The one hundred second TV show: #777 The Big Bang Theory
Big Bang Theory is one of the shows we'd given up before the list that I'm now revisiting. There's something good about the premise - geeks that have to deal with real life, with a lot of love for them. A lot of it is quite nice and it does its best to move past the stereotypes after a while. There's a lot of heart to how they treat the characters, with touching moments... but then it needs a cheap joke and moves away from it. It's the disonance that can get frustrating, as well as the slow movement of character development - there's a bit, but with a lot of backsliding. It gets frustrating and probably should have ended a few years before it actually did. It's a shame, but it's been a good journey while I was on board.