Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh SeasonCurb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
The wait is over – Larry David is back! In Season 7, Larry contemplates his future with an ailing Loretta, and decides on a novel approach to winning back Cheryl. In addition to Larry finding himself embroiled in the usual cauldron of self-made crises, he orchestrates a reunion with the entire cast of Seinfeld!Art continues to imitate life to squirm-inducing effect in Curb Your Enthusiasm’s seventh season. Now divorced, Larry (creator Larry David) lets agent Jeff (Jeff Garlin) talk him into a
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(out of 13 reviews)
Review by carol irvin for Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
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Update: The last episode showed a Seinfeld episode within a larry david CYE episode. It was really wonderful. If you are a Seinfeld fan, you must see the last episode of this season even if you do not like this show. I am a fan of both so was in heaven!
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I just watched Larry David do a send up of Michael Richards’ infamous “N” word rant to a heckler on this season. David uses the real Richards (Kramer) with the black comedian who lives with him on the show. This is typical of Larry David, who considers nothing too sensitive for comedic exploration. This is one big reason why I love this show. Larry David has to be the most Politically Incorrect Person in America and I love him for it!
There are just so many funny things this season that any reviewer could write a small book about the joys of Season 7. We open with his girlfriend having breast cancer and Larry’s wanting to end the relationship. Somehow he manages to find a therapist who ends up blaming him for the cancer! (As a cancer patient, I found this whole cancer episode very funny.) We revisit his mother’s death via her tombstone and Larry even manages to get the tombstone cutter mad at him. He becomes persona non grata at his country club after killing another member by making him mad and the guy had high blood pressure (which explodes), all over the inanity of playing through, or not, in golf. He wears women’s underwear as an alibi for Suzie’s husband when she finds panties in his glove compartment. He and Richard Lewis seriously come unhinged together again–Lewis and David have a friendship which thrives on maximum antagonism and misunderstanding. Then there is the biggest thing going on in Season 7: Larry decides to put on a Seinfeld reunion. He does so as only Larry could where you see the reunion coming together behind the scenes. You are not left out of anything in the entire process. The major thing you discover doing this is how much of Seinfeld was Larry–tons. When George (Jason Alexander) and Larry come together, it is clear that George WAS Larry. They are mirrors of one another, willing to obsess and argue over any minutiae.
This may be the best season yet of this show. I hope Larry David keeps doing it. It is a breath of fresh air among the comedic mediocrity that is the usual tv fare.
Review by Michael A. Newman for Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
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Now that Season 7 has aired all its episodes I wanted to give my two cents. I enjoyed this season more than the last two (Season 1 was still the best). When Season 6 concluded many of us thought that was going to be the grand finale of the show. With Cheryl finally having enough of Larry’s antics, pairing up with the underwear salesman who befriended her in her time of great fear (Larry was too busy with the TIVO guy at the time) and Larry settled in with Loretta and the rest of the Blacks.
Well Larry got the itch to do a type of Seinfeld reunion show to make up for the disappointing ending of the original series. He put together the idea that this could be used as a platform to get Cheryl back. As the series started, we see Larry bored with Loretta and trying to get out of the relationship. Larry learns that Loretta may have cancer prompting Jeff to let him know that he better break up with her before she tells him because “you can’t break up with someone with cancer.” It then becomes a race with Larry to get to Loretta before her doctor so he can break up with her before the doctor gives her the devastating news. (brilliant writing).
Usual battles with Susie and Marty Funkhouser crop up during the season.
Episodes that followed dealt with Larry dating women in wheelchairs that he has code names for, killing the country club owner’s pet swan and a lesson in proper tipping. To top it off Larry tries to get the Seinfeld cast together only because he meets Cheryl on the way to an audition and he feels that if can give her a part in the show he can slowly win her back.
For those of you that have not seen it I do not want to spoil the fun. I will say that the last two episodes dealt with the actual Seinfeld reunion and the show will definately not disappoint like the original series ending from 1999. If you have a chance to watch some of these episodes and you like Seinfeld, I would recommend that you watch them!
Review by justlettingyouknow for Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
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This was an amazon season of Curb and gave seinfeld fans what they have been craving for year a Seinfeld reunion although the actual Seinfeld part of the show was small it would be amazing as a special feature on the dvd’s they took all of the seinfeld scenes that they had filmed and put them together as an actual seinfeld episode, but thats just my thoughts
Review by Bob Waskiewicz for Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
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I didn’t think Larry could top Season 6,”Meet the Blacks,” but this year is even better.Curb has shows you never see on TV, having sex with a wheelchair date,avoiding kissing someone you know who just had oral sex with your best friend,or one of your female employee’s wearing a cut off shirt with belly fat hagging out.I can’t wait to see what happens with the Seinfeld reunion.I hope this show goes on forever.
Review by Robin Simmons for Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Seventh Season
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Rude, mean-spirited, bawdy, shocking, blasphemous. Larry David’s HBO series has been called many things (especially by those who hew to a strict political and social correctness), but the one term that best defines David’s take on his alter ego’s assumed life is “Hilarious.”
If you have followed the antic and tribulations of David, who plays an exaggerated version of what others presume to be is real personae as co-creator of “Seinfeld” and acerbic multi-millionaire resident of a celebrity neighborhood, this presumed final (?) season is a real delight since as it builds up to a faux reunion special featuring the Seinfeld cast.
What really works here is the conceit of the Seinfeld actors playing fictional versions of themselves as they prepare for the reunion special, which is of course, not a “real” event but a loopy part of the “Curb” world. Entertaining extras: The cast talking about their roles and there’s an interesting featurette about recreating the original Seinfeld set.