What’s the Deal with Reunions?
After what was said to be its series finale in 2007, television’s best comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, has been confirmed for another season on HBO. But this is no regular comeback. It’s also a reunion, with the whole cast of Seinfeld!
Seriously. Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer have all signed on for a multiple-episode story-arc in Curb’s Season 7. And if you ask me, this is the best kind of reunion you could hope for. It’s not going to be a forced and gimmicky movie, or an inevitably disapointing comeback special; this is an anti-reunion reunion, with all the familiar faces but without any of the bloated expectations that would go with that old NY apartment and all of those boxes of cereal lined up in the kitchen. Each actor will play a Curb-version of themself. And who knows, maybe the story will go that they’re trying to put together a Seinfeld movie for their comeback. It’ll be a weird, funny, meta-narrative-eque reunion-infused sitcom event. I’m pretty sure a first of its kind.
It won’t be the first time that Jason Alexander or Julia Louis-Dreyfus have been featured in the show but it’s bound to be the best. And barring his meltdown on stage a couple years ago, this will be the first that anybody’s seen of Michael Richards in years–which may be awkward the first five minutes he’s on screen, but will surely pass once he breaks our straight faces for the first time and we remember why we liked him so much in the first place.
No official date has been announced for its premier, but they were originally shooting for this year. So I’ll keep my ears open. If they’re on time, we can probably expect an airing this summer. And it’ll be good…prettyyy, prettyyy, prettyyyy pretty good.
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