Anger Management: Volume Three

Were you upset when Charlie Sheen was fired Two and a Half Men? If so, you should be watching Anger Management, on which he basically plays the same guy as far as I'm concerned, which probably explains why I didn't like this show either.

The confusing part of this is that I'm reviewing Volume Three of the series, which isn't Season Three. It isn't even something only mildly dumb like the second half of Season Two. Season One was Season One, then Volume Two was 22 episodes from Season Two, and now Volume Three is 24 episodes of Season Two, but Season Two is only supposed to have 44 episodes according to Wikipedia, so there are extra episodes, or maybe repeats - I don't know, I don't have Volume Two. But episode 57 of Season Two just aired, so I guess Season Two is going to go on forever. Whatever.

Anyway, so the show is about Charlie, played by Charlie, who used to be a baseball player until his temper caused him to break a bat over his knee resulting in a career ending injury. He went back to school and is now an Anger Management therapist or coach or something. He has an ex-wife, a kid, and runs a group therapy session. And way more than half of the 24 episodes in Volume Three are about Charlie sleeping with hot chicks and then breaking up with them.

The truth is, the show isn't completely terrible. If you remove Charlie from it there is some good stuff there that a show could be built around and be very funny. And it is often funny, when dealing with stories that don't involve Charlie. But everything involving him is usually about him trying, and too often succeeding, to get into some girl's pants. He's a letch. And worse, many of his episodes focus on him learning something, which he promptly forgets the next time he wants to get in some woman's bed.

It doesn't help that Charlie Sheen isn't a very good actor. Or maybe he is, but he just acts like this all the time in his personal life too. There appears to be little difference between him on the show and him doing interviews off the show. And muddying the waters is his father, Martin Sheen, who plays he father on the show.

Maybe that's the joke. Maybe none of this is fictional. Maybe Anger Management is a reality show, and Charlie Sheen is actually a therapist now and he's helping other actors with their issues.

I plowed through 24 episodes of Anger Management in order to write this review, and unless I'm unlucky enough to get Volume Four to review at some point in the future, this is the last of this show I'm likely to ever watch.