Reply #145: I posted this on the other thread about Seinfeld.... [View All]

[suston96]

... Seinfeld was a show, or is a show, about four New York City neurotics, reflecting the neurosis of one of the shows creators, Larry David. Go watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" written by and starring Larry David, and you will get the idea.

The characters in Seinfeld ridicule themselves. So people are complaining that there were not enough black characters joining in with the group neurotics ridiculing themselves? There were or there are many black shows where that self-ridicule theme prevails or is interwoven, but it is in the black friendly situation that would attract minimum complaints from the racism reactors.

Seinfeld is not a show to tokenize races, colors, and creeds. Instead, Seinfeld treated those societal implications cleverly and with restraint so that the basic neuroses of the main chracters remained the running themes.

As I posted on the other thread, "The Wire" {HBO) is about young, black drug addicts and black gangstahs, with token white cops and white politicians. Try that show and look for the situational neurosis that pervades.

Sometimes neurosis is funny. And sometimes it is tragic. And sometimes it involves one race more than another.