First Marriage Season 2’s Worst Character Badly Needs This Sitcom Trick

Although Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage season 2 needs to humanize Mandy more, there is one sitcom convention that could help Young Sheldon’s spinoff achieve this. While the title of Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage implies that Georgie and Mandy are both the show’s primary focus, this did not necessarily prove true in season 1 of Young Sheldon’s spinoff.

After all, the show is a follow-up to Young Sheldon, so it is not surprising that Sheldon’s brother gets the majority of the story’s focus. Since his father’s death just before Young Sheldon’s finale, Georgie has effectively become the sitcom franchise’s new main character, and Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage season 1 focused primarily on his struggles with married life.

Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Season 2 Must Spotlight Mandy

Georgie’s Wife Became Season 1’s Unintentional Villain

Georgie and Mandy are theoretically the show’s co-leads, but, in practice, a look back on season 1 proves that Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage centered on Georgie’s struggles with work in more episodes. Since the show focused on Georgie’s perspective, viewers inevitably took his side in most disputes with Mandy. However, Mandy also had some genuinely nasty, ill-intentioned moments.

The combination of Mandy’s meaner side and the show’s prioritization of Georgie’s perspective was that Mandy soon became the inadvertent villain of season 1. Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage season 2 can’t simply make Connor its new hero and forget about its original main characters, since they are the eponymous couple and their marriage is right in the show’s title.

Since Mandy is currently playing a deuteragonist role, season 2 should instead offer her an episode that prizes her perspective alone. Such an episode could follow Mandy through a day at her stressful new anchor job, navigating working with her ex, finding a caretaker for CeCe, and the work itself, only bringing Georgie, Connor, her parents, etc, back in at the end.

A Mandy-Centric Episode Would Humanise Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’s Heroine

Many Earlier Shows Used This Sitcom Staple To Great Effect

An episode like this would prove that Mandy has a whole difficult life of her own, which is alluded to but doesn’t get as much screen time as Georgie’s struggles. While Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage season 2’s potential Sheldon comeback would be a more straightforward ratings grab, an episode in the spotlight for Mandy could redeem her character.

Historically, this has helped sitcom characters who otherwise wouldn’t get the focus they deserve to shine. Episodes like Bob’s Burgers season 14, episode 2, “The Amazing Rudy,” or How I Met Your Mother season 7, episode 12, “Symphony of Illumination,” wherein Robin takes over Ted’s usual narration, proved the approach’s strength.

Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage didn’t do much to endear viewers to Mandy, so the show now runs the risk of turning her into a one-dimensional shrewish sitcom wife villain. As such, Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage season 2 owes this Young Sheldon star an episode in the spotlight.

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