“Seinfeld” was really like no other comedy on television. He refused to respect sitcom conventions with sympathetic main characters, life lessons and happy ends. Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), George (Jason Alexander) and Kramer (Michael Richards) were all, in one form or another, socio-speaking horizons that seemed to cause only a wave of problems wherever they were known. But that was part of all the appeal. Programs like “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” would follow his footsteps because there is an innate curiosity and a sick satisfaction to discover shame of humanity inside a lot of unlikely characters. NBC viewers could not have enough “Seinfeld”, as the popularity and consideration of popularity and the awards of the series increased each past season. It was at the top of the world. However, the show reached a turning point at the end of its seventh season for two reasons because of its division final.
“The Invitations” closed the racing scenario of the season in a fairly nasty way, even according to “Seinfeld” standards. Susan Ross (Heidi Swedberg), who was presented for the first time in season four while the NBC executive became a romantic interest, returned to the show in his seventh season, where George offered him. The season saw George start to achieve the extent of what he did and regret his decision, seek a way to withdraw his engagement. The character essentially obtains the release of a life when Susan falls shockingly in the final after having licked the glue of hundreds of envelopes containing their wedding invitations. “Seinfeld” had already killed many side characters, and even pumped Jerry full of lead in a scandalously violent dream sequence in season 2, but it was an unexplored territory.
The decision to kill Susan in such a cruel unhappiness has proven controversial among occasional viewers, especially since none of the characters seemed all that broke, not to mention George. Such a dark spell is logical in the context of these characters with little respect for anarchy that they unleash, intentional or other. If anything, the final of the just as divisor series gives the four nuclei the comedian they have always come to them. Even Swedberg seemed perfectly well with the unworthy outing of the character. In the meantime, however, “Seinfeld” was renewed for its eighth season and viewers were interested in seeing how they would follow such an end.
It turns out that the creative team behind the show was quite nervous, not because of how they would react to what they did to Susan, but because he was going to go ahead without the involvement of the co-creator of the Larry David series.
The Foundation was the first episode without the involvement of Larry David
“Seinfeld” was initially presented to NBC by David and Jerry as a show on the way an actor obtains his equipment. It is an original idea of these two comic forces, which put their ideas and resources to refine what was going to become one of the biggest sitcoms of all time. However, after “invitations” were broadcast, David finally made the decision to leave the show after years saying that he would. By entering the first of the eight season (“The Foundation”), the casting and the crew were just as uncertain to know if the continuation of the show was the right decision or not.
In a DVD featurette for “The Foundation”, the writer Alec Berg recalled how the absence of David looked like a joke, until she struck them that they were indeed alone:
“In fact, we used to joke, like we were four or five episodes in this eighth season and we are like” I think Larry returns this week. I had a good feeling. He’s going to come and everything will come back like that. “”
“We have all turned to Jerry now,” said photography director Wayne Kennan in the same featurette. The leases of the series like Julia Louis-Dreyfus were initially worried about the quality return that the series would receive, but it was Michael Richards who found himself on board the continuous existence of the series because he believed in the initiative of Jerry as an artist:
“I knew that Jerry would not continue this program if he did not think that we could get there … because Jerry is a perfectionist and that there was no way that we continued. I called Jerry, we talked, and he thought we could get there. I said” okay, let’s go. “
Jerry may have had his own reservations on the seizure of a television phenomenon by himself, but he considered that his many years of work with David had prepared him to manage such a change of guard (via DVD Featurette):
“As much as I should thank for everything he has done, he too, leaving, gave me this opportunity to prove to myself that I could Do it for myself. But I don’t think I could have done it earlier than that. It took me all this time. It took me these seven years to develop confidence because I was not a writer before this show. I was not a producer, I did not know how to make all these decisions, but at that time, I was and I knew how. “”
Larry David’s departure was the result of wanting to do something else
Whenever a creative force that was with a very beginning show leaves, whether it is a crucial member of the actor or a showrunner, there is this feeling of “Glory days are behind us”. Sometimes it works and other times, it accentuates the missing parts more that has run the whole operation. “Seinfeld”, fortunately, was able to resist the loss of one of its founders and continue for two more seasons with many major episodes. So why did David leave the show? Everything is withstanding exhaustion.
“Seinfeld” was perhaps at its creative summit, but David finished. There was no real animosity between him and Jerry, as long as an achievement was time to go to greener pastures. I think anyone who considers himself as artists knows this exact feeling of working on something for so long that it becomes numb, especially when you have a lot of other ideas that await to be explored. In a way, the decision worked for the two members of the “Seinfeld” because it allowed Jerry to play a more fulfilling role, if not difficult, while David was able to start his own projects.
Among the body of the work, David accumulated after the breastfeld, his greatest success was undoubtedly that of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, a series of half-hour comedy which included a fictitious version of the comedy writer based in Los Angeles against societal standards. The joke was still on David. Even more impressive than analizing “Seinfeld” for seven seasons was to lead “Curb Your Enthusiasm” on HBO for 12 seasons and to receive a multitude of Emmy appointments in the process, with two victories in the process. Lots of “Seinfeld” casting even took time for the appearances of Camée.
Each episode of “Seinfeld” is currently broadcast on Netflix.
