TMC
06-25-2024, 06:29 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2024/06/25/the-four-best-curb-your-enthusiasm-episodes-of-season-seven/
Just as every Curb fan has a different set of favorite episodes, I’ve seen a variety of picks for favorite season. Seven is cited a lot, but for me, Season Four is the peak and every year thereafter sees a little bit of magic lost, as Curb’s spontaneity gets progressively undermined by more narrative and textual preplanning, thus reducing our “buy in” to the show’s aesthetically suggested veritas and the premise it implies, while the central Larry David characterization increasingly heightens to earn bigger, bolder ideas — not in a way that goes against his basic design or is prohibitively unfunny, but simply indicates strain not directly motivated by the situation. In that regard, Curb is more naturally, effortlessly what it wants to be earlier. However, I, too, love Seven — not merely because it has a few top-tier gems, but mostly because it makes a crucial decision that helps temporarily alleviate, or rather, temporarily overshadow those mounting concerns.
Just as every Curb fan has a different set of favorite episodes, I’ve seen a variety of picks for favorite season. Seven is cited a lot, but for me, Season Four is the peak and every year thereafter sees a little bit of magic lost, as Curb’s spontaneity gets progressively undermined by more narrative and textual preplanning, thus reducing our “buy in” to the show’s aesthetically suggested veritas and the premise it implies, while the central Larry David characterization increasingly heightens to earn bigger, bolder ideas — not in a way that goes against his basic design or is prohibitively unfunny, but simply indicates strain not directly motivated by the situation. In that regard, Curb is more naturally, effortlessly what it wants to be earlier. However, I, too, love Seven — not merely because it has a few top-tier gems, but mostly because it makes a crucial decision that helps temporarily alleviate, or rather, temporarily overshadow those mounting concerns.