Young Sheldon. Discuss

Loved it and by the end I liked it more than BBT.

Seen a few here and there. The actors do what they can. I never find much to laugh at when I watch.

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Watched the entire series and enjoyed it.

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Same here. I was enjoyable... and rewatchable.

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I have started watching the spin off, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.

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Couldn't make it through the second episode.

- dad isn't horrible like the big bang makes him to be
- young Sheldon can be highly annoying
- meemaw is the best part of the show
- followed by missy and Georgie
- mom is hard to follow
- George and Brenda/Mary and Rob were cringe
- love all the old coach people showing up
- pastor Jeff is annoying
- the whole coaching debacle was hard to watch
- the two professors are awesome

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Hate Mary. If I was her kid, I would've antagonized the hell out of her knowing how tightly wound she is.

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I liked her. She had to be close to how the mom was on BBT (as portrayed by the actress who is her real life mom), but they made her and the other family more likable and didn’t make fun of them as being backwards hicks like they did at times on BBT especially before young Sheldon was starting up. She isn’t nearly as over the top and hardline as her mom played the mom on BBT.

Her and Sheldon had some good moments at least early on. She is protective of Sheldon and fights for him or gets the others to do it which wasn’t always part of the character on BBT. The dad is portrayed as a better dad and husband than initially portrayed during BBT until Young Sheldon started. It worked that BBT Sheldon was clueless to everything they did for him.

It’s funny, and it has some good family moments which I didn’t expect when I first heard about it coming out of BBT. I didn’t watch it until this past summer when I read a discussion here which made me realize it was different than I thought it was going to be.

An underrated reoccurring storyline was Paige. Her being smarter but a normal kid and then teen without the same support Sheldon was getting including keeping him close while going to college would have been interesting to show more than they did.

The single camera format used on show should have been used on georgie and Mandy’s first marriage. Georgie tries to hard to end every comment over the top including his facial expression. In a single camera set up they could cut away and show someone else’s reasction or something else. Mandy and her parents were also better on young Sheldon than on new show.

Probably because they made Sheldon pretty unlikable.

His mother often coddled him when she should have punished him.

He's definitely on the autism spectrum. Although a genius, he is an emotional idiot. That test where he can't guess a single emotion is one they use now for spectrum disorders. What that means is he is going to interpret things differently from a normal person. When his dad doesn't let him have his way, there are usually good reasons for it. However, Sheldon was not emotionally capable of understanding why so he would think his father was being mean.

I can see why they moved on to other characters. Got to keep changing or else the act gets stale and the audience gets bored. Casting did a great job on the show.

Forgive me for asking but what is BBT?

My 12 year old niece is obsessed with this show and keeps telling me that I will love it so I might check it out

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The show manages to poke fun at religion without being disrespectful, dismissive, or insulting which is quite a feat for Hollywood.

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When I first heard about the show being made I was expecting it to border on insulting or dismissive as BBT could come close when Sheldon’s family involved or talked about. Same thing with people from a small Texas town. I was not interested in watching it for the entire run of the show until I read here how different it was than I expected.

I don’t feel YS is as rewatchable as BBT.

But YS gets you in the feels. Team George.