Young Sheldon (2017)
Young Sheldon is a 2017 comedy series created by Steven Molaro and Chuck Lorre. It stars Iain Armitage, Zoe Perry and Lance Barber.
Long before he annoyed roommates in Pasadena, Sheldon Cooper was a nine-year-old genius starting high school in small-town Medford, Texas. Iain Armitage plays him wide-eyed and literal, baffling teachers and testing the patience of a churchgoing family that loves him without quite understanding him. Zoe Perry is his steadfast mother, Annie Potts his sharp-tongued Meemaw, and Lance Barber his football-coach father. Jim Parsons narrates from the future. Warmer and gentler than the sitcom it precedes, the show trades laugh-track zingers for the ache and comedy of a gifted kid growing up out of step with everyone around him.
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What is Young Sheldon about?
Long before he annoyed roommates in Pasadena, Sheldon Cooper was a nine-year-old genius starting high school in small-town Medford, Texas. Iain Armitage plays him wide-eyed and literal, baffling teachers and testing the patience of a churchgoing family that loves him without quite understanding him. Zoe Perry is his steadfast mother, Annie Potts his sharp-tongued Meemaw, and Lance Barber his football-coach father. Jim Parsons narrates from the future. Warmer and gentler than the sitcom it precedes, the show trades laugh-track zingers for the ache and comedy of a gifted kid growing up out of step with everyone around him.
When was Young Sheldon released?
Young Sheldon was released on 25 September 2017.
How many episodes does Young Sheldon have?
Young Sheldon has 141 episodes across 7 seasons.
Who made Young Sheldon?
Young Sheldon was created by Steven Molaro and Chuck Lorre.
Where can I watch Young Sheldon?
Young Sheldon is available on DirecTV On Demand, HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), Netflix and TBS.
Where to watch Young Sheldon
Stream: DirecTV On Demand, HBO (Via Hulu), HBO Max, MAX (Via Amazon Prime), Netflix, TBS, YouTube TV
Buy: Amazon, Fandango at Home
Cast
- Iain Armitage as Sheldon Cooper
- Zoe Perry as Mary Cooper
- Lance Barber as George Cooper
- Montana Jordan as Georgie Cooper
- Raegan Revord as Missy Cooper
- Annie Potts as Connie Tucker
- Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper (voice)
- Wallace Shawn as John Sturgis
- Matt Hobby as Jeff Difford
- Craig T. Nelson as Dale Ballard
- Wyatt McClure as Billy Sparks
- Emily Osment as Mandy McAllister
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A few thoughts on Young Sheldon
The Big Bang Theory picks the story up years later, with the grown Sheldon among fellow scientists and far from Texas. For another warm, narrated look back at an odd childhood, The Wonder Years follows a boy making sense of family and a changing America. Both share this show's gentle, backward-looking affection.
Warm family sitcoms set in a very specific decade and place
Young Sheldon roots its comedy in one exact family, house and year, the same anchor these sitcoms use. King of the Hill, My Three Sons, Father Knows Best, The Honeymooners and The Partridge Family all build their laughs from a household you'd recognize rather than a premise, while The Goldbergs and The Jeffersons prove the format works whether it's the 1980s or a big city apartment.
Sitcoms about a kid too smart or too strange for the family raising them
Sheldon baffles his Texas high school and his own churchgoing family well before he grows into the man on The Big Bang Theory. Freaks and Geeks and Blossom follow other kids whose brains or habits put them a step outside the group around them, while Shin Chan, on screen and on the page, gets the same disconnect between a strange kid and the grown-ups trying to raise him.