How does this show continue to top itself? Season 6 of “The Middle” starts out strong – with Sue FINALLY getting her braces off – and keeps delivering hilarious, heartfelt comedy from one episode to the next.
Something truly commendable about this series – and there is so much for which to praise it – is that each season is like a year in the life of the characters, so the audience feels like they’re living life right alongside Frankie, Mike, Axl, Sue, and Brick. The characters are allowed to grow and change, but (almost) always in the best (and funniest) possible way.
This was a season of comings and goings, as Sue and Darrin’s romance bloomed then abruptly ended when Darrin proposed (which would have made Sue’s name Sue Sue McGrew), and new relationships for Axl in the form of Devin Levin – basically, a female Axl – and Brick in the form of the tall, safari-hat-wearing Cindy Hornberger.
Standout episodes this season include “The Lonliest Locker,” in which Sue and Brad put on a senior play, the likes of which, only they could envision, “Halloween V,” which sees Sue trying to raise college money by showing the Charlie Brown Halloween special in an actual pumpkin patch, “The Christmas Wall,” in which Axl and Sean get into an intense argument about whether or not King Moonracer (from the Rudolph Christmas special) is or isn’t a toy, “Flirting With Disaster” which sees Frankie jokingly flirting with Axl’s friend, but she becomes alarmed when her comments get misconstrued, and the series finale, “The Graduate” – a personal favorite, in which Sue is shown in the most poignant scene possible, just how much she meant to her schoolmates.
Also worth mentioning is the excellent episode “Two of a Kind,” guest-starring the legendary Dick van Dyke as Uncle Dutch, and playing the sibling of his real-life brother, Jerry van Dyke, aka, Frankie’s father, Tag Spence. Seeing the two play off one another was truly gold, especially since this was Jerry’s final on-screen appearance as the character.
The DVDs are standard fair, but containing no extras as the deleted scenes and bloopers stopped being included in season 5’s releases, but even so, the episodes themselves are very much worth owning. Highly recommended!
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