“Malcolm in the Middle” was one of those rare, modern-ish, long-running shows that never felt forced, as far as the writing went.
If you grew up middle-class or with parents who worked to pay the bills, it felt like a funnier version of your own family, barely holding it together.
Many of us middle and older millennials didn’t just watch it from 2000 to 2006.
Many of us recognized pieces of our own homes in it.
The yelling and scheming among siblings and parents. The alliances and relatable hijinks and life lessons.
The original show was great and gave the audience the constant sense that everything could fall apart at any moment, even though it never did. That was the magic that kept people tuning in.
So when the four-episode reboot “Life’s Still Unfair” was announced, I was a little excited and also cautiously skeptical.
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Reboots usually fail,
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