The new season of Larry David’s show (he’s the co-creator of Seinfeld) is one of the best he’s done yet, in my opinion.  One thing that we both noticed though is that the hilarious comedian and idea man has lost tons of weight.  Come to find out, it might be because, just as his character experiences, the poor guy experienced going through a divorce in real life lately with his wife of several years!

Oh, where to begin with the episodes.  Of course, they’re all kind of Seinfeld-ian in nature, where some little incident always makes it’s way back around to bite him in the butt.  Among some of those incidents is him taking a bouquet of flowers from a friend’s mothers grave when he can’t go find any flowers for his wife.  Of course, his friend finds out he did it and he’s in hot water. 

Then there’s the one where he donates money to a charity and puts his name on a plaque, only to be outdone by his frienemy Ted Danson who donates “anonymously” and gets more credit than if he would have put his name on a plaque for being modest.  Larry does the same thing, only to have that faux-pas come full circle when he’s being chased by hoodlums on the street and the security guy won’t let him in because his name doesn’t appear on the plaque.

The infamous divorce episode is when Larry’s wife Cheryl, played by the great actress Cheryl Heines, is on a plane that she is convinced is going to go down, and calls Larry on one of the plane’s phones, only to have him dismiss her and have her call him back because the TiVo repair guy is there and he can’t hear him and her at the same time.  Cheryl tells Larry she’s leaving when she comes home, and she actually goes on a date with the guy that was sitting next to her on the plane just a couple days later. 

A guy with hair, and that really bothers Larry since he’s bald.  Oh, then there’s the bald episode that’s all about being discriminated against because you’re bald.  Anyways, to sum it up, there is some great writing in this season, and it looks as if Mr. David did a lot of the writing himself judging by the credits. The show’s not for everyone, and I do have some friends that just don’t really think it’s funny, but if you get into it, it’s even better than Seinfeld.  It’s really just a more vulgar, dirty version of Seinfeld!