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A still in the series The Big Bang Theory (courtesy Michael Yarish, Warner Bros. Entertainment)
If cultural criticism was strictly a numbers game, we would not have never heard of Mad Men Breaking Bad or The Americans . We would know enough about the television series starring Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari or Jeffrey Tambor to deserve the indignation that pushed these guys to no longer be accepted. We might be vaguely aware that there was once a show called Girls or a young woman named Lena Dunham. And David Simon would probably have no engineering grant.
Here is a theorem of symmetry that deserves a whiteboard filled with confused calculations: What dimension do we live, we must ask, where are some of the most watched shows ( NCIS and its impact on CBS, The Work of Dick Wolf Chicago on NBC, Eleven Seasons of Gray's Anatomy on ABC) inspire a relatively limited degree of discussion. after-thought, interpretation, or bestowal?
That's what I keep coming back to like the CBS sitcom of Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady The Big Bang Theory ends Thursday night after 12 awesome seasons (279 episodes) after spending a Much of his life Nielsen, or nearly so, ranks – which, yes, is still of great importance in the television broadcasting sector.
[19659006] The Big Bang theory flourished while so many others came and went, making gazillionaires of its producers and main players. This has been a megahit in syndication, almost ubiquitous, the preferred programming choice wherever television is kept, whether someone is watching it or not. Hospital waiting rooms, your aunt's house, everywhere. At high volume, it was the sweet sound of redundancy and comfort – the rhythms of its twisted folds and replicas, the strangely strange mixture of predictability and cerebral joke. It was the possible deformation of time accompanied by gaffaws; the old sitcom format skirting a black hole.
The Big Bang Theory .
What's going on now? The Big Bang Theory .
What's going on now? The Big Bang Theory .
You think I'm here to dance on his grave, but the joke is on you.
I plunged into a day of BBT . reruns, including recent episodes in which his main character, the theoretical physicist and genius Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons), and his equally intelligent wife, neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler (Mayim Bialik), struggle against the decisions that affect their best chances to get the Globe Nobel Prize to glory, I can only sit in the foolish respect of all that makes the show's success.
For a start, the precision of its concept goes hand in hand with the rigid simplicity (some would say confining) of its format. It's smart to be silly to be smart. The attention to detail turned the potential niche characters – four male nerds from physics to geek pop culture all working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena – into an attractive subversion of old and sad stereotypes. There is the irritating and catchy theme song performed by the Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies that sums up the origin of any cosmic and earthly existence up to 20 seconds, emblematic of the celebration of science and mathematics in the world. Issue, at a time when the facts are dangerously spread. opinion.
[196590] And there was the moment Aspelder could suggest if at least one of his characters – Sheldon – could be considered to have a developmental disorder, review another type of show where the characters are openly diagnosed and described. social embarrbadment and rebellious superiority were woven into her friendships and eventual marriage for reasons of cheerfulness, rather than being chosen for tonal maudlin changes away from comedy. because we did not necessarily need it, we explained it.
When was created in 2007 by the Big Bang Theory our culture had already reversed the nerd's archetype, exalting the billionaires and philosophers of high-tech Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Stephen Hawking and, soon, Mark Zuckerberg. Working with a material that was both intellectual and theoretical at the same time, the casting of "The Big Bang Theory" (especially Parsons, which leaves behind a singularly memorable character) provided thin layers like paper and just enough from shading to the developing idea that no one always really not cool. The series was anti-bullying before it became a move.
If we go back to the first season, before the series becomes a hit, it is remarkable to see how everything was instantly etched in stone – the badertion of geek obsessions Heroes, Star Trek, Dungeons & Dragons) – and how much the show had not evolved yet. Sheldon and his roommate, Leonard Hofstadter (Johnny Galecki), meet their new neighbor, Penny (Kaley Cuoco), a budding actress from
Omaha, who works at the Cheesecake Factory. She is blonde, bady. Leonard and Sheldon are captivated and yet intimidated, stammering.
At first it seemed that The Big Bang Theory would make the most of his old hay as a young American man with high IQ play habit repels most women. It's a stunted child-kid who deserves only the jokes of our society about living in the basements and wasting his life – a dangerous idea that has ceased to be funny there are years and misogynistic and violent fomenting notions in lonely men.
Fortunately, the series is far from it. . Penny began dating her nerd neighbors and the rest of their group – Howard Wolowitz (Simon Helberg) and Rajesh Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) – and eventually fell in love with Leonard. Sheldon met Amy and learned to handle her responses to emotion and intimacy, even though the writers in the series necessarily kept her distance sharp. Howard found Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and was chosen to work on the International Space Station. Raj, once mute in the presence of women, has regained self-confidence and is dated to his surroundings.
The message seemed clear and somewhat regressive: each of these men could only be solved by adding a woman to the equation – women who "had" them, women who could remember that people mean more than mathematics. Although speaking the language of Comic-Con and STEM with a fluidity that seemed modern and even connected (for network television), make no mistake: The Big Bang Theory was resolutely conventional, aiming directly hit a bull's eye.
Of course, there have been better performances on the nascent nerddom and the technological clumsiness – HBO's Silicon Valley for example.
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The Big Bang Theory (one hour) double – But this show is not constantly broadcast in airport terminals and in the living room of your in-laws The final series of episodes will air Thursday at 8:00 pm. EDT on CBS, followed by a new episode of Young Sheldon . Special tribute, Revealing the Mystery: A Great Farewell airs at 9:30 am.
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