Young Sheldon (nerd alert!)

Good catch. I tried watching it and found most of the characters insufferable. My in-laws love it.

I really liked the first couple of seasons. It was fresh. And there was a high nerd-quotient. Then, for me, it turned into "just another sitcom," with predictable jokes and delivery.

But I think the show did a lot to make nerds culturally acceptable. 

I don't recall ever watching "Young Sheldon". I did watch "Big Bang Theory" back when it was new. But not much.

Probably not.

I did google it a bit and... well... 

It's funny because I didn't really like the first seasons of Big Bang. As a matter of fact I watched the whole series in a few weeks years after it was over. I didn't know about it when it was on. So I got used to it after a few seasons only and only liked it then, because (I think) up until them the characters were ill-defined, some of them at least, and Sheldon evolved from one of the five main characters of the series to the undisputed main character thereof. That's only then, I think, that the series reached its maturity.

So it seems that you and I had diametrically opposed experiences of the show. 

I don’t think I’ll agree with that. They all start basically as clichés and evolve throughout the series, becoming more complex and thus interesting characters.





Let’s examine that:



Sheldon starts as an autistic genius who is unable to read other people’s emotions, nor express those he feels himself. He ends up an accomplished scientist with a wife with whom he shares his Nobel prize (kind of like Marie Curie and her husband). And he discards the long speech he had prepared and instead thanks his friends without whom he realizes he wouldn’t have gotten there. He evolves seamlessly from the Sheldon at the beginning of the series to the one at the end. That is a remarkable acting job for which Jim Parsons received several awards.





Leonard goes from a nerd who’s hopelessly in love with his neighbor who thinks of him as a friend and dates men that are nothing like him to the man she marries.





Howard starts as a creepy nerd who lives with his mother and ends up as a happily married father of two kids and someone who’s been in space!



Raj from someone who can’t even talk when a girl is within his sight to someone still single but dating pretty women.





Penny is kind of an airhead, she’s a penniless (wink) waitress/would be actress who dates handsome losers (often dumb as a stump) and ends up Leonard's wife and a success in her career (since she’s richer than her husband).





So you see? There’s more to it than has met your eye.

I was almost certain of that, which is why I told you that. Maybe you could give it another try. The show ended with a consequential audience, because Jim Parsons refused to do two more seasons in spite of the fifty million dollars he would have won, had he accepted. Seven of the other actors lost that amount too, but the show couldn't continue without him, so they were a little pissed at him... I don't know if they've forgiven him yet. 

According to his bio, plenty, as actor , in films, TV series and on stage, also as a producer , he's won about twenty awards and has been nominated for about twice as many.