WARNING: SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 7 OF GMFM!
Georgie and Mandy’s First Marriage is the sequel series to Young Sheldon. Showing us what life is like with Georgie and Mandy (who was introduced in late Season 5 of YS) and their baby Cece after the events of Georgie’s father, George’s death in the YS finale.
The pilot, “The 6:10 to Lubbock” is set 3 months after the YS finale. It aired on October 17, 2024. Then episodes 2-5 were released from October 24-November 14, 2024, respectively until they went on a two week break for Thanksgiving. Then, the show returned on December 5 and 12, 2024 to air episodes 6 & 7. Before going on ANOTHER break for the holidays. Now, I theorized that the show would return for episode 8 on January 8, 2025, but apparently I was way wrong.
Episode 7 is titled “An Old Mustang”. Where Georgie and Jim become focused on fixing an old 1950’s mustang. But they find out that they have to take a road trip for the last part they need to fix the mustang. Georgie convinces Connor to go on the road trip with them, to which eventually Connor agrees. They go on the road trip where Jim expresses his worry for Connor and what will happen to him after Jim and Audrey die. Connor overhears this. (Also, there is a second plot line where Mandy and Audrey try to find ideas for Cece’s new nursery. That is a less important subplot. So I am skipping it for this.) Anyway, the boys stop at a diner where Connor vanishes. When Georgie finds him we find out he got a job as the person who picks up dishes. Jim tells him to get into the car and leaves. Georgie gives Connor words of motivation and Connor quits and they leave the diner to go join Jim. Back home, Audrey asks Connor how the trip was. Connor says that it was fine but he was glad Georgie was there because he is a great person. Leaving Audrey (who’s not really that all nice to Georgie) in silence, thinking. Episode 7 is a great episode. It is one of my favorites in Season 1. I think the main plot line is so well written and it is a very poignant story in my opinion.
Back to what I was I was saying earlier, I thought that the show would make its return on January 8, 2025, but apparently I was way wrong. After reading up on things, I gathered two things:
The title for episode 8 is titled “A House Divided” and it will guest star Zoe Perry and Matt Hobby as Mary and Pastor Jeff, respectively.
The air date for episode 8 is January 30, 2025.
Yes, you read that correctly. January 30, 2025 is the date the GMFM is set to return.
In October, the show was picked up for the back nine meaning the show got picked up for a full season of 22 episodes. While that is great, how are they gonna pull it off? Young Sheldon took many breaks. But it still maintained that Early/Mid May season finale. What do you think? Tell me in the comments!