sorcyress | A show of multiple shades and dimensions

I am thrilled to announce that Middleman, some 16 years after it came out, still holds up pretty gosh-darn well!

DnD friend Scoop has been watching it with me --because he's recently Boston (re)based, we have now twice managed to do collective DnD from my place with bonus watching Middleman afterwards. Today we watched episodes 3-5 and I just really enjoyed it!

One of my observations is that the episodes seem to do a lot more recap/exposition than I think of these days when I think TV. I'm not sure how much is specifically part of Javi's quick-paced all-references-all-the-time-(including-to-itself) style, and how much is a feature of television from an era where it wasn't assumed that someone is watching the entire season in a few days.

My other observation is that I'm probably now older than EmmEmm and oh gods. I don't know if I'm ready to handle that. Maybe not quite? Maybe we're the same age?

Anyways, if you need any proof that the form of my attraction has gotten steadily queerer as I've aged, there you have it. I will always have a soft spot for clean-cut Matt Keesler('s arms), but oh dear, he is so rather too cishet for me. We'll see if I change my mind when we get to episode eight.

I did wind up saying something to Scoop about how the second DVD (eps 5-8) are when the show gets *really* good. We've got trout zombies, boy bands, the titanic, and sorority ghosts and let me just say _fuck yes_ to all of them. I explained it as the first four episodes need to set up and dwell on Wendy's background trauma so that we know what's up with her, but by now we've got it all understood and can just move forward into The Good Shit.

Anyways, I have seen The Pilot Episode Sanction some twenty or thirty times across my life, and I'll happily do that more, so hmu if you need to enjoy this with me sometime. Maybe in the fall if covid numbers are good I'll try and do another Middleman party or something...

~Sor
MOOP!