Free Download of ‘The Middleman’ Pilot Episode
For those of you who are iTunes-enabled, the first episode of the new ABC Family series The Middleman, based on a comic book series by former Lost writer and producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, is currently available as a free download. The series premieres this Monday, June 16, at 8 PM on ABC.
The episode will only be available for a limited time, so make it a point to snag it as soon as you have a chance.
For those who aren’t familiar with The Middleman, the series chronicles the adventures of a secret agency whose slogan is "Fighting evil so that you don’t have to." The Viper Comics series was filled with well-scripted humor, crazy science-fiction gadgetry, over-the-top action and a never-ending supply of creepy-crawly tentacled things for the heroes to battle. After picking up a copy of the first volume a few years ago (there have been a total of three volumes published thus far), I became a big fan of the series — so the news that a television adaptation was in the works was a nice surprise indeed.
Grillo-Marxuach initially conceived the story of The Middleman as a television project, but Paul Dini convinced him to kick it off as a comic. The pilot episode of the series was written by Grillo-Marxuach, who also serves as executive producer of the series.
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Also available on Xbox LIVE in regular and HD for free.
Okay. Maybe the comic was good. But the show is GOD-awful. I forced myself to sit through the whole thing, just to make sure. But by the end, there was no doubt. This is a MASSIVE stinker.
Depends if you're a fan of camp. Like the old 60's Batman.
I wouldn't say god-awful. It had a good sense of humor, the characters were interesting, and they had a good knowledge of comics.. I think it was a pacing issue. The actors were good at snappy patter, yet the show still felt…slow.Watch Pushing Daisies and you'll see what I mean. Its characters talk in rapid fire, and the show flies by. This one didn't – the patter was there, but there was a sense of dragging.Not every first episode is gold – Freakazoid didn't pick up speed till ep 2, but WOW did it pick up speed.I'll give it another shot.