I'm not happy with the direction that the show has taken recently either. Sheldon being abrasive is expected, but Penny now barks a lot, as does Bernadette, and now the new girl arrives with issues. Then they take the very benign character of Stuart, whom I thought would end up a happy-go-lucky caregiver to Howard's mom, and they begin to make him combative with Howard. One antagonist is fun, but not 3/4 of the cast!