Seinfeld 10 years later
(NBC)
10 of 74
'Seinfeld', 1990-1998
'Seinfeld', 1990-1998
The comedy of the obsessive-compulsive, "Seinfeld" was never about "nothing" — it's just that its concerns were so fantastically trivial as to be below the idea of premise. A kind of sitcomical Greek tragedy about flawed character and the inescapability of fate. ("Oedipus Rex" being the model of the delayed punch line.)
Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
The comedy of the obsessive-compulsive, "Seinfeld" was never about "nothing" — it's just that its concerns were so fantastically trivial as to be below the idea of premise. A kind of sitcomical Greek tragedy about flawed character and the inescapability of fate. ("Oedipus Rex" being the model of the delayed punch line.)
