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Jul 9, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It has genuinely funny moments... [but] the biggest problem with "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is the unevenness of the improvisation. [13 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
This is cringe comedy at its giddiest best. [2 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 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 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 1 Review:
Imagine "Seinfeld" distilled to its cynical essence. [12 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:
Its lack of niceties makes for a love-hate affair for viewers. [2 Jan 2004]
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:
Perpetually miffed, always digging himself out of one disaster while inadvertently miring himself in yet another, David is either making you wince or making you laugh. Unfortunately, it's probably more of the former than the latter. [13 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It's a glorious mess. [2 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:
An insanely funny romp thanks to its unique storytelling technique and an inspired performance by the star. [15 Oct 2000]
Feb 5, 2024
Season 12 Review:
Much of this season feels more tired, or perhaps just familiar, in an “Old Man yells at cloud” (or in Larry’s case, Siri) kind of way. That said, there are still explosively funny moments, underscoring David’s knack for identifying the absurd and a prevailing attitude that has long since made clear he doesn’t care who he might offend, but rather mischievously revels in it.
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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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ColliderOct 25, 2021
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Sometimes he's just too grating. [4 Jan 2004]
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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Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
No one does cranky like Larry David. [7 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 3 Review:
The most original and audacious comedy on TV right now. [13 Sep 2002]
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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Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
I think Curb Your Enthusiasm is funnier, smarter and classier than Seinfeld. [13 Sep 2002]
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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Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
Larry is getting a little ridiculous... and a little too mean even for Larry. [7 Sep 2007]
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 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 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 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]
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.
Feb 6, 2024
Season 12 Review:
Attempts at “timely” humor — a Giuliani hair-dye joke, an uncomfortable exchange with a trans man whom Larry knew before he transitioned, and a guest star I cannot reveal but whose presence will certainly spark conversation — feel forced and fall flat. But then there are moments when the show is just as hilarious as it’s been at its best.
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Oct 2, 2017
Season 9 Review:
On paper, I love the idea of Larry becoming an American Salman Rushdie by trying to tell his story in the form of a stage musical. It’s got a shamelessly metafictional kick. ... But the fatwa that’s declared against Larry is too predictable and half-assed. ... [Episode five is] not great, either, but it’s much better and funnier than this debut.
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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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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 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 1 Review:
This one is not for everyone. I'm just glad it's one for me. [15 Oct 2000]
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 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 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 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 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 6 Review:
In a tepid era for sitcoms, this risk-taking series can astonish. [8 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Inspired comedy springs from the smallest things. [3 Jan 2004]
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Season 8 Review:
This eighth season finds him spending time in New York City, and the trip rejuvenates him. [18 Jul 2011, p.35]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 4 Review:
TV's best sitcom. [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]
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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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:
The project as a whole reeks of self-indulgence and vanity. [13 Oct 2000]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 6 Review:
Just when it seemed that "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the crotchety, disdain-filled embarrassment of absurdities, was going to lose its way, Larry David seems to have found a new batch of wince-inducing scenarios to mine his comedy. [7 Sep 2007]
Jul 9, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The comedy is so darkly cynical that it's off-putting. If you're a glass-half-full kind of guy like me, it's hard to make the show part of your regular TV menu. [13 Sep 2002]
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 4 Review:
To see Larry behave so socially recklessly each week is a tremendous treat. [2 Jan 2004]
Jul 8, 2011
Jan 21, 2020
Season 10 Review:
Curb Your Enthusiasm has hit on several of the biggest developments that have cropped up since it last premiered. Where any of this is going is anyone’s guess, including David & co.’s, I’d wager. But I will always hem and haw over niceties, so Curb still has my attention... for now.
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The Daily BeastOct 25, 2021
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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