Seinfeld: The Return delves into the horrifying mystery of "Who killed Jerry Seinfeld"
Beneath the slap and pop bass lines and brightly colored ‘90s clothes of Seinfeld’s exterior, there exists an infinite void of existential dread. The show itself—famously “about nothing”—explored the meaninglessness of our daily lives on its own terms, but that wasn’t enough for other people on the internet who want to see Seinfeld reimagined as aesthetically terrifying, too. In the past year alone, we’ve seen fan fiction about the gang dealing with the coronovirus pandemic and video games that turn the show’s apartment into a house of surreal horrors. Now we have Seinfeld: The Return, a Twin Peaks-inspired vision of what it might look like to revisit the cast 25 years after the sitcom ended with Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer locked into a prison cell.
Dominick Nero, a video editor who’s explored both Twin Peaks and Jerry Seinfeld’s dark heart before, first played with the concept back in 2017, but he’s returned to it with three episodes that elaborate on the idea.