: This is re-gosh-darn-diculous. You weren’t exactly dying to go into that mob hang out, am I right?Wendy: Yeah, but I had a choice in that. So rule number one: Never, ever give me the ‘Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do’ speech before you strap on your six-gun and leave me back at the ranch making tea with Ida, the prune-faced android. Dear Tumblr, Y’all seem to like your Strong Female Characters. I mean, this place is like a giant lovefest for Juliet Burke, Dana Scully, Sam Carter, etc etc etc. Keeping this in mind, I thought I should introduce you to someone. That chick up there? That’s Wendy Watson. Wendy Watson is frakking awesome. She can keep her head while fighting giant mutated body-part monsters, vampire puppets, trout zombies, and evil alternate versions of herself and her friends. She is a loyal and supportive friend, she can fly any crate with wings and an engine, and she has never given up hope of finding out what happened to her father who disappeared under mysterious and as-of-yet unexplained circumstances when she was fourteen. She is Sensei Ping’s best apprentice and the relationship she has with the Middleman is just plain great. (Speaking of great relationships on this show, Wendy and her roommate Lacey make sure this show passes the Bechdel Test.) Go. Watch The Middleman. Discover Wendy Watson’s awesomeness for yourself. You won’t regret it. ETA: 3000th post! Woohoo!

lizznotliz:

Wendy: And now you’re leaving me behind?
The Middleman: This is re-gosh-darn-diculous. You weren’t exactly dying to go into that mob hang out, am I right?
Wendy: Yeah, but I had a choice in that. So rule number one: Never, ever give me the ‘Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do’ speech before you strap on your six-gun and leave me back at the ranch making tea with Ida, the prune-faced android.

Dear Tumblr,

Y’all seem to like your Strong Female Characters. I mean, this place is like a giant lovefest for Juliet Burke, Dana Scully, Sam Carter, etc etc etc. Keeping this in mind, I thought I should introduce you to someone. That chick up there? That’s Wendy Watson.

Wendy Watson is frakking awesome. She can keep her head while fighting giant mutated body-part monsters, vampire puppets, trout zombies, and evil alternate versions of herself and her friends. She is a loyal and supportive friend, she can fly any crate with wings and an engine, and she has never given up hope of finding out what happened to her father who disappeared under mysterious and as-of-yet unexplained circumstances when she was fourteen. She is Sensei Ping’s best apprentice and the relationship she has with the Middleman is just plain great. (Speaking of great relationships on this show, Wendy and her roommate Lacey make sure this show passes the Bechdel Test.)

Go. Watch The Middleman. Discover Wendy Watson’s awesomeness for yourself. You won’t regret it.

ETA: 3000th post! Woohoo!

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  • 12th March
    2011
  • 12
goshyesthemiddleman: Welcome to goshyesthemiddleman! As you’re probably already aware, this is an fyeah blog for the television show The Middleman, which I personally adored and few people I’ve encountered have ever heard of. I’ll be reblogging MM-related posts, posting things I find online and hopefully in future, screencapping episodes for you guys.  If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and if you want to submit posts, go for it! Thanks for following!  ARTCRAWL!

goshyesthemiddleman:

Welcome to goshyesthemiddleman!

As you’re probably already aware, this is an fyeah blog for the television show The Middleman, which I personally adored and few people I’ve encountered have ever heard of. I’ll be reblogging MM-related posts, posting things I find online and hopefully in future, screencapping episodes for you guys. 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask, and if you want to submit posts, go for it! Thanks for following! 

ARTCRAWL!

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  • 18th February
    2011
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