Word: mayron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Spacek and Melanie Mayron...
...quartet of angst-ridden New Yorkers, is finally going off the air after 10 acclaimed seasons. For the gala final episode, Julia Louis- Dreyfus makes a return appearance as Elaine (the movie career didn't work out) and meets her successor in the cast, Melanie Mayron. In a typically Seinfeldian life-imitates-art riff, George (Jason Alexander), now head of network programming, tells Jerry his sitcom is being canceled. Kramer (Michael Richards), elected to Congress in the eighth season, finds himself involved in a sex scandal. Meanwhile, Jerry wonders just what's the deal with those little air bubbles...
Later episodes waver between heavy-handed (Stephen Lang hamming it up as an embittered homeless man) and limply appealing (Melanie Mayron having relationship troubles). Like all anthology shows, Tribeca will have its ups and downs. But it also offers the pleasures of unpredictability: the sight of thinking, autonomous human beings facing real-world problems with no week-to- week narrative obligations. Don't call that quality; call it excitement...