Much more of a gimmick: back to the "reverse episode" of "Seinfeld"
Just before it went off the air, "Seinfeld" once again changed the rules of the game with "The Betrayal," also known as "An Episode That Goes Upside Down."
Binger, the podcast from the podium, brings the stories behind the making of the episode and wonders if it is a gimmick or a classic that has only improved over the years
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12/07/2022
Tuesday, 12 July 2022, 00:36 Updated: 00:40
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If you review the episodes of "Seinfeld", you can catalog some of them under a subset of "Gimmick episodes".
For example, the "Chinese restaurant", which as I recall takes place entirely in line for a restaurant;
The "limousine," which takes place almost entirely in vehicles, and so on.
The "betrayal" from the ninth and final season of the series also falls into this category.
His name does not hide this, but he is inspired by the play of the same name by Harold Pinter, he goes from the end to the beginning, and is conducted in reverse chronological order.
"Gimmick" sounds like a negative concept, but these episodes are considered some of Seinfeld's great classics, and the same is true of "The Betrayal."
We chose him here for one of the thirty great episodes of the series;
Jason Alexander, who played George in it, defined it as one of the highlights of the nine seasons;
And the American media has been singing hymns to him for three decades.
It is also important to clarify, for the benefit of the young readers who have only just discovered Kate Bush and only now are discovering "Seinfeld": Today, the plot move of this episode already seems trivial.
But in the late 1990s, it was more groundbreaking to play like that with the times, and to bring to prime-time television techniques from the British theater.
"Seinfeld" has proven that it is possible to have fun with the chronological sequence and succeed, and if other series go this way today, it's much to its credit.
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Jason Alexander saw in one episode one of the highlights of the series.
From "The Betrayal" (Photo: Screenshot from "Seinfeld")
Binger, the podcast from the podium, has been reviewing the best episodes of "Seinfeld" for the past year, and now it's time for "The Betrayal."
Oren Yossifovich joins his honesty advocates, and Avner Shavit actually claims that with all due respect to his innovation, this is a sassy, unhappy, racist and offensive episode.
In addition to this subjective discussion, the two also bring dry facts: the story behind the making of the episode, and the way in which his writing melts between the first and last seasons of "Seinfeld";
And a variety of trivia details related to it, including of course the individual who has starred in recent years on social media in Israel - one of the guest appearances here belongs to the young Leshon Taub, years before he starred in "Homeland" and "Tehran".
To listen to all the podcast episodes on Spotify.
To listen to all the episodes of the podcast on Apple.
To listen to all the podcast episodes on the Binger website.
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