Warning! The following contains spoilers from the Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage two-part Season 1 finale. Stream it with a Paramount+ subscription and read at your own risk!
While we expected Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage to shake things up in the Season 1 finale by introducing Mandy's ex, I was surprised to see them pull the plot-point trigger on Georgie buying the tire shop from Jim. While I assumed in my live blog coverage that Georgie would get the money from his meemaw and her new side hustle, his doting mom Mary was the one to come through by putting up the family home as collateral. The Big Bang Theory already gave us an idea of how this potentially sticky situation might play out, though EP Steve Holland has me thinking otherwise.
TBBT reintroduced Georgie as an adult and revealed he owned the popular Dr. Tire franchise in Texas. Additionally, Sheldon revealed that Mary "sold" their childhood home at one point, so does this mean Georgie's partnership with Ruben turned into a raging success? TVLine asked Holland about it, and his answer makes me a bit worried.
Anything’s possible. We haven’t thought that far ahead yet, but one of the things that we liked about [Mary putting the house up as collateral] is that it makes the stakes higher. Georgie has always had this drive to succeed, but now there’s a lot of pressure on him. It’s not just his future that he’s risking. It’s also his mother and his sister’s house that he’s risking. We like piling as much on Georgie’s shoulders as we can.
Well, that's concerning. As if it wasn't depressing enough keeping track of all the reasons that Georgie and Mandy will end their marriage, now we have to worry about the possibility of a retcon in which Zoe Perry's Mary will lose her house? This show has found humor in some of the more tense moments, but can it continue to do so after resting such high stakes on the shoulders of its main characters?
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It's worth noting that if Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage switched up something previously established in The Big Bang Theory, it would not be the first time a spinoff had done so. While Sheldon said in TBBT that his father had an affair, Young Sheldon later showed that the character misunderstood the situation.
One has to wonder what would happen if Mary lost her home, because it's not like she could move in with Georgie at this time. He's already living with Mandy's parents, and considering that Audrey and Mary don't like each other, I could see it being a disaster, if not an also incredibly cramped living situation.
I also think that Steve Holland was being cryptic because directly answering that question would be a spoiler for future episodes of Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage. It also may restrict the freedom of what they could do in the writers' room if he explicitly says one thing will or won't happen, assuming they don't already know how that will play out.
If the latter is true, I hope they get it sorted soon because Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage will return to CBS for Season 2 this fall. I can hardly wait for new episodes, but fortunately, there's some good television coming up this summer that should tide us over in the meantime.