I think the people who talked about Charlie Sheen, especially Jon Cryer, even his recently released drug partner, were quite possibly the most compelling part of this docu-series. I feel for his wives, kids and all the people who dealt with this tsunami of chaos. But this series also has the air of a PR rehab. He has a memoir out - this might help boost sales. Charlie Sheen is certainly charming and engaging but also self serving - in a sense. In another sense, he is still his own worst enemy - he doesn't seem to face what is apparently mental illness. What was behind all this? He is right in that he has a constitution most people don't but some of what he says about it still sounds like bragging.And there are serious issues that are not addressed deeply enough: Corey Haim, the fact that Sheen did not reveal his HIV status for years until he was forced to. I admired his work in Platoon and Wall Street. They showed he has really acting chops. But Two and a Half Men felt like he was playing himself: a hard-partying, charmingly self-destructive womanizer. It was funny and compelling, even though it was misogynistic and misguided. Was this a person to be admired? This series shows, of course, that you can have "everything:" money, fame, women (even if you pay for them), talent, admiration, people who stick by you and still treat it all, especially yourself, like garbage. Good on him for his sobriety. I wish him and his nothing but the best.
I think Charlie Sheen does have acting chops/