Don’t tell Mom.
– played on a distorted, slightly glitchy VHS filter. The theme song is slowed down, almost mournful. ACT ONE
I am sitting. Standing would be inefficient for grief. I’ve calculated that the average mourning period can be compressed to 6.3 hours if you— young sheldon s07e01 workprint
Margaret—
Scene three. (long pause) He told me I was going to be fine. That he was proud of me. That he was sorry he wouldn’t see what I become. Don’t tell Mom
He sets the tape down. Walks inside.
Sheldon is at his desk, surrounded by physics journals and a VCR hooked to a small TV. He’s editing a VHS tape—the “workprint” of his own life. ACT ONE I am sitting
(into a tape recorder) Log entry: Day 4 post-George Sr. The entropy in this household has increased 400%. Mother is catatonic. Sister is hostile. Brother has become a premature patriarch. I have chosen to re-edit reality.