The Big Bang Theory

Finally, the season 10 of The Big Bang Theory is arrived, with our beloved characters in Pasadena, CA! 

I started to watch this sitcom a bit late from its broadcasting, when I subscribed to Infinity, an Italian online streaming service similar to Netflix, last year. 

(here the full theme song)

At first, I didn’t know the story of the different characters, because I missed the previous seasons, but then I realised I really liked it, so I decided to go back to watch all the episodes. 

I think that The Big Bang Theory is a special sitcom, because it shows the world of the so-called "nerds", "losers" and “geek”, who know everything about comics, superheroes and science fiction, the little big problems of the everyday life and in particular the perfect balance between each character.

The main characters are: Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter (physicists, who also share an apartment), Howard Wolowitz (aerospace engineer), Rajesh Koothrappali (astrophysicist) and Penny (who lives across the hall), and in the season 4 we meet Bernadette Rostenkowski (microbiologist) and Amy Farrah Fowler (neuroscientist).

(from left to right: Bernadette, Howard, Raj, Penny, Sheldon, Leonard and Amy)

The male characters work at Caltech, they are close friends and they have the same interests. They have insecurities, sometimes they quarrel, but without their ups and downs their friendship wouldn’t be so unique. Even the relationship between the three female characters is similar to the guys’ one and they also try to know something about the “geek world” of the boys.

Sarcasm (and black humour) is the best part of the sitcom and it is the real protagonist: almost everybody use sarcastic comments. Even Sheldon, who often doesn't understand them, during the show, begins to learn how it works.

Another interesting thing is that all the scientific references and terms are real: in fact, the screenplay is checked by a real Physics professor, David Saltzberg. Also, the name Cooper refers to the Nobel Prize Laureate Leon Cooper.

There are a lot of cameos, for example the ones with Stephen Hawking, Carrie Fisher, Stan Lee and James Earl Jones.

Now two new episodes, The Conjugal Conjecture and The Military Miniaturization, have been released, so we will see what will come next!

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See you soon

Yours, Silvia