OK, here's one to chew over. The finale is about the atrocious behavior of which Americans are capable the minute there is PUBLICITY involved. A lot of recent events came back, starting with John Hinckley's obsession with Jodie Foster. And the OJ trial which should always hang there as a psychotic episode in American culture (right up there with McCarthy's committee hearings).
Well, I recall now the city prosecutor saying "It will be a media circus" which was the point at which the whole bunch of them set out to GET the NY4. And they were willing to stoop to anything to do it. We want to somehow apologize for the incidents brought up, but why? Is the "society" that is prosecuting them "without sin" so it can cast the first stone? No. But anytime a society is full of hypocritical self-righteousness, heaven help the persons on the receiving end. I mean, look at what Ken Starr is stooping to nowadays, while in the pay of the Republican Party as a consultant. And look how the panel of judges which is responsible for him is looking the other way.
Anyway, we've seen how public lives get consumed, and some of those live are BARELY public at all. In some cases it seems like they are DRAGGED into public to be beaten senseless for the amusement of the crowds.
So maybe Larry David is looking at this and trying to make other people see it. Get a minute's worth of "fame", whether it was your idea or the decision of the media to focus on you, and you, too, can look forward to this kind of rape. It was a mere accident that the Seinfelds ended up on the streets of Latham. Had they not taken the advice of the pilot (not probably a good source of advice), they never would have been caught in this frenzy. Or if they'd known a lawyer who wasnt an F. Lee Bailey publicity hound, the prosecutor probably would have given them a rap on the wrist and said "Sin no more" (and they would have said "Well, if I do, you can count on it being on the street of some OTHER town!") Till this trial, these characters weren't public figures. By bad luck, they became them, and in the process, they attracted hordes of people wanting someone to crucify.
In that sense, maybe its a comment on what we call a "public figure" nowadays and what fate awaits them.