Perspective: So long to ‘The Big Bang Theory,’ which was smart about being dumb about being smart
The series finale of “The Big Bang Theory” airs this week. By Hank Stuever Hank Stuever TV critic Email Bio Follow TV critic May 15 at 1:29 PM If cultural criticism was strictly a numbers game, we would never have heard much about “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” or “The Americans.” We wouldn’t know enough about the TV shows that starred Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari or Jeffrey Tambor to merit the outrage that pushed those guys off the grid of acceptability.
“The Big Bang Theory” thrived as so many others came and went, making gazillionaires of its producers and lead cast members. It has been a megahit in syndication, almost pervasively so, the preferred programming choice anywhere the television is kept on, whether someone’s watching it or not. Hospital waiting rooms, your aunt’s house, everywhere.
Looking back to that first season, before the show became a hit, it’s remarkable how much of it was instantly set in stone — the affirmation of geek obsessions — and how much the show had yet to evolve. Sheldon and his roommate Leonard Hofstadter meet their new neighbor, Penny , a wannabe actress from Omaha who works at the Cheesecake Factory. She’s blond, sexy; Leonard and Sheldon are captivated and yet intimidated, bumbling.
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