Middletown

Before I begin, I just want to mention that this blog will contain SPOILERS for Middletown, so for everyone reading this please go and see it. Middletown was a wonderful show and the cast was spot on with how they portrayed their characters. I'm not really going to focus on each of the character aspects that were portrayed well, but rather what it added to the story. From the top of the show we are placed in this fictional town in the middle of nowhere and is even described as a place between places that have been forgotten. We then meet this crazy cast of characters who all are trying to find their own way in life. There was a particularly profound moment toward the end of the show where a member of the audience steps on to the stage between John, a character who had just passed away, and Mrs. Swanson who just had given birth. This was the scene that set the theme for the show for me. Each of the characters in the show all struggle with where they are in life and what it all really means, but maybe that is the whole point. All of us in some point in our life are lost on the long winding road of life. That audience member standing between life and death was physically showing us where we stand in the great voyage of life, in the middle. There are other great themes within the show such as trying to find your place and self realization, but I found that the most important moral is realizing that we all are just in the middle between life and death. In that, I hope we can all find our humanity.