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Young Sheldon: "Pilot"

Many people smarter than me have noted the difficulty of creating a prequel to an older TV series and as you might guess, the Big Bang Theory prequel Young Sheldon is no exception. As others have noted, it's hard to tell a story when most of your potential audience already knows what happens to the main character and it doesn't help that the character of Sheldon Cooper wasn't terribly complex to begin with.

This is not to say that the show is not without its merits. Actress Zoe Perry does a wonderful show of portraying a younger version of her mother Laurie Metcalf's character on the original Big Bang Theory and actress Raegan Revord -- who plays Sheldon's twin sister Missy -- has her moments. I also found it nice to see Annie Potts appear on subsequent episodes in the role of Sheldon's maternal grandmother. Lance Barber also deserves some credit for doing the best he can with the rather thankless role of Sheldon's father.

Apart from that, I found the plot to be about as formulaic as that of the original Big Bang Theory. But then I suspect most of the audience for these two shows don't watch them for the plot.