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DVD Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Second Season
It's more of the same for Larry David's sitcom from HBO, and for fans, that's a good thing. The show--largely extemporized--follows suit of David's former series, Seinfeld: it's a show about nothing, just the everyday life of the star going about his pseudo-real world. But David's show has far more edge (thanks, in part, to airing on cable TV) with all the bad luck, embarrassing situations, and dreadful behavior as its premiere season. The closest thing to an arc is David's season-long pitch to the networks for a new show starring former Seinfeld stars Jason Alexander and Julia-Louis Dreyfus. Each network is lampooned, especially HBO, which David has a bad history with in this alternate world. Sure to repel those with soft funny bones, Curb's acerbic comedy allows jokes where David is accidentally framed--if ever so briefly--as a child molester, wife abuser, or murderer. But for those who do love his shtick, there are big laughs, especially when we bump into characters as unbridled as David, like a fellow writer who is quite protective of his dad's invention, the Cobb salad.
Many comic actors pop up, some as "themselves" (Richard Lewis, Rob Reiner) and others as characters (Rita Wilson, Ed Asner) along with the delights of co-stars Cheryl Hines as David's wife and his affable manger, Jeff Garlin. There are several touchstone bits: what a thong brief can do to a relationship, a run-in with pro wrestler, Larry's first baptism, and one very collectible doll. To pick one episode to capture this second season--and its grandstanding nature--it would be "Shaq," in which the NBA star is accidentally tripped, changing David's usual bad luck with gut-busting results. --Doug Thomas
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Best season of a top-notch show
After an excellent season 1 of 'Curb,' Lary David takes the comedic art of socially awkward situations to an even higher level in Season 2.
Classic episodes include "Trick or Treat" (Larry refuses to give candy to two uncostumed tennagers), "The Doll" (featuring a side-splitting rant by Larry's agent's wife) and "Shaq" (David is so good he even makes Shaq look funny). The season's first two episodes ("Car Salesman" and "Thor," both hilarious) feature guest spots by Jason Alexander, who has some great exchanges with Larry. Other than the lackluster finale "The Massage," season 2 provides nonstop laughs from start to finish.
Probably the best season of comedy since Seinfeld's heyday.
Neuroses never looked so fun before
Larry David, writer and co-creator of Seinfeld (not to mention the real life George Costanza), has created a show that carries on the Seinfeld tradition of deriving scripts from the quirky oddities of everyday life. It follows his life after Seinfeld, trying to develop his next project and get along with the rest of society despite a steady string of poor judgment calls and cringe-inducing faux pas that alienate nearly everyone around him. This is a very funny show. The second season features lots of great guest appearences, such as Seinfeld alumni Jason Alexander and Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Shaquile O'Neill, and Richard Lewis, all playing themselves.
WOW, WHAT A SHOW!
I just finished watching the season finale and I must say I am going to miss this show. In the past few months I have watched all four seasons and this is the ONLY television show that almost every time leaves me with a huge laugh at the end. This show is intelligent and so brilliantly simple and complex at the same time. Do yourself a favor, WATCH this show, comprised of people who are at the top of their craft!
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Like its fellow HBO series Sex and the City, this half-hour comedy broke some TV rules and went from critics' darling to an award-winning series in three years. Curb Your Enthusiasm is the brainchild of star-creator Larry David who co-created Seinfeld and was the basis for the easily rattled George Costanza (who was played by Jason Alexander). Like George, David has a tendency to speak too much, blow things out of proportion, and, most often, fail in the end (and often liking it that way). David's new show is also like its predecessor: it's about "nothing" except following the day-to-day ramblings of a sometime writer and comic (this time in L.A.). Eternal questions stemming from universal daily dilemmas are honed to perfect comedic absurdity. A notable exception is... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The third season of HBO's comedy sensation offers more of the same. "Not that there's anything wrong with that," to quote Larry David's other television series, a certain little sitcom called Seinfeld. Consequently, Curb Your Enthusiasm's junior year means more Larry (Larry David) and more of his hilariously embarrassing mishaps. It also means more of his patient spouse Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), avuncular manager Jeff (Jeff Garlin), Jeff’s foul-mouthed wife Susie (Susie Essman), and assorted celebrity pals, including Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, Wanda Sykes, Paul Reiser, and Martin Short, all playing themselves (or, like Larry, versions thereof).
Again a funny and greatly entertaining series, I just can't get enough. What will he think of next, I hope there will be more, but I suppose it's not for everyone, There's no violence, some amusing swearing, an inside look at hollywood types, I'm glad I don't run in their circle of friends. Yes it's funny and you will laugh if you GET IT! Some people won't, you can certainly see his ideas in Seinfeld. I suggest you get all five seasons and enjoy the laughter over and over. More Info about this DVD Director(s): Larry Charles DVD Release Date: Released the 01 August 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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He never learns. In the fourth season of his award-winning HBO comedy series, the quasi-fictional character of Larry David continues to say--and do--whatever he wants whenever he wants. In the first episode alone ("Mel's Offer"), in which Mel Brooks offers him the role of Max Bialystock in The Producers, David offends a doctor, a lesbian couple, a wheelchair user, and Ben Stiller (by not shaking his hand after he sneezes). Then, in the second ("Ben's Birthday Party"), he offends a blind man--by telling him his girlfriend's not as hot as she claims--and pokes Stiller in the eye with a skewer while attempting to show agent Jeff Greene (Jeff Garlin) his new golf move.
It's hard to believe, but for the first three seasons nobody really knew that Seinfeld was about, well, you know. It wasn't until season 4--unleashed here in a four-disc set that's equal in scope, quality, and quantity of bonus material to its predecessors--that the show really became something. In a series which can claim every installment as classic, the two-parter on disc 1 titled "The Pitch/The Ticket" truly stands out as a defining episode and, in retrospect, marked Seinfeld 4 as the breakthrough season. It's the one where (fake) NBC executives express their interest in working with Jerry Seinfeld on a TV show, then moves to the who's-on-first shtick of George successfully pitching Jerry on creating "a show about nothing." Scattered throughout the discs in commentaries... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Tom Cherones DVD Release Date: Released the 17 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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