Curb Your Enthusiasm - C or D?

I think the later seasons have considerably less improvisation in them as well.

Clear History is appalling. It's definitely reminiscent of latter-day Woody Allen in that it's a load of ostensibly funny people in a completely humourless movie

I did not know that was Kate Hudson either

my gf had never seen curb your enthusiasm before, so a few nights i excitedly cued up season 1, episode 1. i remembered it as being really funny (it's the tent pants episode), but man, i didn't realize how painfully terrible the acting was in the early episodes! it was a little hard to watch - i suppose they hadn't gotten their characters down yet, or the whole improvising off of an outline thing. i skipped ahead to an episode from season 4 and it was like watching a totally different show.

― reckless woo (Z S), Monday, November 18, 2013 12:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You skipped directly to Season Four, of all seasons? 2-3 are a cut above everything else IMO, there's loads of great stuff throughout but those two are majestic.

― Matt DC, Monday, November 18, 2013 2:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been a very intermittent watcher since it's been on, like just an episode or two here and there, and I finally have HBO and HBO Go so I went back to Season 1, and I do find it kind of halting and choppy. Moreover though I also feel like the episodes are so formulaic. I don't remember if they get a little less formulaic later.

larry davis

ive come to accept that no matter how great a movie, tv show , record etc might be, if I try to cajole someone into listening/watching they're going to hate it and im going to be filled with shame and embarrassment until the listening/watching is complete. Now everything i like is just mine unless i find out someone else already likes it too.

kate hudson looked exactly like kate hudson in that shitty movie, guys.

First time I got really into Curb and then started making my friends watch it, it didn't take long to realize the show is 90% unpleasant people screaming at each other.

I had watched all the episodes available at the time (6 seasons) and was blinded by how funny it is.

H, who hadn't seen much of it before, complained about the fact that it's a show about people with no real problems who complain all the time. The characters are all financially set and don't seem to have goals, cares or passions. I guess part of the comedy comes out of that though, the sort of "rich people existentialist hell" atmosphere.

kate hudson looked exactly like kate hudson in that shitty movie, guys.

I think i'd just forgotten her in a general sort of way

https://scontent-a-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1620678_10153823977605707_570595156_n.jpg

"I'm an asshole? Yeah well assholes don't date the disabled"
[points to girl in wheelchair]
"Check that out"

season 1, episode 1 isn't very representative though - wasn't it meant as one-off special?
Anyway what's the season / ep in whih LD digs up his mother's coffin? that's a good one

I have been a bit ill for the last few days and binged season 1 + 2 of this, its definitely classic for me. Some of these really cracked me up, beloved aunt, the doll's head one, the incest survivor group one. I'm sort of buzzing that there is another 50 episodes of this to watch.

LD is hosting SNL Feb 6th!

9th season seems to be official?

ohhhh this fuckin hits the spot https://medium.com/hbo-cinemax-pr/hit-hbo-comedy-series-curb-your-enthusiasm-starring-larry-david-to-return-for-its-ninth-season-4203b46e2674#.vl09y9d8m

got a bit bored by the last season so not sure how much I need a 9th season

One of the funniest shows ever. Episode where Larry David asks for the doctor's personal phone number is all-time.

Are people anticipating the new season on some other thread?

Anticipating the fuck out of this right here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iUAvZgbl1o

Trailer

http://cdn1.thr.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/1500x845/2017/09/gettyimages-82591163_-_h_2017.jpg

Larry David: American recordings with Rick Rubin

trailer thoughts? At a glance, seemed both more pro-shot and big budget, and (even) more ridiculous.

The last season kinda seemed like the one season too many, so not sure how much this is needed.

Larry David: American recordings with Rick Rubin

1. I Am...I Said

crazy this is already out there, season 9

msg me if you're curious

Completely lost it when he pushed the woman to the ground and screamed FUCK!

yeah any time larry drops the F bomb it's classic

I am curious, Ross

check yer emails

richard lewis looks like a corpse you'd revive just for laughs and then say "seeya"

Oh wow that last post of mine was truly horrible

Sorry, was a little out there last night

sure, I'll watch this

plz dont talk abt leaks itt ty

K flopson respect that

Has it started yet???????

no, early October iirc.

Premiere was good!

it certainly stuck to the formula. Leon is always good.

i'm gonna be a negative nancy and say i was very underwhelmed. i used to love the old show, and it was basically more of that. so it should have been good, right? but i didn't laugh at all. i don't know if i have changed, or if comedy has changed, or wtf has happened, it's very disorienting.

haven't seen it, looking forward to seeing it, but.... Larry David has a tendency to get formulaic after a while. I like the formula, and all, but can easily see this being not better than the previous season.

seemed like a good warmup episode. get all the gears oiled and moving again

xxp season 8 felt that way to me, but this felt like a decent first episode

season 8 had some classics though, "Palestinian Chicken" in particular

haven't seen the new ep yet, looking forward to it

This was kind of an overly cosy, slighty lazy greatest hits, but I still laughed a lot.

Felt like it was trying to cram a bit too much in (that scene with Susie at the end was particularly rushed) and I dunno, a lot of the humour felt a bit forced. This show is a lot funnier when Larry is only unintentionally a dick.

To me this is the shift in CYE from the early seasons to some of the later ones. Larry just becomes more of a dick. I remember when that happened to Homer in The Simpsons it also became impossible to watch.

Not quite as bad with Curb.. but there was a drop-off.

The Guardian gave this five stars so I was immediately suspicious (same for Dunkirk and Blade Runner, what a bunch of shits)