"The Middle" -- The Top 25 Programs of 2017, No. 13

This is the last season for ABC's The Middle, the most underappreciated family comedy on television and one that, through its nine seasons, has dared to explore material most showrunners in Hollywood would prefer to not think about -- the challenges of everyday life as it is experienced by a modern American family that happens to be working class and whose house would never be featured in Better Homes Than Yours magazine.