License to Dive: 'The Two Coreys'

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IN THE MID-'80S, it was hard to find cooler big-screen kids than Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. "The Lost Boys," "License to Drive," "Dream a Little Dream" — their flicks just radiated an impossible-to-reach hipness that even the most popular kids in high school couldn't reach.

Which is why seeing the two of them bicker in couples counseling is such compelling television.

Their reality show, "The Two Coreys" on A&E, kicked off its second season a couple of weeks ago, but it's not too late to catch up. In the episode that's online now, Corey and Corey spar over the state of their friendship, make veiled references to apparent molestation in each of their pasts and then attend a quirky therapy session in which the therapist likens their friendship to a marriage, saying "I know that best friends come together for very similar reasons."

What would Dinger say?

A note about the show's content: Its reality isn't entirely real. Said Feldman in a joint interview with Haim last year for Entertainment Weekly: "It's not a typical reality show, for the record. A lot of it is very suggested and set up, but the emotions that are conveyed in a lot of it are very real."

Which would be why they were doing a pleasant interview together to promote a show that ends with a vicious friendship-shattering fight. But who would know better than the Coreys that the viewing public has an insatiable appetite for watching celebrities implode?

So is "The Two Coreys" a true tale of wayward friends who try to come to terms with a present filled with acrimony and a past tinged with substance abuse? Or is it a shrewd continuing re-introduction by two guys who went away for a while, but never forgot how to play the Hollywood game?

Tough to tell. But it sure is watchable.