Picks and Pans Review: Comedy Series

By Terry Kelleher

UPDATED 09/23/2002 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 09/23/2002 at 01:00 AM EDT

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO)
Everybody Loves Raymond (CBS)

    

Friends (NBC)
Sex and the City (HBO)
Will & Grace (NBC)

We love the hilariously ornery attitude of Curb Your Enthusiasm but...well, maybe next year. Everybody Loves Raymond still hasn't received the top Emmy despite six seasons of well-crafted, character-based comedy. Honorable mention to Friends for getting a second wind in its eighth season.