Genre:
TV / Comedy
Starring:
Charlie Sheen, Selma Blair, Shawnee Smith, Brian Austin Green
Number
of seasons: 5
Following
his very public meltdown and firing from Two and a Half Men by Chuck Lorre,
Charlie Sheen landed another gig playing the lead role in Anger Management, a
TV series loosely based on the 2003 movie of the same name. In the show, Sheen
plays Charlie Goodson, a former minor league baseball player whose career ended
due to injury after he broke his bat on his knee in anger. Now an anger
management therapist, he tries to help others deal with their own anger issues.
Charlie
Sheen knows the role he played here quite well: Drinking, womanizing, anger,
etc. He does that role like its second nature. His chemistry with Selma Blair
in the early episodes was quite good, it is too bad that relationship soured
off-screen and Blair was dismissed. Sheen never quite found that chemistry
again with Laura Bell Bundy, his second female counterpart in the show.
Brian
Austin Green was a nice surprise as Sean Healy, a character who becomes a
regular in later episodes. Green plays something quite far from his 90210 days,
and he does a good job of it. Shawnee Smith, on the other hand, I found very
aggravating as Charlie’s ex-wife. Something about her voice bothered me. Good
thing we saw less and less of her character as the show went on. They had
gotten the most out of it anyways.
Anger
Management has its moments, but it ended up being very static and repetitive.
The characters of Charlie Goodson’s patients were a little too one-note and
could have been fleshed-out a little more, though the actors involved did their
best with the material they were given. At times, the situations became a
little redundant and lacking in oomph. Nonetheless, this show, which was
broadcasted on FX between 2012 and 2014, manages to offer a good dose of
laughs, in spite of its shortcomings.
Rating:
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