‘Two and a Half Men’ to feature gay adoption storyline
By Josh Haggis
US sitcom Two and a Half Men is to feature a gay adoption storyline in its final season.
The upcoming storyline on the long-running CBS show will show central character Walden (Ashton Kutcher) proposing to raise a child with Alan (Jon Cryer), while going through an “existential crisis,” reports The Wire.
“Walden [Kutcher] is going to have a major health scare, and it is going to give him a little bit of an existential crisis,” CBS president Nina Tassler told reporters. “And he wants to find a way to add more meaning to his life, so he decides he wants to adopt a child.”
She continued: “In doing so, he starts the process and realises it’s very difficult to adopt a child as a single, straight man. So once and for all he decides: ‘I’m going to propose to Alan [Cryer], and we’re going to get married and adopt a child as a gay couple.’ That’s just going to start the season on Two and a Half Men, and I think we’re off for a great run.”
A spokesperson for US LGBT charity GLAAD has since responded to the news, urging CBS and Two and a Half Men producers to depict the “greater scrutiny” faced by same-sex couples in the adoption process, as well as “the progress made in acceptance of gay and lesbian couples”.
Two and a Half Men debuted in 2003 and went on to become one of the highest-rated sitcoms in the US. It 12th and final season will premiere on CBS in the Autumn. The show airs on Comedy Central in the UK.
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