Karen L. Newman has been a published writer since 2004 in the horror, science fiction and fantasy genres. Over two hundred and fifty of her short stories and poems have been published both online and in print. Her books include EEKU (Sam’s Dot, 2005) and ChemICKals (Naked Snake Press, 2007) and her work has been nominated for a Dwarf Star Award. She won the 2005 Mary Jane Barnes Award and two of her poems received honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She edits the online magazine Afterburn SF, which publishes speculative short stories, and is the editor for the print poetry magazine Illumen. She also write reviews for Dark Discoveries. Her reviews have also been featured in Noneuclidean Cafe, The Dream People, Night to Dawn, and Gothic Review.
July 9, 2008, I downloaded the episode list from Wikipedia, showing eleven episodes; so when I heard about the cut, I just thought another one was added. However, when I checked the list again a month later, what do I find? You guessed it – twelve episodes. I compared lists. One shown in July is now gone, with two replacing it. That episode is “The Lovesick Werewolf Concatenation,” which I believe is the lost episode. Here The Middleman and Wendy fight werewolves disguised as secretaries who form a fan club honoring The Middleman himself. I’m guessing that one was cut because there was already a fanlike episode, “The Boyband Superfan Interrogation”.Or perhaps they didn’t want to offend secretaries. Who wants a lap full of hot coffee? The werewolf angle would have been entertaining – a good balance with the vampire episode. Or maybe they figured zombies and vampires were enough monsters for one season.
Maybe it’ll be shown next season, if The Middleman is picked up again. I hope it is.