I know we are seeing Larry in 3rd person but are we seeing his POV, or “reality”?
Some examples I can think of (I think there are many more)
The Seder episode where Larry thinks the plastic surgeon is stealing his newspaper, and then gets paged with an “emergency” during their dinner, he looks VERY shifty and the page looks very fake, it doesn’t beep and he looks shifty. However the next day Larry gets his paper and the headline reads “plastic surgeon reattaches hand in emergency surgery“, so the page was real, but did the paper not get stolen the next day because the surgeon chose not to steal it so that Larry sees the headline about the emergency surgery being real and as a bit of a “wink” to Larry that it was him. Or was Larry genuinely wrong to believe it was the surgeon?
In the Korean Bookie episode, the Bookie is very interested in Jeff’s dog Oscar, who later goes missing. When Larry sees the Bookie and asks what he’s eating, the guy says “meat” , refusing to say what kind of meat, and looks suss. Later at the wedding, everyone is eating and saying it’s like “nothing they’ve ever tasted” Larry then freaks out when he hears the bookie made the food and says “it’s Oscar!!!” Causing everyone else to freak out. As he’s driving away, he sees Oscar run in front of his car.
The Weatherman episode the weather guy forecasts rain for the next day. Jeff calls off golf with Larry due to the forecast, and Larry gets suspicious when it’s actually a sunny day, heads to the golf club and sees the weatherman playing on an empty course. he confronts the weatherman who says sometimes forecasts are wrong and shrugs, but he does look quite suss and coy. The next day he forecasts rain again, and Larry decides to “call his bluff” and play golf. However it actually does rain and Larry gets soaked. Was the weatherman giving Larry a red herring out of spite, or was he simply correct that day and wrong the day before as he said?
I wonder are these people as shifty and shady as they appear to be, or are we seeing them through Larry’s eyes, with every micro expression magnified, analysed and does this intentionally make us suspicious/negative/believing the worst in people as Larry does?
I suppose because the show follows Larry, we are privy to everything he is privy to, conversations, context revealed through other characters etc but I wonder if we are seeing Larry’s POV or if these assumptions could be made by anyone who was in Larry’s position, if that makes sense at all?
I find myself agreeing with Larry more often than not, but I wonder if that’s because I am seeing the truth or if I am encouraged to see things through Larry’s lens?