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I still like this show, even though I somehow seem to have missed out on 1x02.. There's new theme music, shiny graphics and The Avengers meets.. and well pretty much everyone else. The series trademark seems to be big chunks of dialogue delivered at machine gun speed (that's between the actual machine-guns / lasers and anything else going off) by more or less everyone on screen. Dub (Wendy Watson, alias the very shiny Natalie Morales) is still the new girl on the block, not at all nervous at meeting the mysterious surly asian guy (Sensei Ping) who's being brought in to train her. The Middleman (Matt Keeslar) is doing the nervous corporate "incoming VIP" two-step regarding Ping, while Ida (Mary Pat Gleason) alias "Threepio" the all-purpose sidekick (and resident alien cyborg meets Terminator) patiently glares on -and on. Someone steals a fabulous diamond / dub picks up Sensei Ping (who blends into the crowd ninja-style by wearing a fetching yellow Mexican wrestlers mask) / they get hijacked by a bunch of Mexican wrestlers (Aha! That's why the mask.)/ Dub does slutty but sweet (Arrh!) in a failed rescue attempt. Noser shows up for the obligatory Johnny Cash reference, there's a quick flight in a harrier and a rescue from the secret pyramid of Itzalich.stuff. Somewhere in there there's a brief Batman sketch. Mark Dacascos - who's not been in anything I've seen for a while, but is still in better shape than any several people have any right to be - does a nice job of sending up the whole Bruce Lee thing as Sensei Ping (though he does a crap accent). -Please don't tell him I said that. He kicks collective Mexican asno and demonstrates the Thumb of Death. (Be careful how you use this knowledge in future). There's a brief almost-romance for Dub with someone who may or may not come back on account of a bad attack of 48-hour amnesia ("surely this only happens in films..."), and the whole thing is wrapped up like a nice new car in.. a nice new car. Did I mention a lot happens in under an hour? It may not be culture, it may not be clever, but Middleman is refreshing and its highly polished, and it passes the time really painlessly with a few laughs on the way.
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