Young Sheldon: George's Death was Expected but Still Gut-Wrenching
Since Young Sheldon is a prequel to The Big Bang Theory , one of the worst-kept secrets on the show was the future of patriarch George Cooper ( Lance Barber ). Being a beloved comedy about to say its final farewells (the series finale is May 16th), I think it is fair to say the show's fans would have been OK had the writers chosen to spare us from the sadness of his death and let it happen sometime between the end of this one and the beginning of the spin-off, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage . In fact, I thought that was what the show writers were going to do until George went to work at the end of last night's episode, A New Home and a Traditional Texas Torture, and didn't come back. Honestly, it was something that I probably should have seen coming but, even if I did, I think the shock would have been the same. I've watched enough television to have seen plenty of beloved characters killed off. Sometimes those deaths were telegraphed. Other times they were ...