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Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Listen, I don't want to poo on everyone's favorite show, and I recognize that there are moments of genius and it was a cultural institution. But I do wanna say that if you don't like or get this show, you're not stupid/lame! It's a really silly show and it's just not funny to some people. They're constantly shrieking and they're terrible people and it's like....eyeroll. Sorry.

It has been over nineteen years since the show about a stand-up New-York City comedian, "neat freak" named Jerry Seinfeld, and his three colorful friends, a loser, a doofus, and a neurotic ex-girlfriend aired its final episode on May 14, 1998 but still no sitcom on TV has come close to its incomparable brilliancy which lies in the ability to make somehow a viewer addicted to the narcissist and selfish characters that constantly put themselves into the pointless and absurd situations. I still remember how I became a fan. One evening, the episode called "The Rye" was playing on TV. I stopped, watched for a few minutes, and the rest is history. I fell in love instantly and forever. Since that night, I watched the new episodes and re-runs whenever it was possible and I have become one of the millions of fans of the greatest show about nothing ever written, directed, and produced. In its best episodes, "Seinfeld" is perfection that no other show would ever achieve.Even now after all these years I keep asking myself why the show about four rather selfish, egocentric, immature, often back-stabbing and outrageous characters who are afraid of commitments has been so universally loved and admired? Maybe we can see ourselves in them. Or, the secret to Seinfeld's success was the misanthropic Larry David, the failed comedian but talented writer who uses humor derived from awkward social situations, and his collaboration with Jerry Seinfeld? Or maybe as a great work of art, the show defies any explanation? The sitcom has given us so many unforgettable minutes of joy, that it will never be replaced. Even Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David's baby in all its greatness is not as enjoyable as "Seinfeld." Curb Your Enthusiasm is about George Costanza whose dreams came true - he is rich and had for several seasons a beautiful loving wife but he does not have Jerry, Cramer, and Elaine in his everyday life. And their absence shows.The show gave us plenty of great episodes - The Soup Nazi, The Chinese Restaurant, The Pez Dispenser, The Limo, The Bubble Boy, The Contest, The Puffy Shirt, The Hamptons, -"that's the best, Jerry, that's the best from the masters of their domains", and there are so many more! And how many quotes from the show have become the part of everyday conversations, "yada yada yada"," they are real and spectacular", "Jerry, just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it." "Hello, Jerry. Hello, Newman".Thanks for the wonderful memories.

I started really watching episodes of this because they come on in re-runs on nearly every channel in the USA at night, or used to. It was never something that I would have been excited about on a weekly basis. It is one of those shows you leave on in the background while making food, and get a couple of chuckles from. Characters like George or Kramer really carried the whole thing for me, or even Elaine's boss. Jerry, as a main character or comedian, is very lame. Elaine was OK, but reminded me of so many other shallow women in real life. Many people don't get the NY city style antics that go on, because we don't live in that setting. Larry David makes some funny stuff, but is it really all they say it is? Ummm...I'm not really sold. Curb your enthusiasm and Seinfeld are somewhat funny, but I think their ratings as the greatest shows ever are really absurd. I've seen way funnier shows with better casts and ideas, done much better. I guess for the time, Seinfeld was a real icon, but again, it really is over-hyped. I mean, I like grapes, but I wouldn't proclaim them as the best thing to ever happen to humanity! It all really depends on who you are and who you know in Hollywood and media, to decide what kind of reception and light you are cast in. Much of the commotion is just silly nonsense in an echo chamber.

This sitcom is painfully bad. I can't understand its massive success. I've only watched the first few episodes and I don't see anything good about it. All of the main characters are repulsive - the most unwatchable of any sitcom I've ever seen. How are the viewers meant to care about, root for, side with or like any of them? They're selfish, arrogant, brash, dishonest people who talk too loudly in exaggerated NYC accents. If their repulsiveness is what's meant to be funny, then that's just one bad joke repeated over and over again - which I don't want to see or hear on my screen.There seems to be somesort of unofficial rule that you're not allowed to criticise this show or its characters. It's somehow considered 'sitcom royalty' -and praising it is perceived by many people as proof of being intelligent and classy.