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‘Two and a Half Men’ to Scout Gay Adoption in Final Season
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Chuck Lorre is prepared to explore lgbtq+ adoption in the final season of CBS’ Two and a Half Men.
Speaking on Thursday at the Television Critics Association’s summer insist tour, CBS Show chairman Nina Tassler told reporters accompanying 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.”
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“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 hard 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 toddler as a lgbtq+ couple.”
She called the story a “great ride,” and said that she views the storyline as a “very positive statement” about the wave of same-sex attracted rights that are bec
In November last year, controversial sitcom Two and a Half Men staged a gay wedding between its two male leading heterosexual characters, Walden (Ashton Kutcher) and Alan (Jon Cryer).
The marriage was effectively a scheme devised to allow the pair to adopt and raise a young male child after the characters realised it's "very difficult to adopt a child as a single, linear man" -- even for a billionaire like Walden.
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The show copped a lot of criticism over the move, with many believing the move trivialised the fight for marriage equality (it's legal in California, where the show takes place).
Critics also suggested the plot desexualised same-sex attracted love - an observation that wasn't helped when the two characters agreed, "we will actually be a same-sex married couple and like most married couples, we will not have sex."
The show's producer, Chuck Lorre (who is also the man behind other sitcoms like The Large Bang Theory and Mom), says they never intended to be disrespectful.
Related: Ashton and Charlie build 'Two Last summer, when Chuck Lorre announced there would be a homosexual marriage on the closing season of his long-running CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, a predictable uproar ensued. The problem was that the union involved two heterosexual men—original co-star Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen’s replacement, Ashton Kutcher—undergoing what Lorre openly called a “scam” marriage in order to adopt a child, a process the show suggested was next to unworkable for a straight, unpartnered man, even a billionaire like Kutcher’s character, Walden Schmidt. Although the show has generally taken the below average road in its 12 years on the atmosphere, Lorre made an try to avoid offense with this storyline—by Two and a Half Men standards at least. As when the show introduced a lesbian character in 2013 and when it explored a transsexual storyline that same year, the writers for the most part avoided the kind of cheap humor that permeates the rest of the show. When Walden proposed to Cryer’s Alan Harper back in November, he told him he had “nine of the 10 things” he wanted in a wife. However, the 10th ingredient was off the table: “We will actually be — -- Two people will tie the knot during the 12th and concluding season of CBS' "Two and a Half Men," and you may be surprised who they are and why they're getting married. CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler confirmed to ABC News that Ashton Kutcher's nature Walden will pop the question to Jon Cryer's Alan. Tassler confirmed that Walden will have a health scare that causes him to make the commitment. Mila Kunis Reveals Plans to Have Organic Birth "Walden, in having kind of an existential crisis, he has a near-death experience and he is evaluating the meaning of being. He wants to adopt a kid and it is particularly challenging to do so as a single male. So he decides that he and Alan should acquire married and they will adopt a child as a gay couple," Tassler said Thursday, while at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills. ABC News asked Tassler whether there has been any discussion regarding bringing back former star Charlie Sheen for the show's swan song. She simply answered, "Not at this moment, no." Sheen lef
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