It’s not TV: Enthusiasm and Death
So here’s a quick couple of things.
Curb Your Enthusiasm: basically the cat’s pajamas, right? More or less the bee’s knees. But finding news on the teased-at Seinfeld cast-included seventh season has been ridiculous. One day we heard that not only was Larry David’s kinda, sorta-autobiographical sitcom not over forever like he said it would be, but its reunion tour would include Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer for a multiple-episode arc (“What’s the Deal with Reunions?”). Pretty great. But getting a date to mark on the calendar for it, a month or year or general ballpark–forget about it. Nothing.
Before the Sunday lineup this week, though, before True Blood and Hung and Entourage, we finally got some confirmation. There were teaser’s earlier, things with just Larry’s forehead and the tip of his glasses poking out from the bottom of the screen and a “He’s baaack” text bubble. But this one was an actual clip, Larry explaining that, despite the robberies in the area, he won’t be joining his neighborhood’s watch simply because, well, he prefers thieves to neighbors. Thieves aren’t imposing, he says. They don’t steal your time.
Oh yeah, I’ve missed this. Curb will be back, Seinfeld cast and all, in September.
Not only that. There’s another comedy coming out on HBO in September and it’s called Bored to Death. It’s starring Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore, Marie Antoinette), Zach Galifinakis (The Hangover), Kristen Wigg (Knocked Up, SNL) and Ted Danson. Check out the promo at the foot.
“I have been reading so many of these detective novels,” Schwartzman’s character says, “that I know what to do!” That line says it all. That and the awesome cast this show’s got behind it.
Maybe it’s because I’m a little too empathetic to the story right now, that I “get” the plight just a little too much, but this one’s speaking to me. It’s about a writer (Schwartzman), a struggling writer with a lot of free time on his hands. And he loves detective stories, so much, in fact, that he decides to take up unlicensed detective work as a hobby–maybe to act out the part of a hero in one of his novels, or maybe just to get out of the house, away from his desk and into the real world, where real things happen and he might feel useful and actually affect people. I mean…um, I don’t know. I’m just guessing.
Bored to Death will be right along Curb in September. It should be a good Autumn.
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