Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Stars React to Main Title Sequence Tango — Grade the Young Sheldon Spinoff
Marriage is a delicate dance, but Georgie and Mandy seem to have all the right moves.
Like its predecessor, Young Sheldon — and before it, The Big Bang Theory — Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage delivers a main title sequence to remember. Not three minutes into its series premiere, the CBS comedy unveils an elaborate opening wherein series stars Montana Jordan and Emily Osment engage in a provocative tango — which, according to series co-creator Steve Holland , is meant to represent the "push-pull dance" of their fiery relationship.
"We were looking for something that would be interesting and eye catching — especially coming off of Big Bang and Young Sheldon, where the main title segments were always a big, identifiable piece of those shows," Holland tells TVLine. His fellow co-creator (and BBT franchise veteran) Steve Molaro "came up with the idea for the tango, and it just felt perfect in that, at the core of this relationship, there's a lot of passion... but there's also a lot of struggle, and there's fire, and there's fighting.... It seemed like it would be unexpected, and unique, and we started to get excited about that." Then came "the fun of getting to go to Emily and Montana and saying, 'Hey, we've got this idea.'"
Osment admits that it was "slightly terrifying" when Molaro sat them down and explained the concept. "There's the immediate reaction of fear," she says with a laugh, "and then you get excited about it. Montana and I worked with [Jonathan and Oksana Platero], two incredible choreographers from Dancing With the Stars, and we just had the best time."
Jordan, meanwhile, had no idea what he was in for, telling TVLine, "We might have done a little bit of two-stepping down in Texas, but that's about it. We definitely weren't doing no tangoing. It wasn't on my bucket list, but I'm glad I know it now. And I feel a whole lot looser now that I've done those moves."
The choreography, of course, was only one piece of the puzzle. "We put a lot of thought into how it would look and where it should take place," Holland explains. He and his fellow producers asked themselves, "Should it take place on a ballroom stage or on a dark set? And we thought it was better that it was on our set. There's something more interesting about all of this happening in the kitchen, and in the living room, with this domestic background [that is] stylistically heightened. And our [director of photography] Buzz [Feitshans IV], who was our DP on Young Sheldon... did a really great job. We smoked the stage, we had different colored lights coming through the windows... it just looks amazing."
Last but not least was wardrobe — and it was Jordan's footwear that ultimately caused the most debate. "We were going back and forth because they didn't know if they wanted me in cowboy boots, or if they wanted me in dance shoes," Jordan recalls. "Because in Young Sheldon, I was in Converses all the time, you know? But I was fighting for some cowboy boots... and they finally give into me."
