It’s back to high quality, and the beginning of a terrific run of episodes! A cursed tuba from the Titanic is this episode’s Maguffin, plus Roxy and her succubi return. The group placement is much too labored and perhaps the most obvious reminder that this originally ran on ABC Family. Varsity Fanclub guest stars as a successful boy-band who are secretly alien dictators trying to get enough teengirl screams to open a warp back to their home galaxy. Pip rips off Wendy’s paintings for his own gallery show, although they’re based on her cases. And a continuing antagonist is introduced in the person of Pip, the apartment building owner’s son and annoying artist wannabe. Here’s where the show really demonstrates how weirdly amazing it can be. There are also some unusual effects and filming choices that heighten the surreality of all the events. The flying fish fight is hilarious, as is Noser’s version of “Stump the Band”, amazing in its simplicity. Everyone is even stranger than usual in this episode, which is saying something. Unfortunately, Wendy faces conflict between her job and her friends, as a giant zombie pike is infecting people with crazed undead desire for fish, keeping her from Lacey’s performance. Wendy continues training while she and Lacey prepare for an art crawl through their apartment building and share notes on their mother issues. Wendy’s loser ex-boyfriend put their breakup on the internet, which makes it difficult for her to concentrate on the mission of hunting down aliens who look like plastic surgery addicts. This is also a great episode for showing the depth of Wendy and Lacey’s friendship.
I like the two of them together they spark nicely, and it’s good for her not to be paired up with her boss. He and Wendy immediately bond over her “poor man’s Yugo”. This episode introduces Brendan Hines as Tyler Ford, who would have been the Middleman trainee if his roommate wasn’t a total loser. Wendy is supposed to be trained by Sensei Ping, but he’s abducted by Mexican wrestlers, while Lacey takes a job at the Booty Chest, “the pirate-themed sports bar with scantily clad waitresses”. Meanwhile, Lacey sets out to protest the fur-using Roxy, a former succubus who is now a fashion designer, but winds up as her assistant. The Pilot Episode Sanction, in which a gorilla becomes a mobster.Ī terra cotta warrior who can control earth with his mind wants to kill Duncan, the heir to the Qin Dynasty. Ida is constantly implying that Wendy’s a pothead in funny ways my favorite is the reference, “that’s the hippie lettuce talking”. Ida (Mary Pat Gleason), the robot assistant, resembles a grumpy old schoolteacher and dislikes Wendy. Her daffy roommate Lacey (Brit Morgan) is an activist, and their friend Noser (Jake Smollett, my favorite character) apparently lives in the hall outside their apartment and speaks in song lyrics. (Also, very handsome.) Wendy is realistic and respected for her skills and coolness under pressure, even when unsure of what she’d been recruited for. The Middleman (Matt Keeslar) is a grown-up Boy Scout, admirable and interesting even though he drinks milk and refuses to use bad language. It took a little while to get going and for the audience to get used to its unique view of the world, which makes a marathon viewing of several episodes at once an ideal way to try it out.
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It was full of action and jokes (especially in the scene-change captions), fun and uplifting without being sappy or stupid. It presented the idea that heroism was hopeful, not something that would be a burden, a wonderfully refreshing approach.
He recruits her to work with him as a Middleman, and they actually describe themselves as superheroes without the spandex, fighting unusual threats and villains.Īs the creator says, it was “a show by geeks and for geeks”, with terrific pop culture allusions and a very modern attitude. Instead of freaking out, she has a “whatever” approach to saving herself, which impresses the mysterious troubleshooter in an Eisenhower jacket who saves the day. The concept (there’s more information at my earlier link) is that artist Wendy (Natalie Morales) is temping at a lab to pay bills when she’s attacked by some crazy genetic monster. If you don’t want to read all the detail, here’s the short version: buy the DVD set and enjoy it. The dialogue is wonderful and knowing, and I love the suit-up Avengers homage montage when Wendy finally joins the team. It’s fun, clever, adventurous, and imaginative. I’ve loved this show since I watched the pilot.
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