Wednesday, September 30, 2009
TV Tonight: Hank & The Middle
Posted By Bill Frost on September 30, 2009, 3:20 PM
Grammer plays a dethroned Wall Street CEO who's forced to scale back and move to small town; fish-out-of-water "hilarity ensues--you know, because there's a laugh track trying to convince you this shitcom is funny. Pure, exhausting desperation; avoid Hank at all costs.
More on par with Modern Family and Cougar Town (both of which opened big last week) is The Middle, starring Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn (Scrubs’ Janitor) as the Hecks, heads of a middle-class family living in Middle America--get it? Funny stuff with the promise of getting much better, and no damned laugh track to tell you so.
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