It's Season Seven, and life with Frankie and Mike (Patricia Heaton and Neil Flynn) is going to Heck in a handbasket! With the house to himself, Brick (Atticus Shaffer) is entering eighth grade with a new confidence and somewhat new attitude; meanwhile, Sue’s (Eden Sher) off to college at Indiana State with blissful abandon, and Axl (Charlie McDermott) is still navigating all the parties, girlfriends and occasional studying in his college experience, while Frankie and Mike muddle their way through middle-age, middle-income, middle of the country Orson, Indiana.