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RogerEbert.comJan 29, 2024
Season 12 Review:
Complaints, like many of Larry’s, are minor. Even up to the end, David, Schaffer, and the colorful characters who’ve spent decades in Larry’s orbit (let’s not forget Susie Essman, Richard Lewis, and Ted Danson, who all kill this season too) find new ways to drive each other crazy.
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The Daily BeastOct 25, 2021
The GuardianOct 25, 2021
Season 11 Review:
David’s decision to largely put the pandemic in the rearview fits perfectly with the tone of the series, which has always shoved aside life’s bigger and more realistic problems and focused on the frustrating aggravations of minutiae. ... Even though tension, conflict, loud voices, and fury erupt from the screen, this display holds, for some (and I count myself in this group, so help me), a great catharsis, even comfort.
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Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
No one does cranky like Larry David. [7 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
Season six... starts off strong and only gets stronger - profane, offensive, cringe-inducing and hilarious. [5 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
L.D. is back, and - based on viewing the first three episodes - his genius remains intact. [7 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
In a tepid era for sitcoms, this risk-taking series can astonish. [8 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
With big laughs and inspired twists of spontaneous wit, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" remains a true original. It's Larry David's singular comic sensation, a masterful, wigged-out improv farce of Hollywood manners. [4 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
This is the funniest TV show I've ever seen. It might also be the best comedy series ever made, period. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
TV's best sitcom. [3 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" retains its place as the funniest of the funny on television today. [5 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The most original and audacious comedy on TV right now. [13 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
I think Curb Your Enthusiasm is funnier, smarter and classier than Seinfeld. [13 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The improv-based exchanges don't even sound showy anymore. The regular cast members, and even such recurring celebrity guests (usually portraying pettier versions of themselves) as Ted Danson and Richard Lewis, have gotten so skilled at this unusual manner of filmmaking that "Curb Your Enthusiasm" feels almost like reality TV. [13 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
I tend to watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with open-mouthed amazement... The show is a drop-dead accurate, edge-of-your-seat depiction of the minefield through which we all tread everyday in our interactions with spouses, friends, business associates and that most dreaded of all groups, total strangers. [13 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Good as "Curb" has been, this 10-episode season should be the year it gets recognized as HBO's finest comedy. [11 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Each episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" flies by in a dizzying blur of neurotic delight. [14 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
An insanely funny romp thanks to its unique storytelling technique and an inspired performance by the star. [15 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
With this delightful and boldly distinctive new series, the co-creator of "Seinfeld" has managed to accomplish two seemingly impossible things at once: He has given HBO its best sitcom since "The Larry Sanders Show," and given all of television the best sitcom since "Seinfeld." [13 Oct 2000]
ColliderOct 25, 2021
ColliderJan 29, 2024
Season 12 Review:
Curb Your Enthusiasm was great from the very beginning, but this twelfth and final season is a testament to this show’s greatness. While we can’t comment on the final episode, the buildup to this finale seems as though David is heading towards another iconic end, a meta-joke that the entire season is building towards.
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Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
By now, what we shouldn't take for granted is how good the performances in "Curb" have gotten to be. [7 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
This is cringe comedy at its giddiest best. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It's a glorious mess. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"Curb" never presents itself as anything but a cleverly plotted, deliberately offensive comedy. But it's more than a comedy: It's a comedy of manners, or bad manners; delightfully rude, and, in its unreal way, honest. [3 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Inspired comedy springs from the smallest things. [3 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
To see Larry behave so socially recklessly each week is a tremendous treat. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It takes at least two episodes for David's TV persona - the cantankerous, self-absorbed Hollywood writer whose best intentions always go horribly awry - to regain some degree of cozy familiarity. And that discomfort is one of the things that make Curb Your Enthusiasm so unusual and so funny. [3 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
"Curb" is as funny, in its pulling-teeth-with-a-pliers kind of way, as anything on TV. [13 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
No one has created a funnier TV character this fall. ... While the first four shows have their fair amounts of laugh-out-loud moments, each ends on an enormous knee-splitter; it's a show viewers will remember the following day and likely laugh at even harder than they did the first time. [12 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
I haven't enjoyed a new cable comedy so much since the first episode of "Larry Sanders." [15 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
David is thoroughly disagreeable. And that’s what makes 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' so deliciously perverse, and so true to the impeccable nastiness of 'Seinfeld.' For those of us who’ve been making do with syndicated 'Seinfeld' reruns, 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is the treat of the new season.
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Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
On "Seinfeld," this cranky sensibility was filtered through likable actors. Here, nothing stands between the audience and Mr. David's acerbic vision and morose face. There is every reason to despise the man, or at least to feel irritated by his narrowness and self-pity. Instead, for those who aren't immediately put off, Mr. David's comic brilliance becomes even more apparent in this unvarnished form. [13 Oct 2000]
Jan 21, 2020
Season 10 Review:
As ever, he’s all about Larry. The Season 10 premiere also includes myriad callbacks and tributes to previous recurring characters and storylines, delivered in a way only Larry David can deliver. Every moment of this episode is a kind of reward to those of us who have been there from the beginning.
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Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The constant bickering would quickly wear thin in a (gulp!) "Curb Your Enthusiasm" marathon, but over the course of a half-hour or two, it's amusing to watch him play a human matchstick and light a fuse wherever he goes. [4 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Its lack of niceties makes for a love-hate affair for viewers. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The title is the only thing that's obscure about this hilarious in-your-face comedy. [12 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Larry David's greatest asset as a comedian and a writer has always been the ability and, more importantly, the courage to straddle the razor blade's difference between funny and painful. [13 Sep 2002]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Imagine "Seinfeld" distilled to its cynical essence. [12 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
This one is not for everyone. I'm just glad it's one for me. [15 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
There will be those who will find true comic insight in the sharp comments and ugly little moments of truth. And there will be those who will flee "Curb Your Enthusiasm," seeking something just a bit less off-putting. [14 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
I defy the naysayers who claim Curb is in a rut: Who cares if it's not reinventing itself? It has become one of the most reliably amusing comedies on TV, taking little annoyances, indignities, and offenses, and worrying at them until they bubble into fantastically overblown debacles.
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Jun 27, 2013TV Guide MagazineFeb 15, 2024
Season 12 Review:
Over 10 episodes of outrageous and absurdist farce, Larry does his best, meaning his worst, to tarnish his newly golden reputation. [19 Feb - 10 Mar 2024, p.5]
Oct 25, 2021
Season 11 Review:
While the last few seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm can’t match the consistency of its earlier ones, there are always funny moments when Larry complains about something and/or he gets his comeuppance for his grouchiness. In the first episode of Season 11, there’s both, plus a promising new season-long arc. That’s more than enough for us.
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The Daily BeastJan 21, 2020
Season 10 Review:
Once more griping about the trivial and the absurd, the star is in fine finicky form in the 10th season premiere, this time around complaining about overactive pregnant women, excessive use of talcum powder, and cups of java that are so cold they don’t pass the “nose test” (i.e. David sticking his schnoz in the cup to gauge the beverage’s temperature).
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Oct 2, 2017
Season 9 Review:
Larry David was still Larry David rang ultra true in the ninth-season premiere Sunday night. ... It should be, as expected, pretty, pretty good. At this point, of course, even the bits that don't work as seamlessly as you might want (not a new issue) pale in comparison to the joy that comes from watching Larry try to wriggle out of an endless amount of situations.
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Oct 2, 2017
Season 9 Review:
It picks up with no alterations other than those time arranges; otherwise, it is completely of a piece with the seasons that preceded it. There has been no attempt to fix what was not broken, to innovate, to go deeper; given that one point of the show is the impossibility of meaningful change, change would be inappropriate.
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Oct 2, 2017
Season 9 Review:
All told, there is plenty to be enthusiastic about. The season’s storylines are only just getting into place, and standalone “Thank You For Your Service,” the fifth episode, is an elegantly structured comic episode that suggests the season will just get better. ... Curb Your Enthusiasm’s long-awaited comeback is not exactly great, but pretty, pretty, pretty good.
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Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
"Curb" is a comedy of hostility, resentment, paranoia and obsessiveness. There are no feel-good moments, no life-brightening epiphanies, nothing, in fact, even vaguely resembling a resolution; things get as bad as you feared, and then the credits roll. [3 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It still has that unique ability to make you laugh through your wincing. Or wince through your laughing. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
In the first of the new episodes, David seems all too eager to reach, and even stretch, for laughs. ... The good news is that as the weeks go on ... the show gets better and better, until the barnacles of self-consciousness fall off and David gets back to his old stride. It only requires a bit of patience, in other words, and viewers who find the first couple of episodes disappointing should stay with it, because at its lunatic best, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is still one of the absolutely funniest half-hours on television. [3 Jan 2004]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
As with most HBO series, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" isn't for everyone. Prerequisites include not only a desire for more of the best of "Seinfeld" but a willingness to go along with David's Brooklyn-bred grumpiness. [13 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The most stylistically innovative comedy to hit American television since HBO's great, barely seen "The Larry Sanders Show" ... It's also the most squirm-inducing look at everyday deceit that I've seen outside of an Albert Brooks or Woody Allen movie. [14 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The first four episodes contain more solid laughs than most sitcoms manage in a year. [13 Oct 2000]
Jul 6, 2011
Season 8 Review:
Curb remains an acquired taste. Still, even if you never watched a minute of the previous seven seasons, you can tune in and get some laughs. Guilty and otherwise.
Season 7 Review:
Curb Your Enthusiasm takes its own internal dare and does somehow manage to make us care about this world-class sufferer of impacted pettiness, with his endless bickering about the thermostat, the etiquette of blow jobs in cars, the horrors of vacuum-packed plastic.
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