Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Sixth Season
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Release date: 2008-01-29
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Actors: Larry David
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Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Sixth Season
Date undefinedLarry David, multimillionaire TV producer turned master social philosopher, and occasional a/hole, grants us no mercy. He continues to "plumb the depths" of sophisticated situational comedy. Further nooks and crannies of obscure, unwritten social law are explored in painstaking detail. This sixth season tops even the flawless fifth season.
Of course, our antagonising protagonist is assisted in his questionable explorations by his unscrupulous agent and co-conspirator, Jeff Green (Jeff Garlin). In tireless opposition to the duo's antics stand Larry's wife Cheryl, Jeff's wife Susie, friends Marty Funkhouser, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, and a vast array of quirky guest characters.
Chief among the guest characters in this season are a family of survivors of Hurricane Katrina who, at Cheryl's charitable insistence, come to stay with the Davids at their LA mansion. While Larry is initially hesitant about the idea, he grows fond of his new housemates, especially Leon, the 30-something unemployed layabout, thug-for-hire, and self-confessed babe-magnet. Leon and Larry have chemistry to burn.
I turn now to Larry's best friend and, when it comes to arguments, his most deadly nemesis, Richard Lewis. I should point out that Richard's screen time in this series is limited. Space and time have been compressed, however, because the few choice sequences in which Richard does appear are so funny that you'll cry your eyes out. No one drives Larry nuts like Richard. This man can send Larry into a flaming rage without batting an eyelid.
Further highlights include:
Larry's pathetic attempt to get out of a close friend's house party - a scheme which is imitated in turn by Jeff and then Richard;
An admission by Jeff that he fornicated with himself in one of Larry's spare rooms during a dinner party;
Several continued assaults on the peculiarities of doctors; and
A scheme Larry cooks up with his loony psychiatrist (played by special guest star Steve Coogan) in a desperate attempt to reconcile with a loved-one.
The last episode restores a newfound equilibrium to Larry's personal life, which by the end of the series is greatly transformed. But is it really a new beginning or will the show reset next season?
Either way, I will never curb my enthusiasm for this show.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Sixth Season
Date undefinedI've been and still am a Seinfeld fan and discovered the Larry David show a couple of years ago. Since I don't subscribe to HBO, I have to wait for the DVD's of this show to come out.
The first few shows of the sixth season were entertaining but not hilariously funny as I was getting a little tired of Larry David's annoying habits. But, the second disc of this set was much better and proved once again the quality of the writing and quality of Larry David's humor.
Very entertaining and very funny.
Due to the strong language, I would not recommend to anyone younger than 17 or 18 years of age.
Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Sixth Season
Date undefinedHow does Larry David do it? This is the sixth season of the increasingly remarkable Curb Your Enthusiasm. One would think that by this time, the series would start to show wear and tear, but it doesn't. Larry manages to make it even better this time around.
The first addition here is a family that loses their house in a hurricane, and on the prodding (or nagging) of Cheryl, the Davids adopt the family. It's a black family called the Blacks, which Larry has a lot of fun poking at. At first, the addition seems a bit contrived, but by the season's end, they are fully integrated into the series and fit in perfectly. The shows are as hilarious as anything Larry's done, with special kudos going to The Ida Funkhouser Roadside Memorial (where Larry steals flowers from his friend's mother's memorial), The Therapists (with a wonderful comic turn by Steve Coogan), The N Word (where Jeff Garlin accidentally gets his head shaved because of Larry, and Garlin actually got his head shaven for the show and sports a crewcut for the rest of the series), and the anonymous donor, where Larry gets in Ted Danson's face about being "anonymous". It's also funny to see Larry use the Blacks' bathroom with their "real" toilet paper, as opposed to the scarring, environmentally friendly one. Larry divorced his wife, Laurie, and he complained in an interview how she was pyscho about her environmentalism, and she forced him to use said toilet paper. Larry's rear end is now much more pleasant, as he has divorced Laurie and enjoys the benefits of singledom and soft toilet paper.
Many of the usual suspects appear here, and new ones do too (the above Black family, Michael McKean, Steve Coogan, Tia Carrere). It all seems to work so well for Larry. Brilliant stuff.
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