‘Young Sheldon’ Sequel ‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’ Is a Reversion to Form for Chuck Lorre: TV Review
variety.comAlison Herman TV Critic “I like laughin’ shows,” Georgie Cooper (Montana Jordan) declares in the opening scene of “Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage.” “Some shows you can hear people laughin’, and some you can’t. ‘The Wonder Years’ — no one’s laughin’.
Is it funny? We’ll never know!” Georgie makes this observation while watching “Frasier,” a bit of ambient exposition that situates “Georgie & Mandy” in the mid-1990s, temporally sandwiched between “Young Sheldon,” the prequel to “The Big Bang Theory” about the titular genius’s Texas youth, and “The Big Bang Theory” itself, in which Jim Parsons originated the role subsequently played by Iain Armitage.
That makes “Georgie & Mandy” a spinoff of a spinoff, its franchise approaching the two-decade mark since “The Big Bang Theory” debuted in 2007 and still expanding.
Another satellite show remains in development. But Georgie’s joke is also a wink through the fourth wall at the CBS sitcom’s own in-studio audience.
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