I like men. Love some of them too. Some I despise. Others I don’t bother about. For the rest, I maintain my prejudices. With the Harper’s , as the phrase goes, I have done it all, didn’t bother , then liked, then hated, then loved , laughed, and slept, as I finally got bored of them all!
6 seasons forward, I am not claiming myself to be an expert on the series, and this might not be a complete and objective and critical and analysis of the series; just a blog to bitch about the banality of it.
A person grows in a breakup or ruins himself, Allen harper, lives in a Malibu beach house, gets himself a hooker when bored. His failure is perennial. Divorced Allen, Allen living in his brother’s house, Allen with no money, Allen not ‘getting any’, chiropractor Allen, oh give me a break. Or give me more punches in the show.
Jake Harper, I had really believed would grow up and bring some sort of spark to the show. But no, if any man, i.e. a jerk with a penis as they have defined it, is worth glorifying, it’s Charlie Harper only. It does show utter lack of creativity on the part of show makers, that they have totally wasted the half man’s angle. I mean yes, a dumb farting glutton teenager is funny, but more so is a Jake grown up to be charming Charlie’s dates away from him. Point being, looser is funny, but not every time!
The endless series of blondes in the show suck, Evelyn Harper is repeatedly ignored, called “soulless” and “not nurturing”, oh well, please check how nurturing these guys are to Jake, anyways, so the same striped coffee mugs, even the breakfast table conversation is same; it’s like watching the same episode again and again, sometimes even the dialogues and the phrases used are the same, the only variety being in the design of the negligees of the blondes.
The hedonist lifestyle of Charlie is supposed to be the backbone of the show, so it’s about a lot of action, but then just sex it is. Unless you really are showing something, tell me what should I watch for on the show, and how hilarious should I find the contrast between a Charlie, sapped of his bodily fluids and an Allen, making himself a cup of hot chocolate on a Saturday night.
Apparently Charlie dying in the coming seasons will be a big twist in the show. I hope Ashton Kutcher brings more to the show than his looks and “you know what”. Awwmen.
#4?? Impressive! :)
ReplyDeleteTheoretically, I could simply reverse all these reasons and build a case for why guys hate Twilight. (No negligees, no focus on blondes, and no one getting any throughout the series). Oi, I think I just did so.
P.S.: Guys love the show too much to care about trivial things like story, plot and who plays the main character. Deal with it. Just like we deal with Twilight.
P.P.S. : Getting some, by definition, does not include cases where couples get pregnant and/or nearly die in the process.
You blog eh? Entertaining read. But really, aren't the different negligees enough? ;) Although I agree with your view to a large extent, I believe that some sitcoms should be exactly this way!
ReplyDeleteYou know why men like to sit and home and watch Test cricket on Television? - It's because nothing gives man more satisfaction than 'nothing'! So, sometimes even such humdrum humour about erectile dysfunction can get us laughing :)
@Ahuja, Thank you! First things first, I do not like Twilight. And you are right, getting some does not include dying in the process, its getting too much that killed him!
ReplyDeleteP.S Keep them counting :P :D
@Anirudh, Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Its a kind of myth breaker to know that test matches are watched for nothing....I thought it was all about having very pro and passionate discussions like how useless is Harbhajan as a bowler when he is hitting centuries :D