Anger Management is about a former baseball player whose career was ended by anger issues and who in turn became a therapist. Anger Management is about the motley group of ragers and court-remanded cases who meet for group sessions in his office. Anger Management is about a divorced man trying to maintain his relationship with his daughter and stay on reasonable terms with his ex-wife.
I’m on vacation starting Thursday through next week, but fear not: my colleagues at TIME Entertainment will continue plugging away in my absence, and I’ve armed your friendly android overlord Robo-James with a few posts to put up in my absence. (You can also find me blathering away, as usual, on Twitter, though a higher proportion of my tweets may be about the fine rest stops of the ohio Turnpike.) Please don’t set off any Fourth of July fireworks in his vicinity—you don’t want to set off his automatic perimeter defenses—and I’ll see you back here July 9.
Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next season’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so let’s get on with…
The Show: Vegas, CBS