‘Two and a Half Men’ season 12, episode 11 review: Can’t Walden have a few friends?

For some reason, it was only during tonight’s new episode of “Two and a Half Men” that we started to really notice a few things when it comes to the final season as a whole. For one, where in the world is Amber Tamblyn, and why did we dispatch of Jenny so quickly? What about Evelyn? Also, is there a woman who is endgame for Walden here? For a while, we thought it was Kate.

Tonight, the focus was on a different sort of issue, but one that we are not surprised that Ashton Kutcher’s character has: He feels smothered at home, given that he is forced to spend the vast majority of his time around someone in Alan who can be easily very irritating. This is why he decided to join a group of parents of adopted children, and tried to find some other people to relate to. For the most part, we’d say that he at least got a few things out of this experience, and mostly a knowledge of how to deal with Alan better.

In the end, though, this was not a particularly great episode of the show. These guys were mostly hokey and not very funny, and nothing really happened to push the primary story better. Alan and Walden have had these fights since the first moment that they knew each other, so seeing them here was really no different.

In the end, this one is going to be an also-ran on the way to the finale. We didn’t hate all of it, but we are certainly not going to remember anything that happened here within the next few weeks. Grade: C-.

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