Johnny Galecki as Leonard Hofstadter
Jim Parsonsas as Sheldon Cooper
Kaley Cuoco as Penny
Simon Helberg as Howard Wolowitz
Kunal Nayyar as Rajesh Koothrappali
[Wiki here]
Genre: Comedy, Science, Friendship
Episodes: Season 1: 17, Season 2: 23
Summary: Leonard and Sheldon share an apartment. They are both physicists, possessing Ph.Ds and a definite lack of proper social skills. Sheldon, who has the highest IQ (a fact which he is all too aware of), is by far the worst, failing at understanding even sarcasm, but they are pretty much all in the same boat, along with their two friends Raj and Howard. Penny, a pretty, blond, aspiring actress (who is in the meanwhile working at the cheesecake factory) moves across the hall from Leonard and Sheldon. The fun begins.
Review: I find it amusing that the post right below this about Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge, where the situation is pretty much the reverse.
In this sitcom, unlike the anime/manga, the four guys are the ones who lack social skills, and it's the girl who is pretty, popular and normal, with the guys striving to attain a score of normalcy. Or you know, just, score.
I personally loved all of Sheldon's interactions with... anyone really, the most, because he just doesn't understand how the 'inferior' (according to him, since he himself is apparently a mutation, a new, improved version, a new evolutionary species) mind works at all, and all his social observations are hilarious. His life is incredibly routine, organized, and everything, to the tiniest detail, has to be Sheldon approved. Poor everyone else who has to put up with him. XD
It's incredibly amusing how they all (especially Sheldon) describe stuff, and basically do anything, because their perspective is certainly different, and even the simplest things are cause for extensive debate. With unnecessarily non-common words. Also, hyperbole is much win. And superheroes and Spock are srs biznss.
All in all, fun. Worth watching. I'll make sure to get the third season from my cousin too~
Rating: 8/10
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Note: Short review is short, I know. However, it is part of my new year's plans to review everything I watch/read this year, so I am making an attempt. Yes, this is the first thing I've watched or read so far this year (Not counting keeping-up-with-Manga-reading). Will attempt to do so in the future too. Now I gotta go study for my Economics A'Level unit 1, which is tomorrow. [Yes, I do realize that this is not the best time to go around watching sitcoms all in one go. -_-']