Season 1Ī show’s first season is never its best, especially if that show is trying out a completely new concept. But overall, since it doesn’t really feel like Curb, this season is the weakest one.
“Kamikaze Bingo” is a good one, too, particularly the final scene with the kamikaze pilot coming at Larry in his wheelchair (complete with the sound effects of a plummeting fighter jet) and the scene where Larry enters the nursing home and hears a porno playing on full volume, only to find that his bumbling father is watching it with a gleeful look on his face. And the one where Larry befriends a sex offender and invites him over for dinner is really fun. Larry David wearing a bra and getting caught on camera doing it will never not be funny. “The Larry David Sandwich” and “The Christ Nail” are classics. Still, there are some great episodes that stand out. We watch Curb for Larry’s take on the petty minutiae of everyday life, not the wider and more philosophical aspects. It touches on all the big issues like death and the meaning of life and the afterlife. The main problem that season 5 suffered from is that was all too spiritual and surreal. There are no bad seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, but this one about Richard Lewis needing a kidney transplant and Larry hiring a private eye to find out if he is adopted is the weakest one, unfortunately.
So, here are all nine seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm, ranked from worst to best. Fans were worried that Larry David would leave them with eight seasons and never do another one, until last year, when he rose like a phoenix and came back with a vengeance to bless us with a ninth season, a full six years after the eighth one had aired. Before Curb Your Enthusiasm, no one was shooting sitcoms with a handheld camera in a cinema verite style and improvising all their dialogue. Curb Your Enthusiasm is not only one of the funniest shows on TV – it’s also one of the most ballsy and innovative.