Mark our words, when the new season of Two and A Half Men premieres in a couple of weeks, that’s all anyone is going to talk about for at least three solid days. All the jibber-jabber around the water cooler will be about Ashton Kutcher and Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer and all the craziness of the that first episode.
Jon Cryer is actually starting to open up a bit more about the season and what it’s like working for with Ashton. He wouldn’t give too much away as far as upcoming plots on the show – even their studio audiences had to sign nondisclosure agreements – but he did address the big elephant in the room – Charlie’s death. How’s that handled in the opening episode. He explains:
“This show has never had an ounce of sentimentality; it├óΓé¼Γäós not what we do. There was a moment in the first season where we tried it, then we realized, no, that doesn├óΓé¼Γäót work. This is [handled] with that same lack of sentimentality. Any concerns I had about it were completely washed away by the studio audience we had ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ which signed nondisclosure agreements ├óΓé¼ΓÇ¥ and had a terrific reaction to it.”
Let’s hope America shares that reaction.
But what about the rest of the season? Will Charlie still be an ever present figure in the makeup of the show or should we all just write him off like Chuck Lorre did? Jon answers:
“The history of the show does not go away at all. It will be dealt with all through the first season. It├óΓé¼Γäós not, ‘Oh, that character├óΓé¼Γäós gone, let├óΓé¼Γäós forget completely about him.’ There will be ramifications all through the season. We├óΓé¼Γäóre not taking this into a new universe where the first show didn├óΓé¼Γäót exist.”
Smart. You don’t want to alienate your audience right up front like that. Hopefully, if there is reverence to Charlie (even when there really isn’t any), the people who liked him will stick around.
What do U think? After everything U’ve heard, will U be tuning in to the first episode back?
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