‘The Big Bang Theory’ ended its fourth season by indulging in a bit of bedroom scandal, relationship drama, and ‘Star Trek’-themed sex jokes. The show played it safe and sleazy, and it left us laughing and scratching our heads with a strange and shocking cliffhanger ending. And it worked! The finale, despite its flaws and severe “WTF?”-ery, was a funny and compelling nugget of nerd fluff. And it was all over way too soon.
Like most of the good episodes this season, this one wasn’t particularly innovative or clever — actually, the jokes and situations were mostly pure stock — but it was still enormously entertaining. There was a lot of out-of-the-blue insanity here that mostly rang false, but who cares? This is one of the silliest sitcoms on the planet. What matters are the jokes, the delivery and the performances. And, as usual, all of that stuff — the important stuff — was on-point here.
The big shocking developments of the night didn’t really make any sense, and they all felt unearned and tacked on to raise the stakes and to throw everything into season finale cliffhanger mode. Priya is moving back to India and she didn’t tell Leonard! Bernadette is making Howard feel more insecure than ever! Raj hooked up with Penny! Wha? Drama! Awesome, ridiculous, manufactured sitcom drama. Love it or leave it. Me? Love. It. Read the rest @ Aol TV.
