Comments on: In defence of Two and a Half Men

By: Nathan

Nathan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:35:28 +0000

Wow I just read Catherine Deveny, she really needs to get rid of this feminist point of view and wake up. Has she ever watched Sex and the City or Desperate Housewives. Oh no because it has women as the characters, she doesnt see fit to attack it., the chacters in both those shows are just like Charlie and Alan.

By: Birddoggy

Birddoggy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:27:22 +0000

Life imitates art… This is the same dilemma Andy Millman goes through with his show in The Extras.

By: Bazza

Bazza — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:55:11 +0000

I always enjoy these threads… The irony is exquisite. People herding around their standard, being so pretentious and lofty, denouncing what they see as low-brow entertainment, then, in the same breath, citing reality tv or soap operas (which includes the current spate of us cop shows) as a shining example of what the proletariat should watch. It’s truly priceless, keep it up, it’s more amusing than anything on the box.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:09:00 +0000

stevie, your life is edgy so you don’t want edgy TV, just pedestrian, production-line garbage?

By: Chloe

Chloe — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:22:08 +0000

I’d rather remember Jon Cryer as Duckie.

By: stevie g

stevie g — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:15:56 +0000

I read the Catherine Deveny article that was linked. Horrible reading. Totally Vile.

By: Grinspoon

Grinspoon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:53:01 +0000

To me it just seems forced and easy. I have barely watched it though. A little bit too obvious in the jokes and the approach to saying punchlines and pausing for laughs bugs me. Great audience sitcoms only ever have really had a pause when it’s really funny. The spontaneous pauses. Not structured as someone says a line, setting up the next person who says a the punch line and everyone pause for laugh.

One thing that may make me re-consider, I used to lump How I Met Your Mother into the same category as this for lame us sitcoms. However after having little else to watch on a plane last year, it’s now one of my favourites. Although that’s partly because of the characters coming from an identifiable place, 2.5m doesn’t seem to have that. So I would not say I could honestly truly rule it out as being terrible, I have just seen little to make me sit down to watch whole episodes. Always something I am generally a fan of comedies that are the snob ones. Love curb, it’s always sunny ect.

FYI Funniest show on tv is, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”

By: KFed

KFed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:39:53 +0000

Catherine Deveny ‘s article is completely miopic. Yes, the female characters are caricatures – so are the men!
The story is seemingly written from the viewpoint that while the women on Two And A Half Men are all two dimensional bimbos, somehow the men are well-rounded, if immoral, role models. That is ridiculous. All of the characters on this show are vile, that’s exactly the joke.

By: pietro

pietro — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:29:40 +0000

As usual, Catherine Deveny has it right.

By: franz chong

franz chong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:24:53 +0000

It is a great show providing you have not seen the episodes a million times over to Death but having said that Nine are butchering the show to death.This was originally supposed to seen as filler for the summer while Temptation was off the air but now it is their 7pm offering.

What would Kerry Packers thought from beyond the grave be about that?

By: stevie g

stevie g — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:57:58 +0000

It astounds me how many people don’t think this show is funny. I think it is quite hilarious. It has well rounded and relatable characters. I laugh at almost every joke no matter how many times I’ve seen it. I particularly love the third season when Alan is going out with the girl in her early 20s. The favorite episode being where Charlie hooks up with her mother and Alan’s ex hooks up with her father.
I think it is, and will be a classic , in the way that other sitcoms that never won awards were. Like Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Brady Buch, Gilligans Island. Also as far as the “artistic” shows, I’d rather watch 2.5 men than watch the edgier cable shows the critics like. My life is edgie enough. Is Tara even a comedy?

By: David Knox

David Knox — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:55:19 +0000

Age columnist Catherine Deveny also has an article on the show's merits.... or lack thereof....

By: critic

critic — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:19:11 +0000

I love this show but enough of the repeats

By: John

John — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:05:20 +0000

One of the worst shows on TV now and absurdly it’s successful. As Mac put it, agonizingly unfunny.

I suspect this show is actual funded by the pentagon and used in the torture of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.

A show entirely reliant on a laugh track and idiots.

By: vinny aka tvaddict0909

vinny aka tvaddict0909 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:01:11 +0000

I think Big Bang Theory is a lot better and created by the same people.

By: Reubot

Reubot — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:23:08 +0000

I am sure that when the show is finished, it’ll probably be forgotten, just like other high rating, but lowbrow sitcoms such as The Nanny or Married With Children.