Curb Your Enthusiasm wrapped its ninth season with Larry in a real pickle, a conundrum that HBO wants to see resolved sooner than later. Deadline reports that the premium cabler has renewed Larry David’s cringe comedy for a 10th season.
“I do not like this / I cannot like this/ I do not like this… man!”
“People will watch anything with ‘Chicago’ in the title.”
Where Larry’s lack of fucks about most niceties has been harnessed for the benefit of his friends in the past, it’s his persnicketiness that becomes his saving grace in “Never Wait For Seconds!” By coming to a stranger’s defense—over brunch, no less—he sets his own redemption into motion, and also brings the fatwa…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, November 19. All times are Eastern.
Last week, Danette wrote that “for Curb to work, Larry has always had to be a dick, but not the biggest dick.” Never has this truth been more clear than in tonight’s episode, which found some of its best moments in Larry’s tussles with unreasonably mean people and its worst in ones where his rudeness seems rooted in a…
“You’re saying your penis is like the Titanic?”
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, November 5. All times are Eastern.
If one were trying to pinpoint the musical preferences of Larry David, one might assume it would be nothing more than a deafening chorus of groans. But fans of the show knows he has a soft spot for Wagner—one that got him into quite a bit of trouble in one memorable season-two episode—as well as numerous other…
Might this be the biggest budget ever given to an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm? The show is notoriously low budget, with most episodes unfolding in houses, apartments, lobbies, or any number of evergreen spaces. It was something of a surprise, then, to see the episode climax with a Revolutionary War reenactment,…
“Running With The Bulls” continues a couple of Curb traditions, including Larry’s knack for upending a funeral and the related custom of finding a way to ruin any memorial service for a member of the Funkhouser family. The episode also introduces the latest in a line of Larry’s therapists, played by Bryan “Dr.…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, October 22. All times are Eastern. What’s that behind you?
Here is the tragedy of Ted Cruz’s permanently embryonic comedy career in a single, easily sound-bite-able moment: Even when he unleashes a hypothetically effective zinger—as he did at tonight’s tax debate against Bernie Sanders, referencing the Vermont senator’s Larry David connection by telling him to “Curb your…
“You two have no compassion, no caring for another human.”
“It’s an illness, for sure.”
HBO had a little fun with the promos for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, framing Larry David as the hero we’ve been waiting for in the age of Trump. That wasn’t really apt for a couple of reasons—even though he’s railed against bureaucracy and meaningless social conventions in the past, “Larry David” is hardly…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, October 8. All times are Eastern. I don’t feel tardy.
Here’s something you probably never noticed as Larry David was pissing off strangers, disrespecting the dead, and waxing rhapsodic about baldness: his fashion. Well, that’s probably because it doesn’t insist upon itself so much as exude a “‘what you see is what you get’ confidence,” so you’d be forgiven for not…
Lately, it feels like it’s less a question of whether a beloved or well-received show will find its way back to TV in some form than when, especially now that the network-cable binary no longer exists. Now you can take a show originally conceived for broadcast and move it to a platform that has led the charge in cord…
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, October 1. All times are Eastern. “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”—William Faulkner
Most Curb Your Enthusiasm viewers know Larry David wasn’t playing a character on his hit HBO series all those years—he’s that prickly in real life, and he doesn’t smooth over any rough edges for fans or the press. But the perky morning crew over at The View probably hoped that David had mellowed somewhat with time or…
