Speaking on Thursday at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour, CBS Entertainment chairman Nina Tassler told reporters following her executive session that the season 12 story will kick off with Walden (Ashton Kutcher) experiencing a health scare that will lead him to what she called an "existential crisis."
"He wants to find a way to add more meaning to his life so he decides he wants to adopt a child and in doing so, he starts the process and realizes that it's very difficult to adopt a child as a single, straight man," Tassler said. "So once and for all he decides, 'I'm going to propose to Alan [Jon Cryer] and we're going to get married and adopt a child as a gay couple."
She called the story a "great ride," and said that she views the storyline a "very positive statement" about the wave of gay rights that are becoming more commonplace across the country and that she's not worried about any sort of blowback from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
"I think it's a very positive statement that, you know what, I am going to adopt a child as a gay couple and the reality is, he can do that," she told THR. "And in a universe where at one point you couldn't do that and now you can do that, I think that's a much more positive statement that he's making."
"He wants to find a way to add more meaning to his life so he decides he wants to adopt a child and in doing so, he starts the process and realizes that it's very difficult to adopt a child as a single, straight man," Tassler said. "So once and for all he decides, 'I'm going to propose to Alan [Jon Cryer] and we're going to get married and adopt a child as a gay couple."
She called the story a "great ride," and said that she views the storyline a "very positive statement" about the wave of gay rights that are becoming more commonplace across the country and that she's not worried about any sort of blowback from the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
"I think it's a very positive statement that, you know what, I am going to adopt a child as a gay couple and the reality is, he can do that," she told THR. "And in a universe where at one point you couldn't do that and now you can do that, I think that's a much more positive statement that he's making."
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Okay, this sounds extremely stupid but I am here for it if Alan/Walden fall in love for real. I haven't watched the show in forever but I shipped them a lot when I did.
ReplyDeleteI just... Hmm.
ReplyDeleteHahahahahahaaha. Nice one. I love this show they really found their groove in S11. It will never be like before but they reached a really high level with the introduction of Jenn and Barry. Hopefully both will be part of S12.
ReplyDeleteOk if this is true i'm definitely not watching.
ReplyDeleteOooookay. That's...a really strange decision.
ReplyDeleteLOL, I thought this was a joke when I first read it, but it seems like it's really going to happen.
ReplyDeleteNever thought about 2.5 men ending like this, but I'm ok with it, if anything it will make things interested and I may watch the show again just to see what they do with it. It could be the very first time 2.5 men actually does a positive statement about something and it's a good way to go
Sounds a lot like "this is the last season anyway so lets just do something ridiculous, it's not we can get cancelled anyway."
ReplyDeleteI read a tweet about this and thought the guy was joking. This just sounds awful.
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. lol
ReplyDeleteJenny's still gonna be around. Dunno about Barry though...
ReplyDeleteErm... I'm gonna withhold my judgement for now, but it kinda sounds like they're trying to be positive about LGBT+ community and rights by having two straight men pretend to be gay so that they could adopt a child (due to a wave of psotivity towards gay couples adopting?). I'm not sure how I feel about this one.
ReplyDeleteI'm... I'm just at loss of words. The show has completely lost its shit.
ReplyDeleteThis show went on a downward spiral the moment Charlie Sheen was out!!!
ReplyDeleteGood thing I stopped watching this crap after Charlie Sheen left.
ReplyDeleteI don't think straight people pretending to be gay is doing the LGBT-community any favours, but like you, I'll withhold my judgement until the storyline has played out.
ReplyDeleteWhether this storyline is going to suck creatively or not (I'm leaning towards suckage), I think it was a mistake for Nina Tassler to a) make an assumption that nobody would find fault with this type of story (because noooobody expresses a negative opinion ever these days) and b) point to this story in defense of the network's diversity ("See, we're doing a gay-themed adoption story...with two straight guys!").
ReplyDeleteSince when does Two and a Half Man care about offending people? The show is offensive on many levels. It's funny but it doesn't seem to care if it offends anyone.
ReplyDeleteTrue, but still this? Even for Two and A Half Men this is bad.
ReplyDeleteSounds fun as long as not extend the all season.
ReplyDeleteCould not have put it more articulately than that o.O
ReplyDeleteI now pronounce you Chuck and Larry?
ReplyDeleteTwo people pretending to be a gay couple and scamming the system to adopt. How exactly is this "very positive statement" for gay rights?
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