Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

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Vincent, the "Louvre detective," and the real difference between the sexes

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Dec 03, 2025
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“The Comeback” (1997) is one of the absurdist later episodes I’ve come to prefer. The one where George flies to Ohio to tell a former colleague, “the jerk store called and they’re running out of you.” But it has a side plot so distinctly of that later era, because Elaine is at this point no less ridiculous than the men. She’s not a cool girl inexplicabl…

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