"Curb Your Enthusiasm" is the TV GOAT

Last night my wife and I watched the season 11 premiere of “Curb Your Enthusiasm”.

It was great. It was funny, I like how they approached COVID, there is a great storyline involving Albert Brooks, another one with Lucy Liu and a great bit about COVID hoarding. It is like a warm mug of hot chocolate on a cold night. The show is reliable and comforting. And I’m not here to review the premiere today. I just said it was great. What I do want to talk about today, a thought I had while having coffee with my mom and dad this morning, “Curb” is the most reliably great show on TV.

Hear my out. The show took a few years off between seasons, yet watching the premiere last night, it was like it never left. It was just as good as it always had been. There is not one episode or moment of this show that I think is bad. Everything is good too great. Everything works. Larry David is the GOAT of tv writers and actors. I don’t know why it took so long for me to realize this, it it’s true. There are shows I love, shows I adore, but most, if not all, have clunkers. “The Simpsons” is my favorite show of all time, but the early “Treehouse of Horrors” episodes are easy for me to skip. They’re not as silly as the more modern ones. They tried to make them kind of scary in fact. I would be fine if I never saw them again. “Breaking Bad” was the first show I binged, and it was great. But, and I do appreciate the message of the episode, the one where Bryan Cranston is obsessed with killing a fly in the meth lab was kind of dull. I thought it was fine, but it isn’t something I’ll revisit. “The Wire” is the best show ever in my opinion, but like many other people, most of season two is a drag to get through. We don’t get much of the main characters we grew to love in the first season. They show up here and there, but not enough for me. “Lost” kept my attention, but the episode about Jack’s tattoos is stupid. It’s a legit waste of time. “The Office” rules, but seasons seven, eight and nine stink. As soon as Steve Carrell left the show went down the tubes. “Parks and Rec” was the opposite “Office”. The first two seasons are easy to skip. I could go on and on. But when I look at “Curb” there is no season or episode that I want to skip. Everything works. The show is perfect. There are no clunkers. There’s no bad seasons. When Cheryl and Larry split, that could’ve been an undoing, but they nailed the transition. When Leon moves in with him it took the show up a few notches. Whenever Ted Danson is on it’s hilarious. Everything with Richard Lewis is glorious. The early seasons are as good as the recent seasons. The way they write this show, and let these comedic geniuses improvise, it makes the show never stale. It’s always fresh. It’s always funny. They can take a guy like Vince Vaughn and turn him into a character actor. They get Jon Hamm to play a heightened version of himself. Jeff Garlin and Susie Essman are always great.

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” is quite simply the most reliable show on tv. I don’t even think it’s arguable. I’m pumped it’s back on, and I already know this season will be great, just like the first ten seasons. What a triumphant show.

Ty

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