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Critic Reviews
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
The first four episodes contain more solid laughs than most sitcoms manage in a year. [13 Oct 2000]
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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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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Season 7 Review:
There's reliable pleasure to be had in watching an increasingly embarrassed and panicky Larry rush from one self-created crisis to another until, wham, he steps on a figurative steel trap and suddenly realizes he'll probably have to gnaw off his leg if he's ever going to escape the hell he's made for himself.
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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 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]
TV 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]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Curb is an experiment in free-form TV, one that is just as happy to make you cringe in embarrassment as make you laugh, and even happier just to dawdle along provoking no response at all. [13 Oct 2000]
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 Your Enthusiasm" retains its place as the funniest of the funny on television today. [5 Jan 2004]
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 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 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 3 Review:
Each episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" flies by in a dizzying blur of neurotic delight. [14 Sep 2002]
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