In his eight seasons, Curb Your Enthusiasm continues as a public therapy session for Larry David. Play a hyper-stylized version of himself, David has spent 80 episodes deconstruct his past as co-creator of Seinfeld, later marriage, and his own narcissism and unpleasant.
Fortunately, David is a subject of fun on the couch. But the dirty little secret about Curb Your Enthusiasm is that it may be the most traditional sitcom currently in the air. Curb the kernel has more in common with the golden age of sitcoms like I Love Lucy, and honeymooners the office and, yes, Seinfeld.
Despite being original and sometimes shocking in its subject matter or language, Curb stubbornly back into its structure. Most half-hour comedy set function now throws, giving a more fluid and unpredictable show (which reached a kind of culmination in four stories intersect Seinfeld, one for each of the main characters). Curb Larry David character sets, front and center in almost every scene.
In this reminds several sets of Lucille Ball, which was the catalyst for comedy. Most episodes usually have ordinary situations to ridiculous extremes due to defects in Lucy uniqueness. Similarly, nothing happens in the Curb Your Enthusiasm is not the direct result of David's failure to refrain from saying exactly what he has in mind. But based on a sample of episodes of the new season, the humor of his words is in the process of stagnant growth. David against someone who wants to do something embarrassing is more interesting, but it happens again and again. The viewer knows that going to end badly, because it always does. How many times can we see David fragile than an excuse to get out of an obligation of charity to get caught in a blatant lie? Repetition reveals a low idle, as shown here on a formula that could be described as Seinfeld Lite.
However, Curb not completely run out of gas. It is still the biggest show on television when he turns his attention to questions that no one else dared touch. The first episode gleefully skewers the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by giving up to avoid political correctness and roughly prioritize good food and sex, even if it means accepting the bitter anti-Semitism. In another series of inspired bits, testing, and David Leon (JB smoove) the theory that whites do not trust that African-American men who wear glasses.
Curb Your Enthusiasm peaked creatively in the sixth season. David's wife, Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), to believe in African-American family who lost everything in a hurricane. This arch structure combined with an honest portrayal of the dissolution of the marriage of David because of his own character flaws. It was fun and even poignant at once, the last thing on a show "for nothing." As therapy David, this season could be considered a breakthrough, and the series could have been better to finish with the last episode of this season, it felt like an episode of the series.
The new season follows some of the past, which brought together the cast and crew of Seinfeld in an inspired bow that is both honored and addressed the legacy of the previous show of David. Now much is made about David's return to New York City. If he had not already had the catharsis full season with Seinfeld crew, it could have been more of an event. Instead, his obnoxious behavior does not seem so out of place in the streets of Manhattan as it does in restaurants in Los Angeles.
Of course, David is associated with New York because of Seinfeld, but this plot does not turn the emotional impact of the prodigal son comes home. Again, Curb Your Enthusiasm is not the audience, our feelings or what we might see. This is David, the patient. The show has always been about his selfishness. Maybe the house is the last step in therapy.
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