My mother has recently become obsessed with this show, and she imagines it's the sort of thing I should love. In actual fact I vary between thinking it's ok and not being able to stay in the same room while it's on.

This is due in part to my having a ridiculously over-sensitive embarrassment squick (you should see me when somebody puts Faulty Towers on, I'm told it's hilarious for other people) and often thinking Sheldon is being perfectly reasonable at times when the show is making it clear I'm supposed to find him ridiculous. Endearing, sure, but ridiculous.

Which is sort of veering off topic, but she's watching up to four episodes a day and frequently asking me to explain things and I just have all these feeeelings on the topic, as you can probably tell.

One of which is, yeah, I totally hate Leonard. In the episodes I've seen it feels like he's just hanging out with these guys so he can feel like he's winning somehow, so he can be on top of the hierarchy when in any other social group he'd be at the bottom. Sort of the geek boy variation of the trope of a skinny girl having fat friends. It doesn't feel like he actually likes any of the others at all.