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[Kraftwerk]

Gaf likes lists...so here is a list

Click on the link to see all of them, I will just post the Seinfeld one. Its a paragraph for each one, too much too post.

But here is the ones he writes about incase you dont want to click...

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Mad Men
Battlestar Galactica
Arrested Development
The Walking Dead
Downton Abbey
Friends
Seinfeld
The West Wing
Lost
This is England

Article

SEINFELD

An episode of Seinfeld always appears to me to be an exercise in actorly masochism. Here’s a standup’s single semi-insight-cum-joke-type-thing stretched thinner than bubblegum across 22 minutes. How long can you keep selling it? How long can you maintain the illusion that anyone would truly give a mouse-sized shit about any of the infinitesimally small social solecisms that fill this world?

It is further agony to watch Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Michael Richards keep pumping energy and credibility into the roles of George, Elaine and Kramer in order to disguise the void that is “Jerry Seinfeld” and Jerry Seinfeld – outplayed by the furniture itself – at the show’s heart. It should be prosecuted for nine years of cruelty to actors, not feted. Lucy Mangan.

Dude goes in hard. Must be fun to hang around.

 

[Ikuu]

Guardian really desperate for them clicks.

 

[Transistor]

Clicks link

Sees Arrested Development

Closes web page

 

[Strax]

Arrested Development must be on there

 

[gutshot]

I mean, everyone is entitled to their opinion. Doesn't mean their opinions are any less shitty though.

 

[Quixzlizx]

I'm not clicking.

 

[robotrock]

Agreed for Friends and Mad Men.

Seinfeld and Arrested Development are uncalled for though.

 

[br3wnor]

Seinfeld I can see a critic hating on just to be cool even though it's the best sitcom of all time, but Battlestar Galactica and Arrested Development?

Fuck this guy.

 

[Fox318]

Clarkson was right about the Guardian all along.

 

[crimzonflame]

The author is British, right?

 

[richardhawk]

Curb is better than Seinfeld by miles.

 

[DietRob]

This is a blatant 'for clicks' article.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Seinfeld? The same Seinfeld that was a refreshing take on sitcoms when it premiered in 1989? The same Seinfeld that influenced a generation of sitcoms? That's overrated? Does the Guardian know what the word overrated means?

Wait, did they say that Jerry Seinfeld is a bad actor? Holy shit this is such a terrible article.

 

[LosDaddie]

Please click on our site

 

[Brian_FETO]

I'm out

 

[HamPster PamPster]

Further proof that Frasier was the best 90s sitcom!

 

[Phantast2k]

Spot on about Arrested Development (and Community):

As much as I liked the ensemble cast and the many talented guest stars, this show was far too happy with itself to make me happy too. It always felt as if I was watching it with the writers sitting next to me, signposting every overly constructed joke, smugly looking back at me not for a laugh but for a self-satisfied smirk. I had similar problems with Community – another show that decided to tell you it was funny then explain why for what felt like an eternity.

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Curb is better than Seinfeld by miles.

Agreed.

 

[robotrock]

Curb is better than Seinfeld by miles.

True tho

 

[Fox318]

Where is the article on how kittens and puppies are worse than hitler?

 

[Kraftwerk]

I know its click-baity, but the paragraphs that are written for each one are pretty entertaining, from a salt value.

 

[Glass Rebel]

The AD description makes me think I've seen a totally different show than the author.

 

[K' Dash]

There is no sitcom better than Seinfeld, I understand the hate as I find everything else boring after that.

Jerry and Larry you ruined me, RUINED ME!

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

An article about being overrated coming out of Guardian?

The irony. It burns.

 

[TheOfficeMut]

WHEW!

As long as my three favorite shows are not on there - The Sopranos, Breaking Bad and The Wire - then I'm all good!

 

[Jonm1010]

Agreed for Friends and Mad Men.

Seinfeld and Arrested Development are uncalled for though.

Mad Men was an incredible show. Top 5 all time.

The writing and characterization is unmatched by anything else in the medium.

This list just sought some relevant "shock" names to get clicks and generate debate on social media and message boards to get more clicks. Or else the writer is a moron, in which case, fuck him.

 

[Staccat0]

"overrated" belongs on a list of words that almost immediately make me take a person's thoughts on art less seriously.

 

[Haly]

Where's Game of Thrones?

 

[Reverend Funk]

Curb is better than Seinfeld by miles.

yea but sometimes its just too difficult to watch

 

[ClivePwned]

from a criminally overrated newspaper. oh well, people have opinions that differ from mine.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

That dude misses a lot of points about what makes Seinfeld.

I would like to see a list of comedies he thinks are funny.

 

[Chie Satonaka]

I've only seen a few shows on this list, so I'll just say they're totally right about Friends.

Seinfeld is timeless, though. Not even close to overrated.

 

[tearsintherain]

List hasn't achieved maximum edginess until they add The Wire and Breaking Bad to it

 

[VistraNorrez]

Of course anything that has praise upon praise heaped upon it is overrated. How could everyone ever like the same thing?

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

He is right about Seinfeld and Arrested Development at least (those two plus BSG are the only ones on the list I've seen).


Really unfunny and boring shows.

 

[Real Hero]

Yeah that list should just be GAME OF THRONES ten times

 

[zma1013]

The Walking Dead, sure. Everything else, nah.

 

[barit]

Further proof that Frasier was the best 90s sitcom!

You have my vote, Sir

 

[flkraven]

Lol, these hindsight lists are always complete crap. Seinfeld's season finale was almost 20 years ago and it basically revolutionized the sitcom as we know it. Heck, the show still holds up today.

This is like going back to play Ocarina of Time or GTA 3 and saying the camera sucks or the graphics are crap.

 

[Bread]

Wait, did they say that Jerry Seinfeld is a bad actor? Holy shit this is such a terrible article.

they're right though

 

[jrush64]

Definitely agree with Seinfeld. So overrated. Friends is way way better but still kinda overrated.

 

[sangreal]

They're all written by different people so there is no consistency in the list. For instance the list includes mad men while the BSG writer talks about how BSG doesn't belong with great shows like mad men

 

[deli2000]

CONTRARIANISM

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Spot on about Arrested Development (and Community):



/

Agreed.

Oh, so bullshit then. That's all that had to say, "I don't like Arrested Development because of bullshit" and the author could've saved me a few seconds. There's opinions, and then there's completely click baity totally unsubstantiated bad opinions. This is the latter.

 

[Anticol]

I agree with friends (most overrated comedy alongside with frasier) and The walking dead, but seinfeld? WTH...

 

[maxcriden]

Mad Men - way downhill as it went on, for me, and consistently redundant and derivative of the Sopranos
Battlestar Galactica - one of my faves of all time
Arrested Development - the jokes get uglier and meanier on rewatches, despite my previous fandom of the show, I have to acknowledge this and it detracts significantly from it for me
The Walking Dead - not for me
Downton Abbey - way downhill after S3
Friends - excellent show that holds up well today
Seinfeld - mixed on this one
The West Wing - great then poor then great again
Lost - up and down in quality throughout
This is England - never heard of it

 

[richiek]

Definitely agree with Seinfeld being overrated.

 

[HStallion]

I don't see the Wire on there so I know this guy isn't totally full of shit. I judge people harshly if they say they didn't like the Wire.

 

[TM94]

Mad Men overrated.

Yeah right, get to fuck.

 

[Strax]

Wait, did they say that Jerry Seinfeld is a bad actor? Holy shit this is such a terrible article.

uhhh Seinfeld might be the worst actor to star in a #1 TV show. Great show but his acting is by far the worst part of it.

 

[Spyder_Monkey]

Curb is better than Seinfeld by miles.

I mean sure but without Seinfeld putting Larry David on the map Curb simply wouldn't exist. "Overrated" doesn't mean "bad show" overrated means a work of art is not worth its merit. Seinfeld is definitely worth its merit if only it was so influential on other comedy shows.

uhhh Seinfeld might be the worst actor to star in a #1 TV show. Great show but his acting is by far the worst part of it.

Simply untrue.