The Middle
Oh, and your family's so perfect.
Created by Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline
On ABC
A warm, energetic family sitcom built on affection beneath dysfunction, where weekly mishaps resolve into reassurance that this imperfect family endures.
The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
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