Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’ Season 2 Needs To Let Georgie Grow Beyond ‘Young Sheldon’
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Throughout the first season of Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage, the titular couple, Montana Jordan’s Georgie and Emily Osment’s Mandy, slowly but surely began to realize just how hard this marriage thing truly can be. Learning to listen to one another. Working with one another. Finding that balance between the things you can let go, and the things that will drive you mad if you let it continue.
Then there’s the real shocker: sex isn’t the answer to fixing things all the time. Even that can be a source of disagreement between a young couple, particularly if one party is looking to grow the family while the other isn’t, as played out in Episode 16, “Baby Fight.” Being the younger of the two, Georgie has done his best, and has had his successes, yet in many ways he’s still the same Georgie from Young Sheldon. Season 2 needs to let him grow, turning this Junior into a Senior.
The ‘Young Sheldon’ Georgie Takes Shortcuts to Adulthood
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Georgie started out as a high school student and football player, one that had the unenviable situation of being in the same class as his 10-year-old child prodigy brother, Sheldon (Iain Armitage). He acted like any high schooler would in that scenario: angry, jealous, perturbed, and, deep down, maybe even proud. But we soon learned that Georgie had a tremendous work ethic, and a “never give up” attitude. He also had an innate entrepreneurial spirit, one that successfully sold snow globes to Texans, of all people (“Quirky Eggheads and Texas Snow Globes”), and one that helped Meemaw (Annie Potts) launch her illegal casino.
But his arc on the series saw Georgie take a number of shortcuts into adulthood. He quits school in Season 3’s “Potential Energy and Hooch on a Park Bench,” determining that he’s not cut out for academics or football, and would be better served working longer hours earning money. As we know, he ended up getting Mandy pregnant in Season 5, a big step into adulthood that culminated in the pair getting married in Season 7’s “A Proper Wedding and Skeletons in the Closet.” The unexpected death of the Cooper patriarch, George Sr. (Lance Barber), wasn’t of his own making, of course, but the result is the same, pushing Georgie deeper into adulthood before he’s truly ready for it.
The ‘Young Sheldon’ Georgie Lives On in ‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’
It’s the same Young Sheldon Georgie that has largely been present in Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’s first season. It makes sense, and it’s a credit to the creative team that they’re taking time to let Georgie mature. But, it’s a bit tough to watch. He’s still impulsive, right up to the point of buying the tire shop off of his father-in-law, Jim McAllister (Will Sasso), in the season finale. He still has the belief that things will just work out, and while it’s good to know he still has that optimism, Georgie’s now in a position where sheer belief isn’t an option. That belief also prevents Georgie from thinking about the very real consequences that befall such adult decisions.
Montana Jordan as Georgie and Emily Osment as Mandy smiling toward the camera
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Georgie also hasn’t learned anything from his experiences. In Young Sheldon’s Season 3 episode “Body Glitter and a Mall Safety Kit,” Georgie runs afoul of his father when he asserts that, because he’s working, he no longer has to contribute to household chores, and makes it worse by paying Billy (Wyatt McClure) to mow the lawn, disregarding the lesson that George is trying to teach him by throwing money at something he doesn’t want to do. An attempt to smooth things over with Georgie ends badly when Georgie offers to pay to get the AC fixed in the truck, unintentionally offending George by overstepping and disrespecting him. It’s an experience that one would think would sink in, only he does it again by paying off Jim’s gambling debt to Meemaw in “Snitch v. Deadbeat,” overstepping and trying to fix something he has no business interfering in.
‘Young Sheldon’s Georgie Will Kill ‘Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage’ Unless He Grows
Montana Jordan’s Georgie and Emily Osment’s Mandy in bed in Georgie & Mandy’s First MarriageImage via CBS
We know that, at some point, the “first marriage” part of the show’s title will come to pass with the marriage ending, but unless Georgie is allowed to grow in Season 2, that ending is coming sooner than later. What the season finale made clear is just how far Ge
