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Larry David. John Johnson/HBO “I’ve got to sit in the middle with shitty snacks for five hours?” Larry David, in character, hectors at the Wright brothers in the trailer for his new HBO Max series. “Are you crazy?” One of the Wrights (Jon Hamm) retorts, “This is the airplane experience.” And that short vignette sets up Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness, the eternal malcontent’s grouchy deep dive into America’s history, or as the trailer says, “an almost history of America.” The seven-episode series will kick off on June 26.
The two-minute trailer includes a recreation of the famous sailor-kissing-a-nurse photo from V-J Day, a woman insulting David’s butter churning, some trench warfare repartee about the looks of a soldier’s love back at home, the Boston Tea Party, and jokes about child labor. In every clip, David finds something to grouse about hilariously.
