The 2026 TV schedule has already included a surprising amount of reboots, revivals, and spinoffs, and we’re only halfway through the year. One of those revivals included Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair. Streaming now with a Hulu subscription, the four-episode series brought back most of the Malcolm cast with even more chaos and surprises in tow. One surprise I just found out about was how the crew redid the original house, and it sounds like an insane amount of work.
Even though I am always on the fence about revivals and reboots, it’s always incredible seeing the same sets as if nothing ever changed. Between the exact layout, intricate details and more, you’d assume that said set was never torn down or that they had blueprints of the set and knew where everything should be. But in Malcolm in the Middle’s case, things were a bit more complicated. Bryan Cranston, who played Hal, did Variety’s Actors on Actors segment with Rhea Seehorn, where he talked about doing the revival. Seehorn asked him if they had to rebuild the sets in Life’s Still Unfair, and he got real about the house:
