[TV] Young Sheldon

Super Steve Earle said:

We sometimes have threads about what to watch. I'm interested in other's opinion of Young Sheldon, the spinoff prequel to Big Bang Theory. Initially focussed on Sheldon, it grew in to a ensemble cast comedy with a great supporting cast before developing in to a full blown family drama. 5 Seasons in, I was gutted to realise after 22 episodes, the season finished a week ago. I'm missing it already. I anticipated it more eagerly than Star Trek. A rich cast of strong characters, I can't believe the highlight of my TV week has finished for this season. Luckily already renewed for Season 6 & 7 already. I can't wait. Anyone else been watching it or maybe someone might start binge watching following my recommendation? It's not laugh out loud comedy excepy maybe one killer line per show, but now it's real drama.

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Super Steve Earle said:

We sometimes have threads about what to watch. I'm interested in other's opinion of Young Sheldon, the spinoff prequel to Big Bang Theory. Initially focussed on Sheldon, it grew in to a ensemble cast comedy with a great supporting cast before developing in to a full blown family drama. 5 Seasons in, I was gutted to realise after 22 episodes, the season finished a week ago. I'm missing it already. I anticipated it more eagerly than Star Trek. A rich cast of strong characters, I can't believe the highlight of my TV week has finished for this season. Luckily already renewed for Season 6 & 7 already. I can't wait. Anyone else been watching it or maybe someone might start binge watching following my recommendation? It's not laugh out loud comedy excepy maybe one killer line per show, but now it's real drama.

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Timbo said:

I’m currently rewatching Big Bang for the second time, it’s absolutely glorious but I’ve never been tempted by Young Sheldon. Is it really any good?

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thedonkeycentrehalf said:

I was never into Big Bang Theory but watched Young Sheldon from the beginning. I then started catching up with BBT (not difficult as there are about 6 episodes a day across the C4 channels plus All4) and have enjoyed piecing together the stuff mentioned in BBT with what is happening in Young Sheldon.

I think it stands well on its own with MeMaw a great character as is Missy although, as with all US sitcoms, every so often there is an episode where you wonder what they were thinking when pitching the script.

There is also that great link where the actor who plays Sheldon's mum in YS is the daughter of the actor who played his mum in BBT

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Super Steve Earle said:

We sometimes have threads about what to watch. I'm interested in other's opinion of Young Sheldon, the spinoff prequel to Big Bang Theory. Initially focussed on Sheldon, it grew in to a ensemble cast comedy with a great supporting cast before developing in to a full blown family drama. 5 Seasons in, I was gutted to realise after 22 episodes, the season finished a week ago. I'm missing it already. I anticipated it more eagerly than Star Trek. A rich cast of strong characters, I can't believe the highlight of my TV week has finished for this season. Luckily already renewed for Season 6 & 7 already. I can't wait. Anyone else been watching it or maybe someone might start binge watching following my recommendation? It's not laugh out loud comedy excepy maybe one killer line per show, but now it's real drama.

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Brovion said:

Yes. I watched the first two seasons and really enjoyed them. Iain Armitage was absolutely superb. Haven't seen the others, not because I've given up on it, but because other stuff's got in the way and I don't want to watch them out of sequence.

It's interesting how some of the characters are not 'quite' as they are in the Big Bang. Sheldon's dad for example is described in TBBT as a drunk and a redneck bigot whom Sheldon caught having sex with another woman (The reason why he always knocks on doors the way he does). In YS he's a much more sympathetic character. Of course he may have changed in the seasons I haven't watched - and of course he dies in the end!

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