Andrea and I watched the end of season 1 of Naomi.
It turns it was the end of season only for Naomi.
In a way, it's almost a relief. I really wanted to like this show. But the pacing was glacial, dragging out the development of Naomi McDuffie's character and unravelling the mysteries around her origin and her super powers.
Naomi kind of fell into a tired repetition.
- Naomi: "I want answers!"
- Some other character: "You're not ready!"
Next episode:
- Naomi: "I want answers!"
- Some other character: "You're not ready!"
Next episode:
- Naomi: "I want answers!"
- Some other character: "You're not ready!"
Sometimes they would shake things up a bit.
- Some character talking about Naomi: "Naomi needs answers!"
- Some other character: "She's not ready!"
We even got this gem in episode 12:
- Some other character: "It's time to face your destiny!"
- Naomi: "But I'm not ready!"
Aw, dammit girl!
The teens on this show talked funny to me. I'm not sure if teenagers really talk that way and I'm too old to get it or no, kids really don't talk that way.
Naomi finally gets some answers: she's from Earth 29 which was devastated by some evil force named Brutus who is coming for Naomi... very slowly, it seems.
Naomi the character was very interesting but too much time was spent playing keep away with answers which bogged the show down and made it a drag to stay awake for.
I suppose if Naomi had been renewed for a 2nd season, I'm not sure I would've stuck around. Pacing issues aside, I'm not saying it's a bad show. I just don't think it was made for me and I doubt I would've come back to watch a 2nd season.
Well, maybe to find out what's up with her adoptive parents and the last second reveal that they didn't save Naomi as a baby when her birth parents were killed. No, the stole Naomi as a baby, killing her birth parents along the way.
Well, that some serious shit to drop on us at the end of the final episode.
And now with no option to resolve what that all means.
At least in the final scene, Naomi finally learns how to fly.
Reaching it's season finale last week was Young Sheldon which is renewed for next season.
Damn, do we really want to do go there? The Cooper family is in some serious shit now.
The downward spiral continues for patriarch George Cooper as laid out for us in The Big Bang Theory. Already feeling trapped and dissatisfied with where life has led him, even that is now under attack. He's out as coach of the Medford High football team. And he's at odds with wife Mary on what to do about Georgie.
Their 17 year old son has gotten his 29 year old girlfriend pregnant. Mary's knee jerk reaction is the two need to get married and the baby's going to be raised Baptist.
George is not on board with that because Georgie's 17 years old, he's an idiot and... and some other third thing that the senior Cooper would just as soon not give voice to.
That George got married to Mary because she was pregnant and they had to.
Meanwhile, judgmental alleged Christian Mary is getting a taste of her own damn medicine, ostracized by the other judgmental alleged Christians of her church over Georgie's indiscretion and let go from her job at the church office by Pastor Jeff who is being quite a dick about this.
Remember how in The Big Bang Theory it was revealed that George Cooper Sr cheated on his wife? Well, that may not be the only potential marital infidelity going on with the very obvious to everyone attraction going on between Mary and Youth Pastor Rob.
Man, I'm going on a lot about George and Mary Cooper. For a show called Young Sheldon, where is young Sheldon in all this?
It does seem that sometimes Sheldon gets sidelined in the show bearing his name. Being at college frequently puts Sheldon out of the orbit of his family.
But the shenanigans brought on by Georgie getting his girlfriend pregnant can't help but intrude on Sheldon's awareness and cause some distractions in his school work.
And then there is the monster called puberty. It was going to happen sooner or later, no matter how much Sheldon willed it not to happen. (And certainly with Iain Armitage now almost as tall as the adults in the cast now.) And the end of the season, Sheldon embraces the changes that are to come by buying his first Flash graphic tee-shirt.
By the way, there's a cool bit form the season finale where
Iain plays versions of George, Mary, Georgie and his Mee Maw. Check out the video below starting at the 3:11 mark.
While there is certainly some funny stuff still going on in this show, Young Sheldon has morphed into more of a dramedy as the Cooper family spirals further into disintegration. Heading into next season, we can fully expect an even bumpier road ahead for everyone.
OK, that is that for this week's Tuesday TV Touchbase.
Next week, the original Law & Order reaches the end of it's first revival season and we take a look at Our Flag Means Death.
No, I did not see that one coming.
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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