At first it was believed that Young Sheldon had been canceled due to the costs associated with its seniority, taking into account that it had been on the air for seven seasons. Later those in charge said that it was a creative decision. But, according to actress Annie Potts, the cancellation can only be described as “stupid.”
Potts, who has played the character of Connie since 2017, also known as Sheldon Cooper’s grandmother, did not expect that the seventh season would be the last: “It was especially hard because I was completely unprepared.” The reason is simple: “It is the number 1 series on free-to-air television, the number one on Netflix.”
“If a series starts to drag on or has trouble finding stories or whatever, then you can see it coming,” he argued. But, in the case of the cancellation of this successful prequel, the most watched comedy in the United States, he felt like the victim of an “ambush.” She is clear: “It just seemed like a stupid economic decision.”
Let us remember that Steve Holland, co-creator of Young Sheldon with Chuck Lorre, argued in a conversation with the press that they felt “that it was the right time to close the series while it was still at the top” because “there are certain things that we know that happen in Sheldon’s life at 14 years old.”
This referred to the fact that at that age Sheldon enrolled at Cal Tech University, so he had to leave the Cooper home, which is the center of the fiction. Furthermore, George, the father, also dies at that age.
Maintaining the sitcom as it was (and as it worked) was an impossible task and, instead of looking for a way to renew it, they preferred to close it and focus on the spin-off with Georgie and Mandy, the characters played by Montana Jordan and Emily Osment.
So, no matter how successful it is, Young Sheldon will say goodbye to the public definitively on May 16 in an episode in which the appearance of Jim Parsons, the original Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, and Mayim Bialik is expected. , who plays Amy Farrah Fowler.
