Yet after watching multiple episodes, it’s easy to see why it’s so popular - and why I kept going to the next episode immediately after one ended. This compulsion makes me more familiar with Two and a Half Men than the vast majority of detractors who endlessly poke fun at its awfulness. Anytime I’ve come close was due less to humor and more to patent absurdity: a CSI crossover episode, or a visit from Chuck Lorre’s other creations Dharma and Greg. It’s the only comedy series that I’ve watched where I never - not even once - laughed at a single joke. Since then, I’ve watched every new episode on a weekly basis - it’s actually been kind of nice knowing that I can easily predict what the lowest 22 minutes of my week will be.
In 2008, while sick in bed, I made the fever-delirious mistake of watching the first few episodes and spent the following week watching five seasons.
And I was one of them.Īs something of a defense: I have a compulsion when it comes to television, an obsessive nature where I have to finish every show that I start watching or else I feel a constant itch that I can’t reach. Who’s watching a despised program that is aggressively redundant and gleefully misogynistic, and just churned out a final season that is basically one 16-episode-long gay joke? As it turns out, millions and millions of people watched. But it’s also one of the most popular comedies on any broadcast network, ranking in the top 20 for its first 10 seasons. It’s universally despised by culture critics, and the easiest of punch lines to jokes about the worst of television.
It’s a sitcom that is simple but never makes any sense. Since 2003, it has transformed from Two and a Half Men to Two and a Half Different Men to Two Men and a Kid Who Skypes From the Military to Two Men and a Random Lesbian to, finally, Two Straight Men Who Are Married to Each Other. It’s fair to say that the most impressive feat Two and a Half Men pulled off is that it existed for so long: 12 seasons and 262 episodes, from Charlie Sheen to Ashton Kutcher, with a little bit of Amber Tamblyn thrown in.
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