The Middle (2009)

Comedy · Family

The daily mishaps of a married woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempts to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.

IMDb rating: 7.7 (63,424 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 matches the IMDb rating
Seasons: 9
Streaming (US): Amazon Prime Video · Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 9 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2009)

7.64 avg 24 episodes 7.6 → 8.1 21 min avg

Big finale

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	7.6	1,212
2	The Cheerleader	7.6	897
3	The Floating Anniversary	7.3	844
4	The Trip	7.6	765
5	The Block Party	7.8	747
6	The Front Door	7.6	738
7	The Scratch	7.7	740
8	Thanksgiving	7.7	737
9	Siblings	7.6	696
10	Christmas	7.8	714
11	The Jeans	7.6	700
12	The Neighbor	7.7	743
13	The Interview	7.7	679
14	The Yelling	7.5	656
15	Valentine's Day	7.8	694
16	The Bee	7.8	676
17	The Break-Up	7.9	683
18	The Fun House	7.4	641
19	The Final Four	7.3	627
20	TV or Not TV	7.6	638
21	Worry Duty	7.5	636
22	Mother's Day	7.5	654
23	Signals	7.7	639
24	Average Rules	8.1	675

Season 2 (2010)

7.55 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 7.7 21 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Back to School	7.7	619
2	Homecoming	7.6	603
3	The Diaper Incident	7.6	594
4	The Quarry	7.5	580
5	Foreign Exchange	7.4	644
6	Halloween	7.5	607
7	A Birthday Story	7.9	619
8	Errand Boy	7.4	583
9	Thanksgiving II	7.6	591
10	A Simple Christmas	7.6	589
11	Taking Back the House	8.1	605
12	The Big Chill	7.7	576
13	Super Sunday	7.3	551
14	Valentines Day II	7.4	577
15	Friends, Lies, and Videotape	7.5	562
16	Hecks on a Plane	7.4	602
17	The Math Class	7.4	559
18	Spring Cleaning	7.7	553
19	The Legacy	7.5	555
20	Royal Wedding	7.3	565
21	Mother's Day II	7.5	552
22	The Prom	7.4	539
23	The Bridge	7.4	553
24	Back to Summer	7.7	538

Season 3 (2011)

7.67 avg 24 episodes 7.5 → 7.6 21 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Forced Family Fun: Part 1	7.5	573
2	Forced Family Fun: Part 2	7.4	560
3	Hecking Order	7.9	569
4	Major Changes	7.6	539
5	The Test	7.5	521
6	Bad Choices	7.7	525
7	Halloween II	7.9	544
8	Heck's Best Thing	7.7	519
9	The Play	7.6	524
10	Thanksgiving III	7.6	536
11	A Christmas Gift	7.6	534
12	Year of the Hecks	7.9	566
13	The Map	7.9	557
14	Hecking It Up	7.5	518
15	Valentine's Day III	7.8	525
16	The Concert	7.6	506
17	The Sit Down	8.0	540
18	Leap Year	7.8	527
19	The Paper Route	7.5	504
20	Get Your Business Done	7.4	537
21	The Guidance Counselor	7.8	533
22	The Clover	7.8	516
23	The Telling	7.5	488
24	The Wedding	7.6	529

Season 4 (2012)

7.73 avg 24 episodes 7.5 → 8.0 23 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Last Whiff of Summer: Part 1	7.5	525
2	Last Whiff of Summer: Part 2	7.8	531
3	The Second Act	7.4	483
4	Bunny Therapy	7.6	503
5	The Hose	7.6	517
6	Halloween III: The Driving	7.8	503
7	The Safe	7.6	526
8	Thanksgiving IV	7.7	513
9	Christmas Help	7.5	496
10	Twenty Years	7.9	503
11	Life Skills	8.4	613
12	One Kid at a Time	7.8	492
13	The Friend	7.8	513
14	The Smile	7.8	521
15	Valentine's Day IV	8.1	509
16	Winners and Losers	7.9	500
17	Wheel of Pain	8.1	504
18	The Name	7.5	477
19	The Bachelor	8.0	498
20	Dollar Days	7.4	465
21	From Orson with Love	7.3	475
22	Hallelujah Hoedown	7.7	465
23	The Ditch	7.4	453
24	The Graduation	8.0	506

Season 5 (2013)

7.69 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 8.4 21 min avg

Big finale

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Drop Off	7.8	505
2	Change in the Air	7.6	488
3	The Potato	7.4	477
4	The 100th	7.7	490
5	Halloween IV: The Ghost Story	7.4	478
6	The Jump	7.6	466
7	Thanksgiving V	7.7	487
8	The Kiss	7.4	493
9	The Christmas Tree	8.0	515
10	Sleepless in Orson	7.5	474
11	War of the Hecks	7.8	478
12	The Carpool	7.7	491
13	Hungry Games	7.6	487
14	The Award	7.5	465
15	Vacation Days	7.5	463
16	Stormy Moon	7.4	468
17	The Walk	8.3	515
18	The Smell	7.8	480
19	The Wind Chimes	7.5	474
20	The Optimist	7.4	451
21	Office Hours	7.5	445
22	Heck on a Hard Body	7.9	467
23	Orlando	8.1	506
24	The Wonderful World of Hecks	8.4	592

Season 6 (2014)

7.80 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 8.7 21 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Unbraceable You	7.8	502
2	The Loneliest Locker	7.5	491
3	Major Anxiety	7.8	475
4	The Table	7.8	479
5	Halloween V	7.8	490
6	The Sinkhole	7.7	457
7	Thanksgiving VI	8.0	491
8	The College Tour	8.0	482
9	The Christmas Wall	7.7	460
10	Pam Freakin' Staggs	7.2	485
11	A Quarry Story	7.9	472
12	Hecks on a Train	7.8	477
13	Valentine's Day VI	7.8	474
14	The Answer	8.3	561
15	Steaming Pile of Guilt	7.6	443
16	Flirting with Disaster	7.8	465
17	The Waiting Game	8.0	473
18	Operation Infiltration	7.7	456
19	Siblings and Sombreros	7.6	435
20	Food Courting	7.5	438
21	Two of a Kind	7.5	505
22	While You Were Sleeping	8.0	448
23	Mother's Day Reservations	7.7	445
24	The Graduate	8.7	670

Season 7 (2015)

7.76 avg 24 episodes 7.9 → 8.4 21 min avg

Rebound

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Not Your Brother's Drop Off	7.9	508
2	Cutting the Cord	7.9	489
3	The Shirt	7.7	466
4	Risky Business	7.9	486
5	Land of the Lost	7.5	455
6	Halloween VI: Tick Tock Death	8.4	610
7	Homecoming II: The Tailgate	7.3	438
8	Thanksgiving VII	7.7	454
9	The Convention	7.9	460
10	No Silent Night	7.6	466
11	The Rush	7.8	446
12	Birds of a Feather	7.6	437
13	Floating 50	8.1	458
14	Film, Friends and Fruit Pies	7.5	442
15	Hecks at a Movie	7.6	453
16	The Man Hunt	7.7	441
17	The Wisdom Teeth	7.8	444
18	A Very Donahue Vacation	7.9	439
19	Crushed	7.7	437
20	Survey Says...	7.5	435
21	The Lanai	7.4	427
22	Not Mother's Day	7.7	444
23	Find My Hecks	7.8	439
24	The Show Must Go On	8.4	511

Season 8 (2016)

7.87 avg 23 episodes 7.7 → 8.1 21 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Core Group	7.7	501
2	A Tough Pill to Swallow	7.9	478
3	Halloween VII: The Heckoning	7.7	463
4	True Grit	7.5	447
5	Roadkill	8.0	463
6	Thanksgiving VIII	7.8	449
7	Look Who's Not Talking	7.8	441
8	Trip and Fall	7.8	460
9	A Very Marry Christmas	8.3	499
10	Escape Orson	7.9	450
11	Hoosier Maid	7.8	426
12	Pitch Imperfect	7.5	443
13	Ovary and Out	7.6	429
14	Sorry Not Sorry	7.9	454
15	Dental Hijinks	7.7	429
16	Swing and a Miss	7.8	438
17	Exes and Ohhhs	8.4	521
18	The Par-Tay	8.3	479
19	The Confirmation	7.9	451
20	Adult Swim	7.7	422
21	Clear and Present Danger	7.8	417
22	The Final Final	8.1	512
23	Fight or Flight	8.1	429

Season 9 (2017)

7.91 avg 24 episodes 7.7 → 9.2 23 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Vive La Hecks	7.7	498
2	Please Don't Feed the Hecks	7.7	456
3	Meet the Parents	7.7	460
4	Halloween VIII: Orson Murder Mystery	7.8	458
5	Role of a Lifetime	7.7	448
6	The Setup	7.5	432
7	Thanksgiving IX	7.9	444
8	Eyes Wide Open	7.7	428
9	The 200th	8.2	456
10	The Christmas Miracle	7.9	483
11	New Year's Revelations	7.8	460
12	The Other Man	7.2	508
13	Mommapalooza	7.7	433
14	Guess Who's Coming to Frozen Dinner	7.7	442
15	Toasted	7.9	428
16	The Crying Game	7.7	428
17	Hecks vs. Glossners: The Final Battle	7.8	528
18	Thank You for Not Kissing	7.6	431
19	Bat Out of Heck	7.8	425
20	Great Heckspectations	8.2	450
21	The Royal Flush	8.0	452
22	Split Decision	8.2	450
23	A Heck of a Ride: Part 1	9.3	978
24	A Heck of a Ride: Part 2	9.2	655

The Middle (2009)

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