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The Kominsky Methodadvertises its distance from Lorres oeuvre early in the first episode.
Those little pischers onThe Big Bang Theory, theyre making a million bucks a week!
Sandy, its pabulum; its crap.
Youre a world-famous acting coach.
Whats it gonna look like, you doing a online grid sitcom?
So I didnt get the part, Sandy says.
No, Norman answers.
Young people now dont appreciate the good things (art, culture).
They make up words and products (Skype).
They have shallow, silly problems (identity politics, alcoholism more on this in a moment).
They need too much praise.
What theyre fighting against isnt death or even bodily failure, although they face agreatdeal of both.
What theyre mostly railing against is an aggrieved sense that the world is leaving them behind.
For Norman, the world is leaving him behind because his wife of many decades has recently died.
He doesnt appear incapacitated from Sandys perspective.
For Sandy, things are murkier.
Most of his young students are idiots.
The problem withThe Kominsky Methodis the same problem Sandy and Norman have with the world.
Theyre great, but they are unwilling or incapable (or both!)
None of this matters because inside, were all the same.
You want to get offended, try cancerous glands in your asshole.
The show is on Sandys side here.
Theres a glorious segment with Elliott Gould that makes me long for that version of this series.
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