This show was never that great
It was funny, but not great. Something you watch when you're bored. People give Larry David too much credit because of Seinfeld.
shareI think the thing people forgot to mention is that sometimes the hilarity comes from ABSURD SITUATIONS.
Many times I found myself laughing without even realizing it, or thinking something was funny at all, I just couldn't help laughing at the absurdity or the profound stupidity of some comment, and I had to afterwards admit.. that was funny.
This show can be funny in surprising ways, I thought the later seasons would just disappoint me, but I am actually surprised as to how much I wasn't disappointed, but instead, found myself laughing.
Maybe I should give it another chance and watch it from the beginning, perhaps it's not as 'irrelevant show about nothing' as I earlier thought. Perhaps I have matured and can have a different perspective on it.
It's DEFINITELY not an easy show to like, respect or find funny at first, it's not immediately accessible, you have to kind of watch it a lot to 'tune yourself' into what the show tries and wants to be. Then it can be kinda funny and you can forgive a lot of the things that would make you turn it off previously (and I don't mean any SJW crap or social commentary, I simply mean it being 'not funny' or 'people just screaming too much', and Susan being an absolute demonic monster-b1tch)..
It's not as good as Seinfeld - can anything ever be? But it's a passable entertainment, that can sometimes surprise you by actually being funny. The episodes ARE crafted well and structured expertly, things are built up and then the joke is delivered. It's not some kind of random crap like Family Guy or such with all those flashbacks.
I mean, you gotta appreciate the effort to craft a whole story structure into each episode, and even have story arcs.
The best moments for me, are when the show DARES do something other shows usually don't. It, for example, showed me something I have NEVER seen before; a WOMAN defending a MAN!
Men are always expected to protect women so it was AMAZING to see this FINALLY happen!
The way the Black woman (and I don't mean her skin color, I mean her surname!) ABSOLUTELY TRASHED attacking Susan, was enough to make me want to live in this world a little bit longer. It was sublime, it was surprising, it was hilarious, and it was balm to the wounds to see a woman defending her man so furiously!
Have you EVER seen that anywhere else? I want to see more of this 'genders reversed' stuff just so people can truly realize that genders DO exist and there aren't billion of them, and they should absolutely be able to define what a 'woman' is.
The thing is 'woman' has become so deeply entrenched as some people's identity, any definition can be deemed as insulting. However, the simples, easiest definition in my opinion (besides 'opposite of 'man'') is:
A soul living in a female bipedal physical body.
That's it. You can't be a woman without a physical female body - once you leave such body permanently, you are not a woman anymore, you are not a man, either, you're just a human being, or just 'energy', if you will. Gender ceases to exist once the body ceases to exist.
'Woman' is technically not a gender, though, it's more of a 'philosophy' about someone that lives in a female body, 'female' would be a gender, or sex. I don't know why these two are separated, though, but that's the way it goes.
In animal world, there are no 'women'. No one calls an animal a 'woman', do they? But they call them 'females'. Ok, there was a crazy female dog calling her dog a 'doberwoman', but that kind of cringe is better left unremembered, isn't it?