As I just have had time to watch the very last season of this show and had to contend with reviews saying it wasn't nearly as good as it once was. So I wanted to see for myself.
So apparently Larry is married to Cheryl when the show first starts. Everybody in the show plays themselves with a few exceptions. Richard Lewis is himself. In the next show Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are themselves. There is a departure in some cases. Cheryl is not really Larry David's wife and there are other cases such as Louis Nye not being Jeff Garlin's father.
So Larry David really is the creator of Seinfeld here, so he is a minor celebrity. He's enough of one that he has no money problems and lots of leisure time, and he's not such a celebrity that he requires private security to move him securely from place to place.
In this first episode you'll recognize the kind of absurd situations that occurred in Seinfeld - Larry's pants form a "tent" when he sits down that looks like an erection and a misunderstanding results. Larry gets put on speaker phone talking to his manager and calls his wife "Hitler" not knowing that his manager's parents are in the car with him and are offended by the reference. A nasty encounter with a woman on the aisle seat at a movie theater ends up intersecting with his friend Richard Lewis, and so on.
So far it seems like brilliant stuff. It's the kind of material Larry David couldn't get away with on Seinfeld, although he did push the envelope even on that network show.
So apparently Larry is married to Cheryl when the show first starts. Everybody in the show plays themselves with a few exceptions. Richard Lewis is himself. In the next show Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen are themselves. There is a departure in some cases. Cheryl is not really Larry David's wife and there are other cases such as Louis Nye not being Jeff Garlin's father.
So Larry David really is the creator of Seinfeld here, so he is a minor celebrity. He's enough of one that he has no money problems and lots of leisure time, and he's not such a celebrity that he requires private security to move him securely from place to place.
In this first episode you'll recognize the kind of absurd situations that occurred in Seinfeld - Larry's pants form a "tent" when he sits down that looks like an erection and a misunderstanding results. Larry gets put on speaker phone talking to his manager and calls his wife "Hitler" not knowing that his manager's parents are in the car with him and are offended by the reference. A nasty encounter with a woman on the aisle seat at a movie theater ends up intersecting with his friend Richard Lewis, and so on.
So far it seems like brilliant stuff. It's the kind of material Larry David couldn't get away with on Seinfeld, although he did push the envelope even on that network show.