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...will have an uphill battle against bruising competition. Even after the network moved it to a safer slot on Monday night, the series never fully recovered from its disastrous initial face-off against the popular medics of ER. Now it has been scheduled against NBC's stratospherically rated Seinfeld and Suddenly Susan. Still, that ABC had enough faith in Murder One to renew it is one of the happier notes in this very dismal TV season...
This is the progress of romance in the past 40 years: one starts out loving an idealized image of a mate (see Vertigo) and winds up loving oneself (see Seinfeld...
...behind television sitcoms contemporaneous with Vertigo was that the husbands and wives--in such shows as Father Knows Best and The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet--were perfect for each other. They had their ideal mates; that's why they were married. The assumption behind current shows like Friends and Seinfeld is that perfection is a sometime thing and that anybody may be meant for anybody else. That's why the characters are not married. One size fits...
...final episodes of last year's Seinfeld revealed the sad consequences of this theory. Jerry Seinfeld, who is to antiromance what Don Quixote was to the real thing, is suddenly converted to the prospect of a permanent attachment when he meets Janeane Garofalo, who is, in every way but the anatomical, Seinfeld himself. She talks the way he does, thinks the way he does, reacts in exactly the same ways. Seinfeld immediately falls shallowly in love with himself, and is prepared to marry himself when the inevitable question arises: Who would marry someone like...
...Vertigo, a man makes too much of a woman, and he loses. In Seinfeld, a man makes too much of himself, and he loses. This is the progress of romance in the past 40 years...