Over-The-Shoulder Podcast

Over-The-Shoulder

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Seinfeld And Setbacks, Narcissism And Nespresso, Curb And Class: An Essay About Nothing
18-02-2022
Seinfeld And Setbacks, Narcissism And Nespresso, Curb And Class: An Essay About Nothing
Seinfeld blessed us with nine years of comedy gold. It was a sardonic narcotic like no other: dovetailed plot lines birthed from some of television’s greatest and most disturbed writers; misanthropic characters intent on questioning their most trivial confines; and detached, dead-on humour that revelled in depravity. The whole show was a love letter to a caffeine-fuelled New York, a big steaming bouillon of irritation – after all, the root of all comedy is indignation. The drug of Seinfeld was quickly valued higher than cocaine, fermenting popular culture with a subversive tangent of drollery, capturing the ethos of its time. But. But, as they say, with great power comes great responsibility. And perhaps the so-famed “show about nothing” has not treated its so dexterous ensemble so tastefully. After the sitcom came to its controversial end, critics quickly pronounced the cast’s favouring fortunes as the ‘Seinfeld Curse’. We were witnessing something not necessarily unprecedented, but something never seen on such a prodigious scale; not victims of failure, but victims of global, astronomical success. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://overtheshoulder129848657.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/seinfeld-and-setbacks-narcissism-and-nespresso-curb-and-class-an-essay-about-nothing/ Want to pop me a cheeky voice message? Try here: https://anchor.fm/over-the-shoulder-podcast/message --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/over-the-shoulder/message