Malcolm in the Middle is an inventive American sitcom that offers a chaotic, hilarious, and surprisingly heartfelt look at working-class family life. Premiering in 2000, the series centers on the Wilkerson family and is told largely through the perspective of Malcolm, a highly intelligent middle child struggling to survive the madness of his own household. Malcolm is a child prodigy forced into a special class for gifted students, which isolates him socially and intensifies his frustration with