What is Seinfeld about?
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
Seinfeld (1989)
Four friends navigate 90s New York City, finding witty and absurd humor in the satirical everyday.
Dry wit. A comfort watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Netflix.
Seinfeld parents guide
Heads up on some innuendo or implied sex. That is past what the TV-PG on the box suggests. Beyond that, mild language and nothing scary.
Our estimate: fine from about 10. Rated TV-PG.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byJerry Seinfeld, Larry David
StarringJerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
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