I wonder if Valerie Mahaffy will be a continuing character.
Does anyone remember the six-year-old theater critic that had his own YouTube channel several years ago? That was Iain Armitage who plays Sheldon, a fact that I only found out a few minutes ago.
No, not in the least.
Is it just me or does Zoe Perry’s character look older than the actress is? Lance Barber (Sheldon’s dad) is 45 and looks it. Zoe Perry is 33, and look in her mid-forties.
I stopped watching halfway through. Big yawn.
It wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t great either.
I did like Zoe Perry as Sheldon’s mom, and Sheldon’s father was much more sympathetic than we know from TBBT. The sibling conflicts could be fun, as could Sheldon’s experiences with teachers and students at school. And I loved Jim Parsons’ voiceovers.
There is some potential here, and I’ll watch again.
Freddie will always be the creep, cant except him as a “good” doctor!! :eek::eek:
Just where the heck do these geniuses come from? Outer space?
Maybe they didnt plan on it lasting that long. Look at “The Middle” It started slow (I didnt like it that much) and I didnt think the two oldest kids would ever stay young looking for that long!
Inpatient much? It could have gotten better! :dubious:
I didnt like Big Bang at first.
I knew she’s Jeff Perry’s daughter, but did not know that. Thanks.
I didn’t find it to be very funny. I’ll probably give it one more try and if they don’t pull a rabbit out of the hat, give up on the show.
Chuck Lorre’s greatest talent is creating wonderful ensemble shows. The Big Bang Theory took a while to “get it together.” Initial reviews were “meh.”
I like that the show isn’t only about “young Sheldon.” The scene between George and Georgie was heart warming.
I do think Lorre has come up with another show that is watchable.
A few good things, mostly ho-hum. Hard to understand the dialogue at times.
The usual problems. The voiceover’s lame excuse to explain Sheldon’s accent, for example.
Sheldon on TBBT is repeatedly show to be unable to even open a tool box, let alone build or fix anything. But in that show and now in this one there’s ample proof that the younger version is a major geeky builder.
Prof. Proton returns!
I think it’s best to forget that these two shows are related and just accept as something set in a different universe.
Strange to see such a wide range of opinions.
I watch very little TV, but I thoroughly enjoyed Young Sheldon. It may help that I never was much interested in TBBT, which I never thought had particularly interesting characters or plots, with an overwhelming laugh track suggesting the audience thought that this was the funniest show ever. In any event, that means I’m not aware of any continuity issues. (Maybe they can do a Rick and Morty crossover and declare this to be a parallel universe).
The fact that it has no laugh track is a big improvement, and single camera means they can be more flexible, rather than the standard three-camera organization of setup-joke-big laugh, setup-joke-big laugh, repeat for 22 minutes. Although one drawback for production is that single-camera requires a lot more time than three-camera–in one Lorre interview he says, half-jokingly, they could have filmed two TBBTs in the time it took to film the dinner scene. I also wonder if this will become an issue with child actors, who have limits in how many hours they are allowed to work.
I liked that the kids were fairly realistic, and not your standard sitcom know-it-all kids. Even the east Texas accents seemed realistic as far as I could tell. I’d also like to see a “Young Leonard” episode–maybe we could meet his unusual family at a national science fair.
I couldn’t find Young Sheldon on my Satellite TV Guide for next week. Apparently, Monday night was just a teaser and the 2nd episode is scheduled for Nov 2nd after CBS finishes Thursday Night Football
I thought the networks learned that pulling that sort of shit (airing an episode or two and then none for a month or more, or moving a show all over the schedule) doesn’t help to build an audience. If they’re going to air a show, put on at a given day of the week and time of the day, and then air at least ten or twelve episodes each week (without skipping weeks), perhaps only taking a break for the Christmas holidays.
At the same time, though, plenty of people are like me. I’ll just set the DVR to record all new episodes of a show and then not pay attention at all to when it airs. Instead, I just watch almost everything from DVR.
I enjoyed it. I certainly wouldn’t call it a comedy, maybe a dromedy if they still use that term. When Sheldon took his dad’s hand without the mitten I felt myself starting to tear up…
“Thankfully, we’ll always have Radio Shack!” (or something like that)
Oh, and if anyone is collecting data, I like TBBT too.
I didn’t think Big Bang had a laugh track but rather was filmed before an audience.
I’ve always used the term indiscriminately, whether “canned” laughter is used or it’s a studio audience or whatnot. Do most people make a distinction here? To me, there’s shows without any soundtrack (non-character) laughing in them, and those with added laughter to help cue you in to what bits are supposed to be funny. What’s the general term for the latter?
As pulykamell noted, even with a live audience taping there is some post-production processing of the audience response, such as “sweetening”, when the audience failed to laugh hard enough.
There are a few Youtube videos which highlight how removing the laughter changes the pacing and effect of scenes, for example, The Big Bang Theory - No Laugh Track.
I saw it last night and thought it was cute. I always go for those family sitcoms though.
I have watched TBBT but not in a long time. Is Sheldon supposed to be autistic or just quirky or do they ever say? Because the way they present young Sheldon he is clearly autistic. I don’t know that it matters but there have been several young TV characters in the past few years like this, like Brick from The Middle, where they are portrayed as children with Aspergers but they always treat them like they’re just quirky and weird but adorable.
I don’t have a cite on hand but the show creators have said previously that they weren’t ever going to label Sheldon as autistic (or anything else) because they didn’t want it to step on the comedy. Once he’s definitively labeled as ASD then they have to focus on getting it “right” and you have the touchier subject of now poking fun of his autism versus his non-defined social quirks.
For the age and location of the Young Sheldon series, I could easily see him just getting labeled as “Smart, but special” or some other vague term. It probably wasn’t until the last ten years or so that most people’s understanding of ASD expanded beyond “Non-verbal, rocks while sitting, can’t be touched…” etc. I doubt his home town is on the cutting edge of neurological evaluation in the 80s.
As for the show itself, I missed much of it but my wife liked it. She said that she related to the mother.