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Friday, June 11, 2010

A little postmodern music box a show : Seinfeld Reunion episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm

I guess it's no news that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is consistently funny and well-written. I won't have too much to say about each episode, but the Seinfeld reunion episode, aside from blowing me away once again by the clever plot construction, is an amusing little postmodern music box, as we watch a show about characters talking about a Seinfeld reunion, but of course to bring the actors into the show to talk about the reunion show, which they may never do, Larry David does in fact create the (nonexistant) reunion show. And we experience exactly the kind of displacement that the character, Larry David, frets about: oh, he's gotten fat, she still looks great, he's much more sedate in real life, etc. We're watching the aging actors, not the show. All that set off against the subplot of the head of NBC, based on someone of course (Jeff Zucker?), offers comped Lakers tix but they end up being nosebleeders, which drives Larry D crazy. Most viewers should be pissed off at that - what makes you so special? You, can afford the best seats - you ought to be made to sit in the rafters with the rest of us. What a penance! But it's funny nevertheless as he sees the studio head courtside, with David Spade, and feels slighted and calls him on his cell and, through binocks, watches the exec screen the call. Show is building toward Larry (maybe) getting back with Cheryl, who wants a part in the reunion show. Funny dialogues about type of apology - somewhere between grudging and sincere - and about coordinating the tip when you split the tab.

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