For any sitcom fans out there, you were probably tuning into The Middle weekly from 2009 to 2018. The show follows the dysfunctional lives of the Hecks — a middle-class, middle-America family — from ...

A lot of network sitcoms in the late-2000s-to-early-2010s era became massive, totemic cultural institutions, with years and years of prestige, piles of awards, and outsized influence to their name — ...

Since it ended in 2018, however, The Middle has found a larger audience than it ever did during its prime-time run, thanks to streaming and reruns on Freeform. It also doesn’t hurt that two of its ...