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Annie Potts Slams Young Sheldon Finale

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Annie Potts, who played Meemaw on "Young Sheldon," said in a new book about the show that she was disappointed the finale brought back Jim Parsons as an adult Sheldon who seemed "mean and unchanged," calling it "just selfishness."

Joe Maddon managed the Cubs to a World Series title in 2016, not 10 years ago as of 2026.

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Annie Potts, who played Meemaw on "Young Sheldon," said in a new book about the show that she was disappointed the finale brought back Jim Parsons as an adult Sheldon who seemed "mean and unchanged," calling it "just selfishness."

Annie Potts, who portrayed a younger version of Sheldon’s Meemaw on Young Sheldon, revealed how she felt about the show’s finale, disagreeing with how adult Sheldon remained "mean and unchanged" in Parsons' finale cameo. https://t.co/HLQkL0V2nR https://t.co/7gjI5Gt1nw

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Joe Maddon managed the Cubs to a World Series title in 2016, not 10 years ago as of 2026.

Wrote this for Free Expression page of the Wall Street Journal. Great insight on Brewers Pat Murphy from Joe Maddon who won a World Series for a midwest city 10 years ago with the Cubs https://t.co/mbjCrL3E6k

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CAnnie Potts is not happy with how Young Sheldon ended, and honestly? She's got a point.
LMeemaw herself? What did she say?
CIGN just highlighted a new book where she says the finale brought back Jim Parsons as adult Sheldon, and he was still... mean.
LThe voiceover, right? The grown-up Sheldon narrating his memoir.
CThat's the one. She called him 'mean and unchanged.' Said it was 'just selfishness.'
LShe's not wrong. The whole point of Young Sheldon was that this kid grows into someone with warmth.
CBut the finale undercut that. It suggested seven seasons of growth led nowhere.
LI see both sides. The original Big Bang Theory Sheldon was always self-centered.
CSure, but the spinoff was supposed to explain him, not freeze him in amber.
LIt's a prequel. You can't just change who he becomes because the tone is sweeter.
CBut you can show contradictions. Warm kid, complicated adult. That's more interesting than 'he never changed.'
LFair. And Annie Potts played that warmth for seven seasons. She earned the right to be annoyed.
CShe also said she'd do a Meemaw spinoff tomorrow. So this isn't bitterness.
LIt's a performer who loved her character and felt the story cheated her.

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