Seinfeld is on Netflix... is this the moment Britain finally falls in love?

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. In the late 1980s, Jerry Seinfeld was a jobbing stand-up who’d gained some level of visibility through a series of well-received sets on late-night talk shows. This went out the window with Seinfeld, which abided utterly by David’s “no hugging, no learning” mantra. In early reviews, Friends was compared widely and dismissively to Seinfeld, having mimicked its “young adult friends in New York” premise while paring back Seinfeld’s absurdity and reintroducing some of the traditional “hugging and learning” that David so despised. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia has often been described as “Seinfeld on ”, pushing the ethos of unlikeable and incorrigible characters to new and hilarious extremes.