Miss Seinfeld?
Then watch Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm. I just happened to have caught an episode on Arts Central, and it feels like Seinfeld all over again. To the uninitiated, Larry David, together with Jerry Seinfeld, is the other brilliant mind who co-created probably one of the most successful sitcom ever....Seinfeld.
In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry actually plays himself...Larry David, the TV producer who co-created Seinfeld. It's easy to see his influence on the characters of Seinfeld...he is as cynical as Jerry, as self-obssessed as George, as witty as Elaine, and as neurotic as Kramer, even sharing some physical resemblence, except that he's bald compared to Kramer's crazy full locks.
Like Seinfeld, this show is also about people going through their meaningless petty little lives; it's a show about NOTHING. In this episode I saw, it shows Larry trying to end his relationship with his shrink, just because he saw him wearing a thong at the beach. It's absolutely hilarious to see how he tried in vain to convince the shrink that he is CURED, and he didn't need his service anymore.
I felt a big void after Seinfeld ended its run. In many ways, Seinfeld was more than a sitcom, it was a philosophy. In a world of information overload, shallow commercialisation, touch-n-go relationships, only Seinfeld could make sense of it all. After Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm is probably the next best thing, until or unless Jerry and Larry decide to collaborate again.
By the way, Curb Your Enthusiasm is not exactly a sitcom, it's feels more like a reality show. The absence of canned laughter gives it a unique realness. Tuesday, 9.30pm, on Arts Central. Watch it!
In Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry actually plays himself...Larry David, the TV producer who co-created Seinfeld. It's easy to see his influence on the characters of Seinfeld...he is as cynical as Jerry, as self-obssessed as George, as witty as Elaine, and as neurotic as Kramer, even sharing some physical resemblence, except that he's bald compared to Kramer's crazy full locks.
Like Seinfeld, this show is also about people going through their meaningless petty little lives; it's a show about NOTHING. In this episode I saw, it shows Larry trying to end his relationship with his shrink, just because he saw him wearing a thong at the beach. It's absolutely hilarious to see how he tried in vain to convince the shrink that he is CURED, and he didn't need his service anymore.
I felt a big void after Seinfeld ended its run. In many ways, Seinfeld was more than a sitcom, it was a philosophy. In a world of information overload, shallow commercialisation, touch-n-go relationships, only Seinfeld could make sense of it all. After Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm is probably the next best thing, until or unless Jerry and Larry decide to collaborate again.
By the way, Curb Your Enthusiasm is not exactly a sitcom, it's feels more like a reality show. The absence of canned laughter gives it a unique realness. Tuesday, 9.30pm, on Arts Central. Watch it!
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