Young Sheldon S01e04 Full |top|rip -

Mary, his mother (played with perfect steel-wool tenderness by Zoe Perry), does the logical thing for a Southern Baptist mother in the 1980s: She takes him to a therapist. The bulk of the "fullrip" experience hinges on the interaction between Sheldon and Dr. Goetsch (a fantastic cameo by The Big Bang Theory ’s own John Rubinstein). For the first time, we see Sheldon try to use logic to defeat psychology—and he fails.

The silence that follows is deafening. Iain Armitage, the young actor playing Sheldon, does something remarkable here. He stops performing the "genius" and just looks like a terrified little boy. He admits, in a whisper, that he is trying to control everything because he can’t control his father’s health. young sheldon s01e04 fullrip

Here’s our fullrip breakdown of one of the most pivotal early episodes. The episode opens with a classic Sheldonian crisis. He is trying to do his morning ritual (bathroom, breakfast, bus) but he gets trapped in a loop of flicking a light switch. It’s not OCD in the clinical sense the show later clarifies—it’s an anxiety response. He’s worried about his dad’s health (after a previous heart scare) and his brain is short-circuiting. Mary, his mother (played with perfect steel-wool tenderness