aparisi2274
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I lost it when Elizabeth Banks was lying to the cop and broke out an Irish Accent... oh man, so good.
Ugh it just doesn't feel nearly as natural as the show did in previous seasons. Something just seems really off. Can't really explain, it just feels massively different
The restaurant manager did grow on me by the end tho lol
Not sure I agree with the praise on this episode. Felt like it was one of the weakest Curb episodes of the entire series. Yes seriously. Fatwa sex and Salman were great and the Wayans guy. .
I can think of about 50 other episodes I would rather watch than this one. Not to say it was bad but in the bottom tier.
I don't know what you guys are watching but it's not Curb. This is over the top and overly exaggerated from the comedy I watched. The stuff with the disturbance would have never gone on that long in seasons by gone, neither would the over the top Elizabeth Banks stuff. Even Leon seems like half a notch above where he used to dial it in before.
Subtlety LD.
And the Ted and Cheryl stuff is just weird! Look how he went with the no fly zone guy compared to this.. Way more believable in how you'd feel in that situation. Meh.
I feel the same. Curb used to feel semi documentary and grounded. It feels contrived now. Breaks my heart to say it.
Yup. Just feels incredibly forcedI am totally in agreement with most of the above quoted. I am not about to shit on one of my fav shows of all time but...
Maaan, there are some crucial Curb elements (laws if you will) being broken or totally ignored this season, two sequences in this episode totally ripped me out of the Curb universe. Felt so contrived and not like the grounded, documentary like drama that unveils around is as we watch Larry start an argument with a "straight man" character.
That's why I really liked Jim Rash's performance as the Hotel clerk in the last Ep, because he really acted like a real life Hotel clerk, minus the pickle jar run ( which was fun and effective) he did not do anything stupid, and tolerated Larry's craziness, with a straight face.
That whole accidental text thing felt like something out of the pre smartphone era.
Anyone else think the Greenes' acting is particularly off? Susan seems like she's at a family gathering with unfamiliar relatives; Jeff has been screaming his louder lines and he seems pretty forced. The ayatollah episde has a lot of this
He looks tired, like he doesn't really want to be there. The rapport between he and Larry is definitely lacking this season.Anyone else think the Greenes' acting is particularly off? Susan seems like she's at a family gathering with unfamiliar relatives; Jeff has been screaming his louder lines and he seems pretty forced. The ayatollah episde has a lot of this
Yeah Jeff is phoning it in all over the place, not acting just being loud and delivering lines with zero effort.
Last episode was way way closer to classic curb though. Preeeeeety funny.
Yeah Larry's chemistry with Jeff isn't there. He is so much better paired with Leon.
He's always been the worst one on the show imo.
Larry - "Man, I just can't figure out what pants to wear."
Jeff - "OH, YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE FIGURING OUT WHICH PANTS TO WEAR??"
He just doesn't improv well or keep things flowing. He's just there to keep Larry talking and moving the plot along.
Man I feel like this season is flying by. Do we know if this is going to be the last season for good?
What would the finale even be? The only thing I can picture, and it's admittedly more of a family guy cutaway had, is Susie and Larry arguing when Susie takes it a gun and shoots himLarry David never really specifies, I read an interview with him once where he said he would always be open to doing more Curb if he had good enough ideas for a whole season, and said that if he ran out of ideas, he just wouldn't do another one, and that would be that. He mentioned having a good working relationship with HBO. They don't pressure him and if he wants to come back, he can come back any time.
I doubt we'll ever get a solid finale if the show ever does end for good.
Or Funkhouser turning it into a case wreck for revenge the Larry ruined 3 of his family's funeralsA Finale would definitely have to have some kind of symbolic setup to enforce there's no return, but a LD funeral would just be too sombre with out Larry himself turning it into the car wreck we all wanna see, and a Victor Meldrew style death would be too depressing.