Is Two and a Half Men …
the most under-rated sitcom these days? I had not heard from any of my fellow followers of slapstick about this show, nor picked up any viral buzz about it. I’d accidentally Tivo-ed an episode and was watching it in one of those in-between moments yesterday; between dinner and settling down to a book & music. While not being in the league of must-see-TV, it was quite funny; more so, since it comes from the CBS stable that is not exactly known for doing the funnies right.
It looks like a kinda Sally-Jesse-Raphael meets dysfunctional Full-House in a wierd ‘breaking-the-fourth-wall’ self-referential style. Maybe the self-referential part is only in the one episode I saw where Charlie (played by Charlie Sheen, whose scowl belongs to the Joey-from-Friends-smelling-fart-to-act-all-intense school of acting) talks about the woman he dated that later had a sex-change operation and is currently dating his mother saying in a made-for-neons statement “My mother and I slept with the same dude”. The funniest part however is when housekeeper plonks herself at the breakfast table telling Charlie, “I will clean your house free for a week, Charlie” to which the scowlie says, “What?” and housekeeper says for letting her tell Charlie’s mom that the guy she is sleeping with used to be a woman.
This is yet another show I will track – to see if it lives up to the promise of this one that I watched or otherwise.
