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Anger Management (TV series)

Anger Management is an American television multi-camera sitcom created by Bruce Helford that premiered on FX on June 28, 2012.[1] The series is loosely based on the 2003 film of the same title and stars Charlie Sheen in a variation of the Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson film.[2][3] The series received 5.74 million viewers in its debut, breaking the record as the most-watched sitcom premiere in US cable television history.[4][5] On November 7, 2014, FX announced that the series would end after its 100th episode, which aired on December 22, 2014.

Anger Management

"Anger Management Theme" by Raney Shockne

Raney Shockne

United States

English

2

  • Michael Loftus
  • Daniel Dratch
  • Kent Zbornak

  • Peter Smokler (season 1)
  • Hunt Hibler (season 2)

John Fuller

21–22 minutes

FX

June 28, 2012 (2012-06-28) â€“
December 22, 2014 (2014-12-22)

Premise[edit]

The series revolves around Charlie Goodson (Sheen), a one-time minor league baseball player who struggled to take the next step because of his recurring anger issues. Thanks to a therapist, Dr. Kate Wales (Selma Blair), Charlie was able to get his issues under control and finally make it to the major leagues. But he had a relapse during a big league game, breaking a bat over his knee in anger and causing a career-ending injury.


The incident inspired Charlie to return to school and become an anger management therapist. Charlie is divorced from his former wife Jennifer (Shawnee Smith), on whom he cheated multiple times during his baseball-playing days. The two still see a lot of each other because they share joint custody of their teenage daughter Sam (Daniela Bobadilla), who has obsessive-compulsive disorder.


Charlie has a complicated relationship with Kate, who is not only his therapist, but also his "sex buddy". He holds regular group sessions for court-directed anger-management patients in his home, and also does group sessions at an area prison.[6]

as Dr. Charles "Charlie" Goodson, a former professional baseball player turned anger-management therapist.[7]

Charlie Sheen

as Dr. Kate Wales, Charlie's ex–therapist colleague and casual sex partner. (episodes 1–52)

Selma Blair

as Jennifer Goodson, Charlie's ex-wife.[note 1]

Shawnee Smith

as Sam Goodson, Charlie and Jennifer's teenage daughter. (episodes 1–52, 54, 57 and 63)

Daniela Bobadilla

as Lacey Patel, Charlie's spoiled, shallow, destructive & violent anger-management patient.

Noureen DeWulf

as Patrick, Charlie's homosexual passive-aggressive anger-management patient.

Michael Arden

as Nolan Johnson, Charlie's normally unassertive & dismissive anger-management patient.

Derek Richardson

as Ed, Charlie's elderly redneck anger-management patient, who enjoys other people's misery.[8] (episodes 3–100; recurring previously)

Barry Corbin

as Sean Healy, Charlie's nemesis, who has also dated Jennifer. After Jennifer leaves him over his infidelity, Sean and Charlie become friends and tomcat around together. (episodes 45–100; recurring previously)

Brian Austin Green

as Dr. Jordan Denby, a new psychologist and business partner for Charlie. Often Charlie's comic foil, Jordan links up sexually with Sean Healy. She also plays Jordan's identical twin sister, Jessie. (episodes 47–100)[9]

Laura Bell Bundy

Broadcast[edit]

The original broadcast was on the American cable channel FX from June 28, 2012, and was later broadcast in the summer of 2013 by Fox.[1] In Canada, the series premiered on CTV on August 12, 2012.[32][33] New episodes later aired on M3. In the United Kingdom/Ireland it premiered on Comedy Central on September 12, 2012,[34][35] and was later shown on 4Music.[36] Anger Management began airing in Australia on the Nine Network on August 14, 2012, and in New Zealand on TVNZ's TV2 from August 15, 2012.[37][38] The series was in traditional broadcast syndication in the United States from September 2014 until September 2018, distributed by Debmar-Mercury and Twentieth Television.

Reception[edit]

Anger Management received largely negative reviews. Based on 35 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the first season of Anger Management received an average 23% overall "Rotten" score, with an average rating of 5.20/10; the website's consensus states, "Anger Management is aggressively so-so, with thin characters and a few groan-worthy gags for every good one."[39]


Metacritic gave the first season of the show a score of 44 out of 100 based on 33 critics' reviews.[40] Linda Stasi of the New York Post called the series "not so bad", adding "Anger Management is pretty conventional up to and including an idiot laugh track—and a character named Charlie—again. But maybe the familiar is what will keep crazy Charlie [Sheen] from killing himself and others in a blind, drunken, psycho haze on set. Or maybe not."[41] The Wall Street Journal's Nancy DeWolf Smith thought the series was "usually funny, often clever" and added "The accomplishment here is that tight writing and editing, a solid cast with good timing and Mr. Sheen's chops as the ne plus ultra of sitcom performers, make the whole thing feel, if not entirely fresh—then crisp."[42]


Alan Sepinwall of HitFix stated: "Anger Management is Charlie Sheen doing what Charlie Sheen does—on-screen. It's not artful, it's not elegant ... It will likely give his fans what they want. And if there are enough of them to trigger the order for the extra 90 episodes, then FX, Helford and everyone else will feel justified in taking another chance on the guy, despite what happened in the past."[43]


The Huffington Post's Maureen Ryan stated: "despite the careful attention to image enhancement possibilities, the core ugliness and toxic narcissism of 'Anger Management' are impossible to ignore. ... Whoever 'Anger Management' benefits – and it certainly won't be viewers used to FX's usual scripted fare – whole enterprise is really just image management. Nice work if you can get it."[44]

Official website

at IMDb

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