Sheldon Leonard is an actor, producer, screenwriter and director who has created a huge number of performances, films and television shows. It was he who inspired two American producers, and it was to him that the two odious characters of the popular show owe their names. The Big Bang Theory is an American television series about two gifted scientists. Its creators, Chuck Lorry and Bill Prey, gave them the names Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstedter and endowed them with peculiar characters. In this article, you can learn about reviews of the series "The Big Bang Theory", about the characters and actors of the picture, about the plot and history of the creation of the project.
About the television series
The main characters of the series are two friends Sheldon and Leonard. Sheldon - Doctor of Sciences, theoretical physicist and terrible bore. Leonard is Sheldon's best friend, forced to endure his eccentricities, also a doctor of science and an experimental physicist. The complex relationship between friends, their scientific research and attempts to build personal life - this is what became the plot of the witty sitcom.
Interestingly, all the formulas, equations and scientific facts in the series make sense. David Saltzberg, a real professor of astronomy and physics at the University of California, was invited to the show as a scientific consultant.
The release date of the series "The Big Bang Theory" is September 2007, shooting the picture continues to this day. The show takes place in Pasadena, California. Two brilliant scientists, having graduated from the California Institute of Technology, live in the same apartment and continue their scientific work at alma mater. Friends share a love of superhero comics, science fiction films, and science discoveries. Around their infantile fanaticism for video games and comics, many jokes of the series are built.
A large number of positive reviews about the series “The Big Bang Theory” was received thanks to such unusual main characters: they are unlike superheroes or female conquerors of hearts. They are atypical and therefore immediately attract the attention of viewers.
The main character - Sheldon Cooper
The actor of the series "The Big Bang Theory", who played the role of Sheldon Cooper, was the 34-year-old Jim Parsons.
His hero is an outstanding scientist and an eccentric personality. Sheldon’s childhood passed in Texas, in the usual family of a football fan and a devout housewife. The high intelligence of the young man combined with the lack of sensitivity did not allow him to make friends. But you can’t say that the hero is very burdensome.
Sheldon does not accept bodily contact and most of all hates changes in the established order. Moreover, the young man also did not acquire social skills, and the people around him suffer from this. Sheldon is pathologically clean, pedantic and prudent, but completely devoid of a sense of humor, flexibility of thinking and emotionality.
Cooper's best friend and neighbor, Leonard Hofstedter, became a kind of buffer between Sheldon and the world around him.
Leonard Hofstedter
Leonard is a talented physicist, but is in the shadow of his arrogant neighbor. He patiently destroys Sheldon’s habits, obeys the ridiculous rules that he established, and takes care of his friend, not adapted for independent life.
Leonard Hofstedter suffers from asthma and does not tolerate lactose, which often becomes the object of jokes. Short-sighted, modest and notorious, Dr. Hofstedter cannot find a girlfriend, and his attempts to meet or go on a date fail. Leonard’s family relations are far from ideal, the authoritarian mother, a doctor of psychiatry, treated her son as a patient.
The role was played by the talented Johnny Mark Galecki. By the way, John Galecki was initially invited to the role of Sheldon, but it was Leonard who was closer to the actor, and the producers did not fail, giving him a chance.
Other characters of the picture
Leonard and Sheldon often come to their few, but strange friends. These are astrophysicist Rajesh Koutrappali and engineer Howard Wolowitz. The role of Dr. Koutrappali went to Indian-born Kunal Nayyaru.
Rajesh, commonly referred to as Raj, is originally from India. His main problem is that in the presence of girls he is speechless. Over the course of the story, Dr. Koutrappali will get rid of this trouble, but, unlike his friends, he will not be able to have any long-term relationship. He speaks with a funny Indian accent and does not need anything, as Rajesh's parents are very rich and provide him. Rajesh follows the figure, loves musicals and once starts a small dog. Friends often joke about his homosexuality, although Raj has denied this many times.
The only one who does not have a doctorate in this company is Howard Volowitz, played by Simon Helberg. He lives with his noisy mother, considers himself a handsome and smoothie. Howard is Jewish, he speaks six languages, including fictional Klingon and sign language, and dresses in tight-fitting clothing. Howard's mother embodies the stereotypical Jewish mother, and only her powerful voice is heard in the frame. In the frame of Debbie Wolowitz appears only once, but the viewer did not see her face.
The appearance of a neighbor
At the very beginning of the first season of the series The Big Bang Theory, spectacular blonde Penny bursts into the measured life of scientists. For this role, Kaley Cuoco was chosen . Having moved to an apartment opposite the housing of Leonard and Sheldon, she robs them of peace, however, for various reasons. Sheldon does not like change, and Leonard falls in love with a frivolous neighbor.
Initially, according to the creators, Penny was supposed to look like a girl of easy virtue, but in the process of preparing for the filming process, the character acquired such features as responsiveness, kindness and simplicity.
Pretty Penny came to California from Nebraska to become an actress, but the producers were in no hurry to give her roles. Therefore, the girl works as a waitress and occasionally interrupts with dubious roles in advertising and low-budget films.
Love relationship in the series
Penny is successful with men, but by the third season begins to meet with Leonard. After quarrels, partings and reconciliations, by the ninth season, the couple will finally bind themselves together, and Penny without a surname will become Penny Hofsteder. By the way, Kaylee and John met for about two years, hiding it from colleagues and the crew.
Sheldon will also find his soul mate. She was the neuroscientist Amy Farah Fowler, whom Sheldon's friends found on a dating site. Amy plays the harp, tests the brain and works hard. At the first date, Dr. Fowler and Dr. Cooper were skeptical about the idea of having a relationship, but there was a lot in common between them. Both - fanatical scientists, pedants and sociophobes, met for several seasons, until in the 11th season, finally, they played a wedding. The role of Dr. Amy Farah Fowler was played by Mayim Bialik - by education, a neuroscientist, like her character.
As a result, Howard also got married. His chosen one was Bernadette Rostenkovsky, clever and microbiologist. While studying for graduate school, Bernadette worked with Penny in a cafe, but after receiving a degree, got a position in a medical company. She did not have a relationship with Howard at first, but the heroes overcame everything and got married by the end of the fifth season.
Viewers believe that by choosing Bernadette as a life partner, Howard replaced his mother with it. After all, although she is sweet in appearance, she is in fact imperious and firm in character. The role of Dr. Rostenkovsky was played by Melissa Roych, who was originally supposed to appear in the frame episodically, but with the talented game and the brightness of the character she won the recognition of the audience.
Minor Movie Characters
Also in the TV show, a huge number of secondary characters who fell in love with the audience no less than the main characters. Stuart Bloom (Kevin Zussman), the owner of the comic book store, sympathizes with everyone who watched The Big Bang Theory. It's funny that Kevin, until he became an actor, really worked in his own comic book store.
Notable characters include burry Barry Kripke (John Ross Bowie) and geologist Bert Kibbler (Brian Posen). As a cameo in the frame, you can meet such famous people as Stephen Hawking, Will Whitton, Stan Lee, Mark Hammil and others.
Awards and nominations
The Big Bang Theory lasted more than 10 years on the screens, delighting fans with twelve seasons. During this time, the series and its actors have received many awards. Of the 46 nominations, the show received seven Emmys, four of which went to Parsons for the lead role. In addition, in 2011 he received the Golden Globe for the role of Sheldon - the protagonist of the series "The Big Bang Theory." The 12 season of the project will be released in 2019, and the series will come to its logical conclusion. Fans of the cast and the TV show itself should not be very upset, because Chuck Lorry began to create a kind of prequel called “Sheldon’s Childhood”. The new series promises to be exciting.
Reviews on the series "The Big Bang Theory"
Throughout its existence, the television series has won the hearts of many viewers. According to the rating of “Kinopoisk”, the picture received 8.6 points out of 10 based on reviews on the series “The Big Bang Theory” left by viewers. This is a very high mark, which suggests that the picture has a large number of fans. Many viewers consider the series "The Big Bang Theory" the best multi-part project of our time.