15 years later malcolm is a tortured self loathing closet homosexual who went straight from fumbling girls in middle andhigh school to fumbling men as an adult, francis is still happily married to piama but has explored his attraction to men via the occasional threesome, reese does pro wrestling in drag as a side hustle, and dewey is a woman. it’s in the bible look it up john 3:16
It looks like Hal and Lois are at the same house, but it’s a home transformed! A fresh paint job, green lawn, beautiful brick steps… I guess having grown up children will do that?
The exterior isn’t the only part of the house that’s changed! A paint job and new furniture have the dumpy old house looking recognizable. I like that the new pillows are the same pattern as the old couch (which I miss).
Malcolm: My life is fantastic now.
Malcolm standing in an office, presumably where he works. Marketing perhaps, based on the whiteboards behind him? What do y’all think?
Malcolm: All I had to do is stay away from my family.
Kelly (left, played by Vaughan Murrae), Francis, Lois, and Piama are dragging somebody along the floor, who is incapacitated. Based on his hair color, I’m guessing Dewey?
It looks like the kids’ room has gotten an upgrade too. Fresh paint, new colors, and is the rainbow colored toy chest a hint at something, perhaps Kelly’s gender identity? (They are confirmed as non binary.)
Malcolm’s daughter Leah (left, played by Keeley Karsten) and his girlfriend Tristan (right, played by Kiana Madeira) are laughing about something.
Is it possible they’re meeting for the first time here? I’ve seen speculation that Tristan is Leah’s mother, but they don’t look alike to me, and if Malcolm has been with Tristan for 15 years, wouldn’t they be married by now? (Though maybe I shouldn’t assume.)
Lois: Malcolm has been intentionally hiding himself from this family for years!
Lois points out Malcolm’s avoidance of the family, which is a bit funny to me. If he’s been no contact with the family for 10+ years, as the premise suggests, why are they just now catching on that he’s avoiding them?
Francis and Piama looking good! Glad to see they’re still together. Do we think they have kids? I hope so and I hope they’re all girls. We already know Malcolm has a daughter and I think it would be a good gag if all the boys wind up having girls.
Reese: By comparison, Reese looks pretty good.
Reese is in bed with Hal for…some reason! Based on his dialogue here, it’s implied that his life isn’t going so great, though this could be a misdirect. It may not even be Malcolm he’s comparing himself to here.
Is Reese living back at home or does he just visit so much that he watches his dad sleep?
Unknown Guy: OPEN FIRE!!
Some Army looking dude in all pink shoots pink confetti in Lois’s direction. Based on his getup, he may be from Francis’s military school days or Reese’s brief stint in the Army. Or he could be entirely unrelated to anything from the original show.
What’s with the confetti cannons, though? It appears, based on this teaser, that there is an anniversary event planned for Hal and Lois, but why all the pink? Is there some sort of gender reveal happening at the same time?
RETURN OF THE GENTLEMEN CALLERS!!
Lois comes stalking into the bathroom where Malcolm is hiding. Good luck with that, buddy!
Hal and Lois are still hot for each other! We love to see it.
Tristan: You can’t spend the rest of your life hiding and denying your family even exists.
Malcolm: It worked perfectly until they showed up!
Malcolm, Tristan, and Leah are on their way somewhere. It seems like Malcolm is having none of Tristan’s advice, though maybe he’s being forced to attend the 40th wedding anniversary by Leah and Tristan anyway.
Leah kicking somebody, I assume Malcolm, into the backseat. It seems she has some of that Wilkerson chaos in her blood! ;)
Speaking of Wilkerson chaos, Hal brains somebody with what looks like some kind of instrument. What do we think this guy’s offense was?
The final shot is a big group scene! Nearly everybody is present - Kelly, Jaime (played by Anthony Timpano), and Reese on the right, with Lois and Hal in the back, Francis and Piama in the center, and Leah, Malcolm, and Tristan on the right. There appears to have been some sort of explosion, which Hal and Francis got the worst of, though Reese and Malcolm have some remnants on their clothes. Still no Dewey though…are they saving Caleb Ellsworth-Clark’s reveal?
pandemic episode of malcolm in the middle: malcolm struggles to reconcile his commitment to quarantine safety measures with the fact that all the girls his age are so lonely and isolated that they’re suddenly willing to go on dates with HIM, of all people. reese discovers that egging neighbors’ houses still counts as a “socially-distanced” activity and has the time of his life. dewey does some mental calculus and realizes that he gets fewer wedgies per day from his brothers than he does from the school bully and decides he’ll keep these lockdowns in effect at all costs, so he starts calling in fake pandemic data to local health districts to bump the numbers up. lois gets in a physical altercation with a non-masker at the lucky aide and starts duct taping people’s mouths shut, which craig finds both alarming and oddly alluring. (craig then immediately gets infected from licking his hand to slick back his hair in a bid to impress her.) hal works from home but, after slacking off on the family computer all day, is driven to obsession by the thought of becoming the digital solitaire world champion.
Hal makes it to the finals of an online tournament and is moments away from winning the $100,000 prize but at the last second one of Reese’s wayward eggs causes a neighborhood wide power outage. The episode ends with Hal wailing with anguish in the pitch black house.
thirty thousand notes and this is the only good addition anyone has made. you understand malcolm in the middle.
reese malcolminthemiddle. he’s a bully. he’s a master chef. he canonically possesses no sense of empathy. he writes poetry. he ran away and joined the army. he immediately deserted the army. he’s been straight married. he’s been gay married. he’s godless. he’s christian. he had frosted tips.
