Six reasons you should be watching The Middleman.

1. It’s the sort of show that fills its promo shots with bubbles, because who the hell cares?

“You kiss your mother with that mouth, huh? Garbage mouth? Yes, you! ”

2. Wendy’s PSA.

3. The Middleman, posing as an FBI agent, is checking out a crime scene. Wendy reluctantly joins him, in jeans and a tee.

The Middleman: Special Agent Watson, slacking off the dress code, I see.
Wendy: Oh, I don’t do dress code after sundown.
The Middleman: It’s bad apples like you that put Mr. Hoover in a dress.

Then they find the evidence, which is a banana peel. Yeah it is.

4. Matt Keeslar, on upcoming episodes: “In one of the episodes we battle trout craving zombies, people who have been bitten by Peruvian flying pike and have turned into zombies who crave the flesh of trout. Natalie and I were covered in fish gore and then tracked down by these trout zombies, so that was an odd thing.”

5. The Middleman’s PSA.

6. The name of the Italian restaurant — Il Mutande Grandissimo — translates to “The Really Big Underpants”.

Seriously, this show is packed with allusions, the heroine is actually snarky and not just “fiesty”, the hero is clean-cut and totally ridiculous in a good way, and the slug lines are all things like, “The illegal sublet Wendy shares with another young, photogenic artist, 3:15am.”