be reuniting.
5. Rebounding
Points: 3
Ashton caps the night on another low point. When he returns (in tears) to his home, he finds Alan's ex-wife Judith. She comforts Walden in his fragile state, but as we've discovered with the self-made millionaire, he's rarely capable of warding off female company. The two hook up...and Jake catches it all on tape. Here's a guarantee this will resurface in future episodes.
The scene's funny enough, but again, Ashton's not bringing anything to the table with the overly emotional Walden. It's not funny that he can't find a way to reconnect with his soul mate. In fact, if there wasn't a laugh track, it would be really, really sad. A show like Louie can straddle the line, but with Two and a Half Men, I'mguessed that, after eight seasons and 177 episodes, Two and a Half Men would be conjuring up controversy, anticipation or excitement. Charlie Sheen's abrupt departure (and subsequent breakdown) was a pop culture nuclear bomb that would have slowly dissipated...had it not been for the high profile replacement search.
Show creator Chuck Lorre is a smart man. He kept the fire burning through his casting quest until he landed on an equally shocking, crazed and hilarious choice: Ashton Kutcher, the man with a zillion Twitter followers.
So after months of reboot momentum, tonight's the night. The big premiere. So the big question is: can Ashton Kutcher fill Charlie Harper's shoes? As a scholar of sitcom science, I'm going to tune in each week to chronicle Ashton's return to primetime, quantifying the