The spinoff premieres today (July 23) on HBO Max or whatever they’re calling it now. New episodes will be every Thursday.
The first episode is “Spoiler: Gary Dies.”
I had know idea what to expect from this. The article that I read emphasized that the name of the show is “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe” so perhaps he’ll try over and over and keep failing.
Stuart and Bert are in a post apocalyptic Earth complete with zombies, giant people-eating moths and dimensional rifts that are handy for disposing bodies.
I won’t go into the details of the episode but I was surprised to see Raj. I hadn’t heard that he was involved. Kripke and Denise will obviously be central characters.
Overall, I was pleased with it. It is nothing like BBT. I’ll keep watching for now.
A little pre-release discussion of it starting here
That’s nothing.
When I was 11, I wrote a series of short stories (with, I’m sure lots of sentences beginning with “because”) about a family of five brothers and sisters struggling to stay together as a family unit after their parents were killed by a drunk driver. Two older brothers, a sister, almost a teen, a brother about 8, and a sister about 3. Even had the part about the youngest brother setting up a tent in order to have some space of his own.
I am not making any of this up.
I invented this all in 1978. I wrote about a dozen stories from 5 to 12 pages each. (I was kind of a precocious writer, and had been writing fiction since I was about 8-- just 2 or 3 pages at a time at first. I wrote poetry when I was 5. Had a whole notebook full of it by age 8.)
Anyway, after about a year of writing stuff about this family of five kids, I decided it was far-fetched, and kinda stupid, and put it away. I don’t know what eventually happened to it. I assume it got tossed along with a lot of other “junk” from my room after I moved out and my parents saw the opportunity for separate bedrooms.
When I saw the promos for “Party of Five” what must have been 30 years later, whatever I was eating turned to ash in my mouth.
I have no insider knowledge to back this up, but I suspect every one of the original cast will show up in at least one episode, even Kaley Cuoco. They’ll start with the obviously available and easy to court ones like Mayim Bialik and Melissa Rauch, but eventually go through them all. That’s my guess, anyway.
That seems likely. Perhaps the big stars like Jim Parsons appear in the holiday episodes?
And it’s a little weird that this is on HBO MAX while the two previous spin-offs are on the CBS broadcast network. According to Wikipedia this was developed at HBO Max, so perhaps it was never even offered to CBS?
And it does give the secondary characters and actors from The Big Bang Theory a chance to lead a show, and presumably get better money.
I can only imagine your reaction when you saw the promos for On Our Own.
The series centers on the Jerrico family, consisting of seven brothers and sisters in the O’Fallon Park neighborhood of St. Louis. Six months prior to the series, a car crash killed both their parents. Since then, they have been raised by the eldest brother, Josh (Harris).
I particularly like what they’re doing with Bert’s character, which is a giant leap from TBBT. I’ll say no more except that I am very satisfied with the first episode.
I found a sort-of answer elsewhere. Various actors in secondary roles from The Big Bang Theory will appear on the show although not necessarily as the same characters. I haven’t found any information on which of the remaining main cast will appear. Ideally, any such appearance would be kept secret so it’s a surprise.