The ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Final Season Is a Cranky, Cantankerous Delight

Larry David bids farewell to his second all-time great TV comedy (following Seinfeld) with the twelfth and final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Unsurprisingly, he goes out the same way he came in—crotchety, selfish, misanthropic and petty beyond belief—which is just how fans will want it, since fundamental to the HBO series’ appeal has always been its creator/star’s unwillingness to change his cringe-worthy attitude and behavior. David knows it too, confessing during this end run, "I've been expecting more from myself my whole life, and it's just not there.”

Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 10-episode conclusion, which premieres Feb. 4, doesn’t pull out all the stops with an ongoing storyline that ties up loose ends and revisits every past thread. Rather, at least during its initial nine chapters (which were all that were provided to press), it’s the same old madness, with Larry finding myriad opportunities to cause trouble for himself over the most trivial incidents and slights.

It begins with him traveling to Atlanta to attend the birthday party of a wealthy African who wants Larry as his (paid-for) guest of honor. When he arrives, however, Larry is stunned to discover that the shindig is for adult Michael Fouchay (Sharlto Copley), who’s not a Black African but a white Afrikaner. More problematic, though, is that Michael has invited Young Larry star Maria Sofia (Keyla Monterroso Mejia) to the same event, and he expects Larry to be a cordial and gracious participant in the proceedings, which is sort of like asking a cat to do your taxes.

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