From Pop-Tarts to Jackie O’s and beyond [Media Notes 119 E]
One of the problems I’ve been having with Unfrosted is that it’s unfocused. As I mentioned in my original review, Seinfeld’s a miniaturist. His core artistic discipline is stand-up comedy, a discipline based on two-, three-, and five-, maybe six-minute bits. The Seinfeld Show was a half-hour sitcom, which means it had roughly twenty-two-and-a-half-minutes of show interrupted by commercial announcements. Those didn’t involve much of a plot. Similarly, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee consisted of a conversation between Seinfeld and some comedian, which each show being ten to twenty minutes long – edited, I believe, ...