The old set has been reconstructed.  All of our cast is back, and now we’ve got Larry David in the mix, too.  The ten-episode season focuses on getting the gang back together for a reunion show, which each of the principal cast members (as themselves) acknowledges is a lame idea.

“They never work, it’s always sad, they’re older, it’s not right…” complains Julia Louis-Dreyfuss.

“How will it not be lame?” demands Jerry.

“Because we’ll do it in a way that won’t be lame,” explains Larry.

Absolutely right.  Larry David is of course trying to pull a fast one on everyone, organizing this reunion show (it’s all a ploy to win back his ex-wife, Cheryl), but what struck me most about his aforementioned line is how Larry realizes a moment after he says it, that it’s true.  They will do it in a way that won’t be lame.  For all of Larry’s selfishness, plotting and bitterness, he really does believe it will be a good show, and it excites him.  Damn, it’s good.

The cast will be featured the rest of the season, and it’s off to such an overwhelming start, that I can’t believe we got 7 more episodes of it!

I know not everybody watches the show, and even more people simply don’t even have HBO (which makes me VERY angry indeed), but please, find a friend who watches or can TiVo it.  Just find a way.  It’s gonna be great.  If you can’t trouble yourself, fuck off, it’s not for you.