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...what they at first seem to be. Mel's social worker is terminally randy; his real mother and father are major drug traffickers; a pair of stern federal agents are revealed to be gently gay. Russell observes these and other folkways with an understated objectivity that renders his comic subversions all the more deadly...
...Seinfeld (NBC) The granddaddy of modern urban sitcoms is still hipper, still wittier than its offspring. Now in its eighth season, the show has maintained its brilliant comic rhythms and dark undertones, and this season boasts some of the most original episodes ever. Kramer's stash of Japanese businessmen--need we say more...
...Stacey (Fox) Thankfully, this smart sitcom was not the victim of its network's scratch-happy spirit. Now in its second season, the show about mismatched lovebirds in the making has given us a chance to feast on the prodigious comic gifts of Thomas Haden Church, who plays Ned, a voluble adman. If there is a more engagingly comtemptuous character on TV, we haven't come upon...
...since The Satanic Verses exuberantly details the protagonist's absurd fall from the grace of a wealthy Indian childhood into the hands of a madman who plans to kill him once the story ends--an interesting motif for this particular author. But the hero survives, and Rushdie's bountiful comic narrative triumphs...
...scientists provide plenty of comic relief. In addition to Anna and Kriebel, the group includes Emil Machal (Nathan Edwards '97) a surveyor who counts the stripes on Huml's wall and uses a number of strange contraptions to perform his duty. The project manager is Mr. Beck (Ian Simmons '98), who does little else but nervously march across the stage and exclaim "tomorrow I'm going fishing and that's that!" These non-sequiturs provide a nervous, inexplicable humor, but they seem to suggest more serious issues which elude this production...