The Big Bang Theory the Complete Series Blu-ray Review

Nov 19th, 2019 by Brian White

It'southward time for my almanac autumn ritual with something a niggling special for all your Christmas Wishlists.The Big Bang Theory returns one time again to the Blu-ray format.  Withal, the buck stops hither literally speaking. Sadly this twelfth year of the show was its final. I even so feel like they could have kept going with or without the character of Sheldon Cooper, but who am I make to make such a hypothesis like that. Truth be told though I am excited to be once again covering this annual release for now the sixth year in a row.  You can find Gregg Senko's Blu-ray review coverage of Season 3 HERE and I took over in season 7 HERE, 8 Here, ix HERE, x Hither and finally eleven HERE.  And now information technology's time for the complete twelfth and final season on Blu-ray.  Every bit stated by me in prior reviews Warner Bros. e'er does a blindside up job on these seasonal Blu-ray releases in terms of a great looking presentation.  That's why I'thousand overjoyed to be tackling this serial again on Blu-ray, but look!  That's not it!  Warner Bros. hooked me upward!  Today we're non only here to gloat all things Big Bang Theory Season 12, only the COMPLETE Series!  That's right!  Downwardly below we're going to pay tribute to all 12 seasons of The Big Bang Theory and take an sectional expect at what'southward all within this big box gear up.  I'm excited!  You lot tin can't see me, but I have smile on my face from ear-to-ear.  Permit'southward become started!

Series

Believe information technology or non, but in its 12th and last flavor, The Large Bang Theory averaged audiences of nearly 18 million weekly viewers, cementing its status equally the number one circulate sitcom across all demographics and the undisputed number one series on CBS among Total Viewers.  That statistic alone should suffice to justify my conclusion to score The Big Bang Theory as a whole "consummate series" a P-Due east-R-F-E-C-T 5-doggie score.  Alright, so I may be a bit biased.  I do know for a fact that a lot of my peers notice the show repulsive and there are those that become to smashing lengths to explain why the show is a imitation representation of geek culture.  Life to me is manner also brusk to fence most such petty sentiments.  What'due south of import to me is that for 12 years these guys and girls of The Big Bang Theory made me express joy, cry and grow old with them.  In essence they experience like an extended family to my fiancé and I.  And you know what they say near family.  You don't turn your back on them.  Certain in that location are a few episodes where even I will agree weren't perfect, but every bit a whole The Big Blindside Theory volition go downward equally i my well-nigh beloved and cherished sitcoms ever right there alongside Seinfeld, Friends, Sanford & Son and more than.

For 12 years at present, fans have been delighted watching their favorite physicists Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Sheldon (Jim Parsons) navigate the complex universe of everyday life along with the girl next door, Penny (Kaley Cuoco), and boyfriend scientists Howard (Simon Helberg), Raj (Kunal Nayyar), Amy (Mayim Bialik) and Bernadette (Melissa Rauch), also as other love characters and endless invitee stars.  The show literally evolved from four hopeless geeks and the token girl next door to difficult life lessons learned, family and relationships, undeniable comradeship and then much more (basically all the means they ultimately matured).  When I mentioned up in a higher place that I grew quondam with these characters I actually did.  It was during a fourth dimension in my life where I needed an extended family similar this and honestly to this day my fiancé and I however sentry an episode of The Big Bang Theory every day during dinner.  I judge that's some other way they all became a 2nd family to us too.  We shared our tabular array with them and still practice.  The prove may be over, but thanks to this comparative set the testify will always live on in our hearts and that of the residue of the countless Big Bang Theory fans out there.  You know who you are!

Before I go into a quick summary of season twelve and how information technology all wraps up I do want to take a moment to reflect on 1 not so nice idea I have.  I find it heartbreaking that the bear witness's producers didn't seem to have any faith in the show existing without Jim Parsons.  Don't get me incorrect we have all enjoyed his zany graphic symbol of Sheldon Cooper over the by twelve years, but I believe the show had equal if not better characters they could take focused on.  Major characters aside, whom all seem like they would have hands signed on for a thirteenth season, it'due south the supporting characters like Stuart (Kevin Sussman) for case that I could hands lose myself in a spinoff on.  There were and then many dynamics of Howard, Raj, Penny and Leonard'southward journeys to examine too.  While I felt the show losing a piddling steam in the latter seasons, I ever felt the minor characters like Stuart or Denise (Lauren Lapkus) were just starting to take off.  However, I digress.  All I'm trying to say is that for me the lord's day doesn't rising and set around Sheldon Cooper.  I hateful he has his own show for that (Immature Sheldon).  I held out hoping that either Kaley or Johnny would continue the show live, merely alas the 1-hour flavor finale came and went this past May.  That was all she wrote!  A boy tin can still dream though.

The last thing I desire get off my chest before we briefly explore the twelfth season is an absolute fact.  The Warner Bros. tapings for The Big Blindside Theory were ane difficult ticket to acquire.  I came close many times, concluded upwards equally an alternate for a few and even had a ticket once only unable to learn a 2d i for my fiancé.  That would non have been a pretty conversation to have.  Can y'all imagine how that would go down?  Hey honey I know your favorite evidence is The Big Bang Theory, but would you listen if I fly to California to see a taping of a evidence in the 12th season?  I would never practice that to her hence why I gave upwards the only ticket I ever was able to get.  However, I did make all her dreams come truthful in 2017 when I got her as shut equally possible (in a literal sense in the printing pit next to the Hall H stage) to the cast in San Diego at Comic-Con that year.  Y'all tin read all about that adventure Here.

Flavor 2 of Immature Sheldon concluded with quite a bombshell (don't worry no spoilers are contained within this paragraph).  We learned something nearly Sheldon that I thought for sure we'd meet play out in the final season of Big Bang Theory, merely I was completely wrong.  They never went at that place and instead the big news belonged to another couple on the show.  So I will digress there.  I would say Season 12 off the show really tested the relationships (parenthood, new dearest, marriages and even arranged ones).  There were a few shockers that I didn't see coming, but for the most function the episodes leading up until the final one never hinted at any doom and gloom (besides the conflict of whether or not Amy and Sheldon would ever get that Nobel Prize).  The mode they left things the show could easily pick up in another ten years without missing a beat.  There was one event, however, I did correctly predict.  Perhaps some of the best moments of the show involved not only the fantastic guest stars the bear witness frequently had (Bob Newhart, Sean Astin, William Shatner, Kevin Smith, Joe Manganiello, Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Michelle Gellar and so many more than), but as well the crossover moments between the Large Bang Theory and Young Sheldon, which saw Jerry O'Connell as George Cooper.  For all of you who want an exhaustive, but outstanding epitomize of the final 2 episodes I would definitely recommend hit up Jessica Radloff'southward humongous coverage of it all Hither.

Video

The below critique of the 1080p video presentations housed on the various Blu-ray Discs is an overall wait at the entire series equally yr after yr every season has been rinse, wash and repeat in terms of infrequent quality.

• Encoding:AVC MPEG-4
• Resolution:1080p
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Size: BD-50s
• Clarity/Detail: I said it before each year I review The Big Bang Theoryon Blu-ray and I'll say it over again hither.  The level of detail and clarity is outstanding in every season on the Blu-ray format.  Compared to their initial television broadcasts, this IS the penultimate manner to experience The Large Bang Theory.  If you watch the evidence with eagle eyes like mine, you tin can't assistance noticing all the little details in the background, easter eggs and textures abound in the wearable, piece of furniture, collectibles (my favorite part), electronics and and then much more than.  Despite the characters in the foreground, everything you run across onscreen is eye-popping razor abrupt.  Every time I watch an episode I see things that I missed the first time around in the broadcast due to the clarity of information technology all on the Blu-ray format similar a nascence mark on Mayim's right hand for example.  As you lot know from my past writings I also feel like all the petty artifacts, trinkets and Easter eggs found in the backgrounds here are about as astonishing as the show itself.  I know it'southward shot for television and it doesn't accept that cinematic experience like a film on Blu-ray, only anyone that nitpicks the clarity of this presentation are just out of their Vulcan minds.
• Depth: Because of the clarity and sharpness of the epitome, the onscreen characters all have that three-dimensional pop we know and honey on the Blu-ray format since its inception.  Therefore, the onscreen subjects are so separated from the backgrounds, which are still incredibly rich and detailed in themselves, that the image seems to keep and on forever in the depth department.  Bazinga!  It's the attention to item in the sets that makes this show and then spectacular to behold on Blu-ray.  Information technology's also these sets that seemingly keep forever in the depth department.  You have to love it!  Just exception to this would be the blue screen moments outside windows when driving in automobiles.
• Black Levels: Blackness levels are all deep, solid and inky throughout here like the ink in the iconic comic books the guys on the show all bow down to and worship.
• Colour Reproduction:  Dull is a word yous can never use to describe this Blu-ray telly.  I always notice the colors in this Blu-ray's video presentation to be like the show itself, rich, full of sprite and of course so very vivacious and vibrant!  Howard is always able to pull off all those amazing, eye popping colors and clothing schemes that I can never imagine myself e'er having the backbone to effort.  Ha ha.
• Mankind Tones: The skin tones all await natural throughout thank you to the excellent prepare lighting.
• Dissonance/Artifacts: There's absolutely nothing my eyes could find here that I believe could ever feasibly distract you from enjoying these sharp, vibrant, picture-perfect Blu-ray presentations.  At that place are no banding problems, dissonance or whatsoever other nasty anomaly to complain about here.

Audio

Like up higher up with the video the beneath critique of the DTS-Hd Master Sound surroundings presentations housed on the various Blu-ray Discs is an overall look at the entire series equally year after year every flavour has been rinse, launder and repeat in terms of consistent quality.

• Sound Format(south): English 5.1 DTS-HD Chief Sound (Except Season 3), English 5.1 Dolby Digital (Season 3 simply), Spanish 2.0 Dolby Digital (Except Seasons 3 & 4)
• Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French
• Dynamics: Merely similar I stated up above in the video section this ane is very predictable, only virtually importantly consistent year later on year.The Big Bang Theory is a television one-act so don't expect me to write about any dynamic miracles hither.  While I'grand sure we all want the dynamics to be larger than life hither, in that location's null wrong with them just being satisfactory either when it comes to grading television comedies.    It'southward the dialogue that matters nigh here.  That'southward where the master focus is.  Don't go me wrong though, there are some noticeable moments, but for the most part it is what it is, a bunch of geeks sitting around in an apartment having fun with their inner geeks and awkward social insecurities, and their non-cease shaky relationships and science experiments too!
• Depression Frequency Extension: The LFE is very subtle and practically non-existent at times.  This is a primetime one-act, that'due south information technology…nothing more and nothing less.  So you can kind of draw your own conclusion as to how much the LFE channel will be employed throughout, but however it is there when necessary or called upon.
• Surround Sound Presentation: Residuum bodacious, the surrounds are here, only similar the LFE at times you lot have to seek them out and listen for them.  Quite honestly, yous really don't notice the rears at all until the traditional transition screens appear that catapult us the viewers from ane scene to some other or that segregate the commercial breaks.  That familiar swishing and swirling sound creeps upwardly and pumps up the rears behind you and at times straight at y'all through the center channel.  I tin can run across y'all always wanting more of grade.  There'due south ever that Bare Naked Ladies opening sequence likewise for some surroundings sound activity.  Ha ha.  Who are nosotros kidding here?  This is very front heavy and rightfully so.  Truth be told though the audience track and lilliputian nuances can also be heard in the rear channels too.
• Dialogue Reproduction:  Spoken words are spectacular here in this category.  After all, and I'm starting to sound like a broken tape I know, but The Big Blindside Theory is a one-act we're watching and you couldn't ask for anything more in the dialogue department.  From the laugh track to the loud, clear and intelligible dialogue throughout not one spoken word is missed here.  Hear you I exercise!

Extras

The Big Bang Theory: The Consummate Series, equally reviewed here, includes all 279 original episodes from the 12 seasons.  The complete set also features nearly 12 hours of extras along with an boosted disc including three exclusive and never-before-seen featurettes (that's the real icing on the cake here).   This special Limited Edition Blu-ray Boxset comes housed in a beautiful lay-flat book with a fun front popular-up (as shown in our exclusive unboxing pictures below) and includes a digital copy that gives you all 12 seasons of the show.  Since we don't have a split up review for The Big Bang Theory's 12th season on Blu-ray I exercise want to briefly mention the extras from that set up here (and in more particular below).  The 12th flavor Blu-ray extras include a featurette on the final episode with behind-the-scenes and cast interviews, the CBS special "Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Bang Farewell," the 2018 Comic-Con Panel, a hilarious gag reel and more.  Before we go into everything establish here in the way of extras I desire to unbox this bad boy complete with exclusive photos below of me doing so.  Come on!  Allow'south rip this boxset wide open and have a closer await inside!

The beneath thumbnails are all clickable and enable you lot to enlarge the view for maximum viewing pleasance.

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Here'due south a look at all the sides of the box before nosotros rip that compress-wrap plastic off and allow it breath.

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Here's a closer look at the front end and back of the ii books inside.

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Now let'due south take a look at the volume with the white covers which contains all these great B&W shots and guide pages for all 279 episodes and what's on each of the 25 Blu-ray Discs (I've only included one page of the latter as an instance beneath).

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And finally let's take a closer look at the popup book that houses all 24 Blu-ray Discs (see below for details most the 25th disc).  Each page contains the 2 Blu-ray Discs per season with the 25th disc being the one that houses the exclusive extras in this Consummate Series boxset.

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The below are The Big Blindside Theory: The Twelfth and Final Season extras, which we have never covered before on the site.

• Unraveling the Mystery: A Big Blindside Goodbye Special (Hd, 21:17) – Here Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco accept fans down retention lane past sharing some backstage secrets and favorite personal memories.
• The Last Days of The Big Bang Theory (HD, 14:eleven) – In this extra we go behind the scenes of the series finale equally the writers, cast and crew say adieu and they take their final bows.  Keep your Kleenex handy.  How sad!  This i also includes preparations for the concluding episode and snippets of the tabular array read.  The cast, especially Simon, look really sad at this tabular array read.  Damn Jim Parsons!  It was truly heartbreaking seeing Kaley and Johnny say goodbye to the audience here.  Actually though everybody was crying at the table read.  So sad!  This was a great, but very depressing watch.
• The Big Bang Theory's Impact (Hard disk drive, 7:33) – Here we see the bear witness's creator, Chuck Lorre, and the cast honor the start form of recipients of The Big Bang Theory Scholarship Endowment, who will be graduating from UCLA in Jump 2019 (or should I say would take).
• The Sweet Spot (Hard disk, 12:42) – Here yous get to meet the man, Mark Sweet, who has ben warming up and entertaining the live studio audiences (200 people) before every single taping.  Holy wow!  What a smashing job!  This gives you a bang-up look at what information technology'southward like to be at a taping.  It was interesting to larn how Mark got his start in entertaining audiences at simply 9 years of historic period.  Squeamish!
• The Big Blindside Theory Cast Visits Ellen (Hd, 12:29) – You guessed it!  In this supplement the bandage visits The Ellen DeGeneres Show to chat about the series finale.
• Best of The Big Bang Theory Comic-Con 2018 Panel (Hard disk drive, 39:25) –  This i involves the writers and some of the cast on stage at Comic-Con last year.  I wasn't there for this one so it'south non that special for me like the 2017 panel was.  I'm merely maxim.
• Gag Reel (HD, 7:05) – This is your usual bunch of flubs, messed up commitment of lines and action moments gone awry.  The best ones in my opinion were with Kathy Bates.

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The Large Bang Theory: The Complete Series on Blu-ray, every bit reviewed hither, includes all the below mentioned extras spread beyond the 25-disc set.

The Big Bang Theory: The Consummate Series boxset includes nigh 12 hours of previously released bonus content from Seasons 1 through 12, plus the following exclusive special features.  Sadly these 3 "exclusive" extras are all housed on the 25th disc in this boxset, which is inexplicably a DVD.  A DVD!!!  I couldn't believe it when I removed the 25th disc and it was not a Blu-ray, but an SD DVD.  Ugh!  What a complete bummer.  I can't limited that sentiment enough.  The three extras yous're paying for hither in this Blu-ray Boxset are housed on a DVD sourced in SD.  I'm at a loss for words.  Lamentable guys.  Now you know why this section didn't get a perfect score from me.

• The Big Bang Theory: A Retrospective (SD, 28:34) – This is it ladies and gentlemen.  Ever wonder how it all began…the idea…the concept…how it all came together…etc…it'south all here!  This one zooms in shut to explore how the characters were created and ultimately fleshed out.  It's truly interesting to meet where the bandage all came from.
• BBT's Greatest Hits: 12 Years of One-act in 24 Minutes (Hd, 25:05) – This one is what the title advertises…quick clips of episodes in order from every flavor.
• All The Stars in the BBT Universe (Hard disk, 12:20) – This ane recaps all the cameos, guest stars and scientists that appeared on the prove over its 12-flavour run.  Information technology's pretty cool reliving all these memories with all the big names that graced the stage here.

Summary

Well every bit you can see from my biased series score upward above I'1000 admittedly smitten by this complete collection of i of my all-time favorite sitcoms, The Large Blindside Theory.  If you're a fan and you don't have this on your Christmas Wishlist, what are you lot waiting for?  I practise completely get it though if you already own seasons 1-11 on Blu-ray.  What'southward in it for you?  That questions begs to find out how big of a Large Bang Theory fan you are I guess.  Yous're getting 3 exclusive extras hither, but sadly they are only on a DVD (hence not a 5-star score from me hither in this summary section).  If that's not enough, then you're getting the episode booklet and a popup book that houses all the seasons on Blu-ray Discs (as pictured up in a higher place).  Therefore, if the latter ii mentioned items don't appeal to you, then all you lot take to practise is click Hither to bring Flavour 12 home on Blu-ray to "consummate" your Large Bang Theory collection.  The choice is yours.  The Force is strong in you.  I'm confident you'll make the right decision as to what works all-time for you lot.  Me, on the other paw, I desire them both…this Complete Series and the standalone release of Flavor 12 on Blu-ray.  It could exist worse.  They could accept released all of these season on DVD only.  That would have been so humbug of Warner Bros.  Thankfully that's not the case.  They only inexplicably did it to the three extras you're ownership this set up for (sigh).  Merry Christmas to me!  I tin can finally have my cake and eat it too hither for the final time.  Notwithstanding, fret non every bit the spirit of The Large Bang Theory yet lives on in Young Sheldon and in our hearts for the rest of our lives.

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