Tag / Two and a Half Men

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Post Mortem – The Crazy Ones

the-crazy-ones-5240836e03383Last fall, CBS made a big push on The Crazy Ones, featuring the television return of Robin Williams as an ad executive.  Sarah Michelle Gellar was also on board as Williams’ daughter and business partner.  After debuting as the fall’s highest rated premiere, the ratings quickly dropped as the show tried to find its footing.  Which, in my opinion, it eventually did.  While it wasn’t the best show, I certainly found it enjoyable.

CBS, however, felt otherwise.  The first chink in the armor came in February, when the show lost its timeslot to the over-the-hill Two and a Half Men.  Finally, in a surprising move, CBS pulled the plug in May.  Between Williams and Gellar, the network was expecting a break out hit.  What they got instead was a steady, if unspectacular, performer, which will not be given the chance to build upon its improving first season.

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Post Mortem – Happy Endings

happy-endings-abcEvery year there is that one show that you enjoy so much that you can’t understand why nobody else is watching it and you hope and pray that it doesn’t get cancelled and then it does.  This year’s version of that show is Happy Endings, one of many faux-Friends type ensemble shows that debuted in the spring of 2011 and the only one worthy of the comparison.  I am not ashamed to say that I probably missed a third of the jokes in this show over the years, and that’s because they came at you so fast and sometimes with so little fanfare that they were easy to miss while you were still laughing at the previous one.

There was a brief moment of hope where it looked like the show would be saved by another network, but, alas, it was not to be.  Meanwhile, Two and a Half Men is preparing for its 11th season.  Seems reasonable.