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Not Eliminating The Middleman
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<p>So, we’re at a some friends’ place for barbecue this afternoon, and friends say “We know you don’t watch much TV, but you need to see this…”</p>
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<p>“This” turns out to be the pilot of <cite>The Middleman</cite> a peculiar and unusually intelligent TV series that ran for only 12 episodes in 2008 before being canceled. The protagonist is a tough-minded female art student who gets recruited into a sort of “Men In Black” organization that deals with exotic problems – mad scientists, invading aliens, supernatural threats, that sort of thing. Yeah, I know, yet another spin on Nick Pollotta’s <cite>Bureau 13</cite> novels – but this version has a sharp, surrealistic edge and the kind of script where no word in it is filler or wasted.</p>
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<p>The writing style of <cite>The Middleman</cite> kind of got into my head. Here’s how I know this: afterwards, we’re disrobing to go to the hot tub, and I looked at my piles of clothes and stuff and thought this:</p>
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<p>“I carry a smartphone, a Swiss-Army knife, and a gun. What kind of problem do you <em>want</em> solved?”</p>
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