It is a good job Comedy Central made the premiere of Charlie Sheen's new comedy (and I use the term lightly) Anger Management a double bill; because if the first episode had been aired alone, not a lot of people would be coming back the following week.
Charlie plays, hey wouldn't you know it, Charlie a former baseball star, who is now an anger management therapist. It does happen, I suppose. And that's about it. The first episode was a hectic mess, it seemed like the creators wanted to shove every possible scenario into the pilot, so we saw Charlie with his regular group, with his ex wife and daughter, with his prison group (a segment I hope is cut for good) with his therapist/lover, oh it goes on and on. It was so frantic it made 24 look like Lewis, the only thing it wasn't was funny. By the end I was thinking why don't they throw Ashton Kutcher in Anger Management and Charlie Sheen back in to Two and a Half Men? If Pam can have a season long shower dream, in Dallas, why can't Charlie?
However, things looked up, a little, in the second episode as the show lost the chaos and settled down, we actually had a story and Charlie Sheen was allowed to relax and show us why we all liked him so much in Two and a Half Men. Also, I think a lot depends on how well the characters of Charlie's regular therapy group develop, at the moment they haven't really made much of an impression and there is no evidence, so far, that Anger Management is an ensemble piece.
But, when all is said and done, there aren't many winners in this whole affair. Charlie Sheen hasn't won, Two and a Half Men hasn't won, and we, the viewers, certainly haven't won.
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