The Four Best CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM Episodes of Season Eight

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This season marks the end of Curb’s original run. We’ll get into the revival next week, but I’ve already revealed that I’m not the biggest fan of the return seasons, specifically in comparison to these first eight years, for the new Curb offers a more jarring, extreme progression of the slight qualitative decline we’ve been following since the series reached its finest calibration around Three/Four, when it was best able to play to its situation in well-paced episodic story, thanks to fresh ideas and a performance style neither too unsure nor too premeditated. Since then, the show has come to feel more deliberately plotted, which has also made it less believably off-the-cuff, straining the veritas once implied by the metatheatrical premise and its handheld single-cam framing.