One of the best shows on TV today in my opinion that is a “have to see” every week is the comedy called “Two and a Half Men” on Monday nights on CBS. I think it has the perfect blend of different types of humor to appeal to a wide audience.
The show centers around Charlie Sheen’s character, Charlie Harper. He’s a loveable, self-centered, egotistical, womanizer who is highly overpaid and living far too exorbitant a lifestyle for simply writing advertising jingles .
Charlie lives the good life, drinking too much, sleeping with far too many women and generally enjoying himself while living the bachelor life in his beach house on Malibu.
The fun ensues when his brother, Alan, played by Jon Cryer, a straight laced, moral, compulsively neat chiropractor, who is going through a messy divorce asks if he can move in with Charlie “just for awhile” til he gets on his feet.
Add to this, Alan’s son, Jake, played by Angus T. Jones, an overweight, lazy food junkie, who visits his Dad and Uncle Charlie for weekends and school vacations. Suddenly Charlie’s carefree,
sleep til noon, drink brandy for breakfast type of lifestyle is overshadowed with child rearing dilemmas and teenaged angst. It becomes a never ending battle between brothers trying to decide to teach Jake to always take the moral high ground or in the alternative teach Jake how to follow in the footsteps of his favorite (and only) Uncle Charlie who in Jake’s mind is the epitome of everything he hopes he’ll be when he grows up.
You couldn’t have two more opposite brothers if you tried. As uptight, controlled and moral as Alan Harper is, his brother Charlie Harper takes happy go lucky, laid back, cavalier, and irresponsible to whole new levels!
Charlie and Alan Harper have this Mother, played by Holland Taylor, that they both dislike, that is pretty much the only thing these two agree on. She is not the mothering sort at all and she never misses an opportunity to act like a domineering shrew and it’s obvious from the brother’s attitudes about their Mother’s well known sex life that she’s the parent that Charlie must take after.
Alan’s ex-wife, Judith, played by Marin Hinkle,
