The best Young Sheldon episode according to IMDb will make you cry

It’s always a nice surprise when a spin-off ends up becoming its own thing, and “The Big Bang Theory” series “Young Sheldon” has grown tonally and narratively to do just that. The series is told using a frame narrative as adult Sheldon (Jim Parsons) looks back on his young life as he writes his memoir, and as a result the story becomes a bit more emotional. Instead of the quick jokes of “The Big Bang Theory,” “Young Sheldon” is more of a drama, even ditching the notorious comedy. Laugh track and/or studio audience From “The Big Bang”. As young Sheldon Cooper (Ian Armitage) navigates the awkwardness of adolescence (while also having a flavor of neuroticism), we get to know his family, too. There’s his athletic, business-savvy older brother George Jr., aka Georgie (Montana Jordan), his sympathetic younger twin sister Missy (Raegan Revord), his overprotective mother Mary (Zoe Perry), and his football coach father, George Sr. Lance Barber).

Some of the rough edges around the characters as noted in “The Big Bang Theory” were smoothed out, and even the difficult relationship between Sheldon and his father was given real depth. Barber’s George Sr. never really understood his youngest son, but he did his best to be a good father, and that’s part of what makes his death at the end of the series all the more tragic. In the ambitious penultimate episode, “The Funeral,” Sheldon reminisces about his father’s farewell, a great TV show. So great, in fact, that it’s the best episode of the series (at least according to user reviews on… IMDb). The second half of the final episode, “Memoirs” In which Parsons appeared in a cameoranked No. 3, but there’s something special about “Funeral,” even if it will make you cry.

While funerals can be quite funny (“Death at a funeral, anyone?”), the “Funeral” episode of “Young Sheldon” is definitely not meant to elicit laughs. Instead, the episode shows the Cooper family dealing with sudden loss For its patriarch when George Sr. dies of a heart attack shortly after landing his dream job as a college football coach, the funeral takes up a fair portion of the episode and features a lot of heartfelt moments between characters we’ve come to know and love, which is surprising Sort of for a series that ostensibly started out as a sitcom and then again, one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. “M*A*S*H” had an incredibly dark finaleso maybe they were just pulling from the best.

Despite the features of the episode A barber hiding in the background of the funeral In a fun, slightly goofy form, it focuses more on showing the full impact of George’s death on the family. It won’t just be that Serious implications for ‘Young Sheldon’ spin-off series ‘Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage’ Which takes place a few months after the end of the movie “Young Sheldon,” but it gave the writers an opportunity to comment on Sheldon’s relationship with his father.

In “Funeral”, we not only see the Cooper family saying goodbye to George Sr., but we see Sheldon trying to process the loss. Unlike his family, who grieve openly, Sheldon closes in on himself, replaying his final moments with his father over and over in his head, going through different versions of what happened. He could It may look like. Sheldon has always been a bit isolated from everyone in both “The Big Bang Theory” and “Young Sheldon” because he simply processes the world differently, and his family has a hard time with how he deals with his grief. The recurring daydreams about his last conversation with George Sr. are so devastating because they illustrate that father and son had difficulty communicating and understanding each other, but that there was clear love between them.

Losing someone suddenly can bring up a lot of different emotions, and Sheldon’s reaction feels really natural and relatable. Although the character can be quite impenetrable on “The Big Bang Theory,” the best parts of “Young Sheldon” help the audience understand him a little better. We’re not likely to see George Sr. from Barber againeven with potential spin-offs, so it’s a fitting farewell for him as well.