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The awkwardness and use of power is fascinating, as are the on screen versus backstage behavior. This comes off best in some of the final episodes where Sanders is dating Illeana Douglas (playing herself), and coaches her on how to be a good talk show guest. She freaks out afterwards: I feel like you put more effort into my performance on your show than you have our! Larry can’t deny it, but the wrap up (she’s also an insecure actress) is just as real.

There is a level of sustained brilliance throughout, but watching the series in total, toward the end of the run, the shows hit a level of situation comedy familiarity – perhaps the writing staff changed a bit – where things feel more familiar in terms of structure and pay off. But even an episode that you can tell where it’s going – like Pilots and Pens Lost – still offers so much. In it Artie loses a pen Sanders bought him, and so he scrambles for a replacement, with each detail about the pen humiliating Artie, while the writer has a hot script with the network about a Seattle Ska band, but then they bring in Dave Chappelle as the drummer.

Of course the minute Dave gets attached, the premise goes out the window. The show then sets about getting everyone back in order by the end, but the truth of Phil’s pitch (that everyone loved) mutating into a show that has nothing to do with the initial idea is one of those great moments where they nail the development process. Even if structurally you know where the show is going, they still hit some high points along the way. You can say the same for the episode Putting the ‘Gay’ Back in Litigation, where Scott Thompson’s Brian sues the show and for sexual harassment. The show ends with a sexually curious kiss, but in getting to it there’s a great dialog about sexual harassment, and a good contrast between Beverly and Brian – as Beverly thinks Brian needs god and made a choice.

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