They lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, "I can't process it." Well, no, you never will. Just stop trying. Sit back and enjoy the show.
Sheen offered the networks what they only wish their reality shows could be: an apparently unfiltered study of an outsized life. Like an oracle of late capitalism, he seemed to speak prophecy from across the immeasurable divide of wealth and fame. Now actually unfiltered, shot on digital video, with no straight man in sight, Sheen just looks like a douche. Let us mourn the extinguishing of the flame.
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