Larry Sanders

He said, she said: talking points on season 2 of the hit HBO show

The Larry Sanders complete set drops tomorrow, and I noticed that this Los Angeles Times article has a quote from Judd Apatow that sort of confirms what I wrote in last week’s post, about the show being shot very fast:

The most important TV-on-DVD release for the rest of the year is Shout! Factory’s The Larry Sanders Show: The Complete Series. The show itself is a classic. There are so many ’90s sitcoms that hold up well today, it almost seems to devalue them; one gets tired of hearing that this or that half-hour comedy was great. But nevertheless, it seems like the ’90s was an era when there was a confidence and a professionalism in the making of half-hour comedy that eludes even some of the good shows today (the reverse applies with drama; some of the dramas of the era — not Homicide, though — seem a little ramshackle now). Larry Sanders was the HBO alternative to mainstream network comedy, but it partakes of the same confidence, the sense that you can follow the writers and performers because they know what they’re doing.