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So far, season 11 keeps the more scripted, fast-paced David of recent years while thankfully addressing the real world only in bits and pieces. Though still sparking funny moments, this choice fractured David’s role of always being right in situations with others, with some scenes placing our protagonist in less comfortable gray areas. In season 10, Larry’s scenes approached real societal issues such as the #MeToo movement, with most of the episodes revolving around misunderstandings of conduct between the writer and female characters.

While this season’s scenes felt tighter and more staged than ever before, its narrative and performances (such as that of guest co-star Lin-Manuel Miranda ’02) were ridiculous enough to preserve the show’s comedic excellence. The show’s 9th season, airing in 2017 after a six-year hiatus, maintained these core elements while constructing them around a more concrete story-specifically that David, writing a musical about Salman Rushdie called “Fatwa,” must escape a real condemnation to death by the Ayatollah of Iran. In more recent years, however, “Curb” has begun standardizing this highly informal framework, to varying degrees of success. Lacking a script or overarching narrative, the show shined in its simplicity, turning what should have been a pointless premise into 45-minute segments of freewheeling comedy. Yet David’s hysterical misunderstandings, disputes, and love-hate relationships with his set cast of friends continued to produce some of the funniest TV I had seen up until that point.

Now halfway through its 11th season, the show’s sheer longevity nevertheless begs the question: How long can David keep the magic going? Despite some questionable narrative and stylistic nuances, the new episodes of “Curb” show that the series can still pack a serious comedic punch in 2021.īy the time I saw my first episodes of “Curb” at the age of 11, the show had already matured into its second decade. “Curb” debuted in 2000 and depicts a fictionalized version of David’s daily life as an established Hollywood writer-producer to often hilarious effect, employing none of the scripts or laugh tracks that marked the comedian’s earlier work. If “Seinfeld” was a show about nothing, “Seinfeld” co-creator Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm” is a show about even less than nothing. This article contains spoilers for “Curb Your Enthusiasm” Season 11.

Watch curb your enthusiasm season 7 episode 2