Afgelopen nacht sleepte Jim Parsons aka Sheldon een Emmy in de wacht voor zijn rol in The Big Bang Theory. Nu is deze show geliefd en gehaat onder "ons" geeks en nerds. Met sommige wetenschap en game/wetenschap verwijzingen zit het altijd goed, maar "wij" worden nog steeds neergezet als een zooi kneuzen die LARPEN, Gamen en sociaal akward zijn... Daarnaast zijn de acteurs zelf alles behalve nerds en geeks, sterker ze weten soms (wat al meerdere kerenpijnlijk naar voren kwam bij ComicCon panels) niet eens waar ze over praten in de show. Daarom maakte de website Uproxx dit artikel waarom deze serie zo gehaat is.

Parsons actually deserves his award, I think, because he's had to try and work out a way to deliver the same basic joke for more than a hundred episodes without it going stale or making us worried he's a serial killer. The show's been accused of mocking autistics, but really, Parsons can only do so much with his material.

The show gives its cast, and it must be said it's brought on some pretty experienced journeyman actors, nothing to work with, and what's irritating is how fundamentally uninterested it is in changing that. This is a show so concerned with getting its depiction of a subculture right, the nerdy interests of its main characters are quite literally for sale. The show's writers don't know enough, or care enough, to make a joke feel real. Futurama mocks nerds all the time, but it earns it because it's pretty incisively observed: Their Star Trek episode is full of hilarious in-jokes only a hardcore Trekkie would get, but the greatest Star Trek fan of all time in that episode is an unemployed virgin who lives with his mom.