Season 2 is where Seinfeld truly starts. Much like Season 3 of The Simpsons.
Now I understand how season 1 of Seinfeld couldn't have been IT. But season 2 starts great, smart writing, superb acting and a script really tight. I wonder what did make audiences nowadays not get the jokes. Even the side plot, with Elaine and this guy she knows is amazingly told.
"You are a cashier." was bad.
How could he say? It is not funny.
Other things were ok.
6 episodes in, still 0 laughs
Shout by SLionsCricketBlockedParent2018-01-11T08:25:41Z
For some reason, I remembered most of the second season of Seinfeld also struggled the first time around. Here, I could not believe how engaged I was with this second season premiere. They finally get the character of George Costanza, IMO the show's single best character, absolutely right and even Kramer is captured quite nicely. Love that his entire thing this episode is about cantaloupe and his obsession for fruit. Also love that we are introduced in passing to Kramer's fruit guy, Joe, who will make an appearance in the season five premiere.
The stories really worked for me in that they felt like Seinfeld narratives. Love Elaine's story about a relationship with a guy she met through a friend slowly deteriorating and the "nothingness" about it. I thought this was very solid and I look forward to seeing whether my disposition towards the second season will change this time around.