The Big Bang Theory series finale was true to itself: "It didn’t try to do too much or too little"

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"The series finale of The Big Bang Theory was everything the show did well, and a bit of what it did poorly, wrapped into one hourlong package," says Ben Travers. "It didn’t try to do too much or too little. It didn’t buck expectations, shift formats, or try to set a new standard for series finales. It really wasn’t surprising or all that ambitious, but then again, neither was The Big Bang Theory. If anything, Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady’s goodbye to normcore geek culture went out of its way to avoid changing much of anything, despite spending its first half learning to accept the inevitability of change as a universal constant...What The Big Bang Theory did best was make time for its characters to just be — to sit and talk and eat and speculate about impossible pop culture pairings or concoct ludicrous big-brained ideas. While not as sharp in its dialogue or performances as the mecca of friendship sitcoms, Friends, Big Bang treated its ending like one precious, yet not too precious, final hour to spend with the gang. And as other endgames go horrifically off-the-rails, this one felt refreshingly true to itself."

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