Two and a Half Men (2003 - Present): Review By Corey

As of right now CBS may have grasped their number #1 sitcom back from lockdown and are finally back in action with it! For months now, Two and a Half Men has returned with its ninth season, but without their number #1 lead Charlie Sheen. How does a show continue without the main attraction? As long as CBS was continuing to make profit off the series, they honestly didn't care. Questions surpassed the internet and rumors rummaged over who would be replacing Sheen. Word on the internet was that Full House star John Stamos would be filling in Sheen's shoes. Finally, it all came down to one man...Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher was hired to replace Sheen and questions from fans all over wondered if he'd be playing Sheen's character or playing someone completely different.

Finally, the questions were all wrapped up and people were told that Kutcher would lead the show, but as a completely different and fresh character. While some were excited, others were completely against the idea. How would the show work with a new character? What would happen to Charlie? What about Alan and Jake? How in hell would a new character work?

The show made their ways to jump around the clichés and make everything work as simply as possible. In an American sitcom where characters become loved by audiences, everyone's favorite Charlie was killed off in a train accident. So, we pretty much watched and loved this character for eight years only for him to die tragically in a random train accident? Oh...alright. Here's my favorite part! When Alan and Jake plan to move out of Charlie's beach house, since there is no way in hell that Alan could ever afford it, a suicidal billionaire is saved by Alan, and of course, the two become friends.

Meet Walden! Walden, played quite funny by Kutcher, is a depressed billionaire who refuses a divorce from his wife. When Alan saves him and wakes him up out of his depressive state, Walden decides to move on from his wife, Bridget, and to start off he decides to buy Charlie's beach house. When he buys the house, he allows Alan to stay there for some time until he is ready to find a new place. Walden is a really nice guy in the show, but he's goofy and completely stupid. Alan pretty much takes advantage of this and allows himself to live with Walden, mind you; Walden is a stranger to Alan. Walden just decides to allow a stranger to let his seventeen year old kid stay at the house over the weekends? If I was a grown man, 1) I would not let a stranger live with me and 2) If I did, I wouldn't let his kid come over whenever he wanted to.

Clearly, these new plot-twists had their flaws. Alan and Jake still get to stay at the beach-house, which is now owned by an idiotic billionaire. Over the months, we have been able to see the friendship between Alan and Walden grow, so the realism of Alan and Walden living together is starting to make a little more sense. I think the show would of worked better if Walden invited Alan to live with him now. Maybe for the past few months Alan could have lived with his mother and still been friends with Walden. The two just starting to live with each other from the start was silly and ridiculous beyond belief.

No need to worry though. The starting mess of this new story-twist is over and the show is now at a point where it's great again! You know that Walden and Alan live together, and the two will face different comedic situations in every episode! All of Walden's boring divorce depression is gone, and finally the show can look past from its messy start and only get better.

While I have found myself laughing hysterically for the past five or six episodes, last night's more recent episode gave me clearance that Walden is an excellent character, one better than Charlie ever was. Kutcher is hilarious in the role, and his sweet and tender relationship with his new British girlfriend Zoe is almost as sweet and exciting as Ross and Rachel were in friends. To be quite honest, Two and a Half Men should come to a close soon. Think about it, Jake is almost eighteen years old. He isn't half a man anymore. I saw wrap the show up this May and give Walden and Zoe a damn spin-off show THIS fall!

Giving Walden a spin-off could be as successful as Frasier was. It could last many years because Walden has already proved himself as a fine leading character. Jake and Alan could still appear in the show as well, even as main characters. The title of the show, "Two and a half Men" just doesn't fit anymore. Season 10 should never happen, but instead start a new series called "Walden", but with the same exact model. Have the show be the way it is now, and if CBS were smart, they'd do this because that could buy them another five or six years with Alan, Jake, and their new star Walden.

I say do it..

Thanks for the read!

-Written by Corey Wood