Malcolm, or how I learned about the absurdity of everything

Malcolm in the middle, if you don`t know about this show, either you are too young or you are too oblivious about one of the best sit-coms of all times. Malcolm in the middle is a show that follows the misadventures and tragedies that a low-middle class family has to endure, from pranks going to the extreme by the children, or parents on the brink of a mental breakdown due to the stress of the modern world. 

Even though Malcolm, the middle child, is in the title of the show, the whole family takes the focus, each having a moment to be in the spotlight, although not necesarily for the right reasons. Besides Malcolm, we have Dewey the little naive brother, Reese the second son and not so smart prankster/bully, Francis as the oldest of them being the role model for the rest of the brothers, but with him dropping out of military school and ending in the early seasons in a dead end job in the tundra of Alaska, is not the best role model they could aspire to follow. The parents,  Hal the child like/dreamer kind of father, and Lois, the grounded parent and the figure of authority for the whole family, round up the main characters of the show.

I can not say which episode is my favourite, since all the episodes in my opinon are great in their own right, showing us how a dysfuntional family has to make it to the end of each day the best way they could find, while also breaking with the idea that with love and all that hippie stuff, anything was possible and all could be solve in a satisfactory way. It was a crude way of showing the difficulties of a family, while also laughing at the absurdity of the world, and I love every second of it.