No way to exit. (critique of the last 'Seinfeld' episode)

Commonweal | June 5, 1998| | Copyright

Seinfeld as Sartre

So, what did you think about the last episode of "Seinfeld?" I asked my class on the morning of May 15.

"It sucked," said a girl in the front row, and two hundred heads nodded in agreement. Later that day, when my wife picked me up, she told me both her classes reached the same consensus. And when we got home and checked out the newspaper, we found that the Associated Press guy panned it too: unfocused, rambling, not funny. So I have to bet that if you watched it you agree with our students and the A.P.

And here I am, your trusted media wallah, master of my ...

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