Seinfeld the TV series

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Wayne wrote:

> I never understood what the buzz on 
> Seinfeld was all about.  

I didn't either, the usual Seinfeld episode
being set in a Manhattan apartment with 
3 agitated friends of Seinfeld running in 
and out and doing shtick humor.

Life in NYC is a very special pressure-cooker
and commercial TV and Hollywood has 
taken full advantage of it in many many 
successful comedy and crime series.

And in terms of NYC based entertainment,
the 4 making up the Seinfeld gang were
cleverly type cast. So George the short
bald guy is more than believable as a 
horny overweight bachelor, Elaine the
ex-girlfriend can mug convincingly, 
Kramer the tall excentric big city doofus 
does physical comedy as good as the 
next second banana.

Compared to their personas, Seinfeld
is wan and anethetized, a comic if
comic he be of very slight gifts.

Yet the episode of how the Seinfelders 
wound up watching the wrong movie 
(Rachel Rachel, the story of the erotic 
awakening of a young woman on her 
journey from Milan to Minsk) is 
exceptionally good (I've seen it twice 
and I am right about this, right I tell 
you). <-anything I say twice is true
Perhaps it works better because it 
isn't set in an apartment.

The usual Seinfeld episode set in an 
apartment or at a restaurant table is 
predictable and boring. It was said 
that the program was about nothing 
or close to it.

Mike