I grew up in Puerto Rico, where they ran the Tom Baker adventures as a strip at 7 on weekdays. Grillo-Marxuach: I became a fan in the late '70s. What is unusual about this particular fanfic, is the fact that the writer is Javier Grillo-Marxuach, the creator of "The Middleman."ĬNN Geek Out spoke with Grillo-Marxuach, a fanboy who is also known for his work on "Lost," "Medium" and "Jake 2.0," about this meeting of the Middleman and the Doctor.ĬNN Geek Out: What inspired you to write this fanfic? Are you a big "Doctor Who" fan? Needless to say, there was much rejoicing in the nerd community over this work of fan fiction, including "Middleman" star Natalie Morales' response that the author "wrote her dreams."
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By that standard, it’s far from the middle, but rather rises straight to the top."The Middleman," a comic book series and much-beloved, yet short-lived ABC Family TV series - now available on DVD - has been called "America's 'Doctor Who.'" In a new bit of dreamy time-travel sci-fi, the Middleman actually meets Doctor Who! It’s a show, frankly, for people who love (and have probably watched too much) TV. Even Wendy’s “woe is me” whining gradually grows on you.īright and breezy, “The Middleman” manages the increasingly rare feat of being knowing but not snide. Kids and young adults probably won’t get the more obscure references (which, in addition to the above James Bond drop-in, include “Shaft” and “Planet of the Apes”), but they should nevertheless find much to savor in the quirky tone, rat-a-tat dialogue and Beeslar’s way-cool, clean-cut 1950s-style hero. The opener (shot in Vancouver, though series production shifts to Los Angeles) also features “24’s” Mary Lynn Rajskub in a guest stint as the requisite mad scientist, who Middleman disparages as “Blofeld.” Wendy’s apartment, meanwhile, is drolly identified onscreen as “the illegal sublet Wendy shares with another young, photogenic artist,” while she refers to the Middleman’s organization as “the paramilitary version of Amway.” When Wendy grudgingly agrees to join up - having honed hitherto-unknown skills playing Xbox - a montage quickly ensues modeled after the kitschy black-and-white opening titles of the ’60s TV show “The Avengers.” In the premiere, a shadowy figure is murdering mob bosses, yielding “Scarface”/”The Godfather” jokes. Still, as constructed by Grillo-Marxuach and director Jeremiah Chechik, just about everything here crackles. So far, you’re probably thinking, “So what?”
Lacking much else to do, Wendy - by day an aspiring artist with a doofus boyfriend - is recruited as his new sidekick. Enter the Middleman (Matt Keeslar), who subsequently reveals that he’s an “independent contractor” who works solving “exotic problems” - wielding oversized weaponry and gadgets from an unidentified benefactor (hence his name) to dispatch threats culled straight out of comic books. At first blush, the concept looks like just another “slacker gets a chance to save the universe” exercise, with twentysomething Wendy Watson (Natalie Morales) introduced in a dead-end temp job - right before a multitentacled monster smashes through the glass and attacks her.
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