Young Sheldon Season 5: How Paige’s Dark Storyline Affects Sheldon
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Young Sheldon season 5.
Paige's dark arc in Young Sheldon's 100th episode will affect Sheldon's (Iain Armitage) story moving forward. Following a two-week hiatus, the CBS sitcom celebrated its latest major milestone and, instead of a cameo from any of The Big Bang Theory characters, Young Sheldon brought back McKenna Grace's Paige instead.
Introduced in Young Sheldon season 2, Paige has appeared on the show several times over the years. As Sheldon's fellow child prodigy, the pair's relationship has been complicated thus far, primarily because he has been insecure that she seems to be better adjusted than she is. Unfortunately, that all changed when Paige's parents split up. When she re-emerged in Young Sheldon's 100th episode, she was in distress, and in the end, she decided to drop out of school. Briefly, she attempted to run away but she eventually return, although that didn't resolve her personal woes.
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When asked about how Paige's dark arc affects Sheldon's future, Young Sheldon co-creator Steven Molaro tells Deadline that it gives the socially-inept genius some perspective of how difficult life can be. Whether or not it will explicitly set up the character's arc in the show is uncertain, and, unfortunately, the producer didn't say. Read his full comment below:
Paige (McKenna Grace) and Sheldon (Iain Armitage) go way back. They’re both equally smart, but she has been having trouble dealing with her side of it more than he has, through her parents divorce, which she blamed on herself in previous episodes. And now in this episode, those are troubles for her in college. It’s nice to see Sheldon gain a little perspective
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