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Everyday living combines with friendship, arguments, love, betrayal and despair to become the stuff of a real-life soap opera.
These thoughts buzzed in my brain as I watched the first two episodes of Charlie Sheen’s return to television, a faux-edgy sitcom so unimaginative and dull that it makes Two and a Half Men look like a beacon of artistic integrity. That Anger Management would air in the same two-hour block as FX’s innovative Louie — which I’ll praise in a moment — seems downright perverse, like hanging a Degas next to a Dumpster.
It’s a shame, really. Sheen has sunk so low in the public’s estimation that he could have taken serious artistic risks, failed miserably, and still have won points for trying.
The venue is FX, which built its brand on shows about working-class alpha males flaming out (Rescue Me, Sons of Anarchy, Justified) and middle-class doofuses stumbling toward dignity (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Wilfred, Louie). The star is Sheen, whose long history of carousing, substance abuse, and domestic violence morphed into hellish performance art last year.
After getting fired from Two and a Half Men — not for threatening to stab his wife during a Christmas altercation, mind you, but for publicly insulting his boss, showrunner Chuck Lorre, which in America is the greater crime — Sheen pocketed a fortune and became an icon of nihilistic hedonism.
He staged a “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour and appeared in a Fiat commercial that celebrated him as rakish antihero. No modern celebrity has been so handsomely rewarded for being a douchebag.
Anger Management — about a divorced ex-ballplayer who ruined his career and marriage with rage, then reinvented himself as a therapist — is less a comedy than a low-cost, high-yield investment. Sheen has said this will be his last project before retiring from acting; under an innovative deal, if FX renews Anger Management after ten episodes, it is contractually required to order another 90, which means instant syndication money.
No wonder the show is so unadventurous: Everyone’s afraid of killing the golden goose. Sheen’s Charlie Goodson is the mildest character he’s played in ages, a recovering rageaholic helping patients who haven’t attained his level of enlightenment.
“Anger took away something I really loved, and I’m here to try to keep that from happening to you,” he tells a group that meets in the suburban house that he shares with his teenage daughter, Sam (Daniela Bodabilla).
Everyday living combines with friendship, arguments, love, betrayal and despair to become the stuff of a real-life soap opera.
These thoughts buzzed in my brain as I watched the first two episodes of Charlie Sheen’s return to television, a faux-edgy sitcom so unimaginative and dull that it makes Two and a Half Men look like a beacon of artistic integrity. That Anger Management would air in the same two-hour block as FX’s innovative Louie — which I’ll praise in a moment — seems downright perverse, like hanging a Degas next to a Dumpster.
It’s a shame, really. Sheen has sunk so low in the public’s estimation that he could have taken serious artistic risks, failed miserably, and still have won points for trying.
The venue is FX, which built its brand on shows about working-class alpha males flaming out (Rescue Me, Sons of Anarchy, Justified) and middle-class doofuses stumbling toward dignity (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Wilfred, Louie). The star is Sheen, whose long history of carousing, substance abuse, and domestic violence morphed into hellish performance art last year.
After getting fired from Two and a Half Men — not for threatening to stab his wife during a Christmas altercation, mind you, but for publicly insulting his boss, showrunner Chuck Lorre, which in America is the greater crime — Sheen pocketed a fortune and became an icon of nihilistic hedonism.
He staged a “Violent Torpedo of Truth” tour and appeared in a Fiat commercial that celebrated him as rakish antihero. No modern celebrity has been so handsomely rewarded for being a douchebag.
Anger Management — about a divorced ex-ballplayer who ruined his career and marriage with rage, then reinvented himself as a therapist — is less a comedy than a low-cost, high-yield investment. Sheen has said this will be his last project before retiring from acting; under an innovative deal, if FX renews Anger Management after ten episodes, it is contractually required to order another 90, which means instant syndication money.
No wonder the show is so unadventurous: Everyone’s afraid of killing the golden goose. Sheen’s Charlie Goodson is the mildest character he’s played in ages, a recovering rageaholic helping patients who haven’t attained his level of enlightenment.
“Anger took away something I really loved, and I’m here to try to keep that from happening to you,” he tells a group that meets in the suburban house that he shares with his teenage daughter, Sam (Daniela Bodabilla).