5-sentence review of Anger Management premier on FX

Season 1, Episode 1: “Charlie Goes Back to Therapy”

Episode 2: “Charlie and the Slumpbuster”

5. It turns out Charlie Sheen doesn’t need the other man and a half.

4. Sheen’s new FX show “Anger Management” is more like “The Bob Newhart Show” than his old gig, “Two and a Half Men.”

3. It isn’t as funny as “Newhart” — what is? — but it is already funnier than the ninth season of Sheen’s old show.

2. Sheen plays therapist Charlie Goodson, a former ballplayer with anger management problems turned anger management therapist, who treats a cadre of off-beat characters and deals with his ex-wife Jennifer (Shawnee Smith), his obsessive-compulsive daughter Sam (Daniela Bobadilla) and sleeps with his best friend and his own therapist, Kate (Selma Blair).

1. “Anger Management” is typical set-’em, knock-’em-down sitcom, but it thrives on Sheen’s considerable charm and reminds us of something important: We missed the guy.

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About Daniel P. Finney

A misanthrope, iconoclast and general grouch since the late 1980s, Daniel P. Finney has been a professional paragraph stacker since 1993. He reports. He writes. He blogs. He tweets. He beats deadlines. He amuses (himself, at least.) He informs. He adapts. He keeps moving forward. He eschews gatherings. The highlights of his week are Sunday chicken wings, new comics Wednesday and naps during televised sporting events. He does not wonder if there is a player to be named later in his life and spends most of his waking hours desperately trying to be left alone.

Posted on June 28, 2012, in Popular Culture, Reviews, Television and tagged , , . Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.

  1. There are really some people who will need some anger management therapy because of their brain chemistry. ,

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