Curb Your Enthusiasm

For seven seasons, HBO’s improvisatory and always awkward Curb Your Enthusiasm has made viewers squirm on Sunday nights waiting in secret anticipation for the next repulsive “Larry David Moment.” With a slightly altered version of himself and his celebrity universe, creator David has  demolished the unwritten rules of society; as Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly notes he has mastered “taking little annoyances, indignities, and offenses, and worrying at them until they bubble into fantastically overblown debacles.” This past season David took his series to new curmudgeonly extremes, while bringing back his Seinfeld buddies for a meta-reunion. Even Larry’s obnoxious outbursts, such as railing against wood disrespecters, could not mar the sweet finale that Seinfeld mavens have desperately desired.

Curb Your Enthusiasm is produced by HBO Entertainment.