Curb Your Enthusiasm is coming to an end (again)
HBO announced the final season of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm will premiere February 4
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At the HBO Upfronts presentation attended by The A.V. Club last month, CEO Casey Bloys said the network would leave the decision to end Curb Your Enthusiasm to Larry David. Apparently, Larry David has decided (again), because on Thursday, HBO announced the long-running comedy show’s 12th and final season. Curb’s swan song will premiere on February 4.
”As CURB comes to an end, I will now have the opportunity to finally shed this ‘Larry David’ persona and become the person God intended me to be—the thoughtful, kind, caring, considerate human being I was until I got derailed by portraying this malignant character,” David said in a statement. “And so ‘Larry David,’ I bid you farewell. Your misanthropy will not be missed. And for those of you who would like to get in touch with me, you can reach me at Doctors Without Borders.”
In his own statement, Bloys said, “It’s hard to say farewell to such a ground-breaking, brilliantly funny and iconic series like Curb Your Enthusiasm, which has left its mark across television and the comedy genre.” He went on to give a shout-out to David and showrunner Jeff Schaffer for their years of dedication to the show.
Schaffer was anticipating the end when the last season wrapped, filming a version of the final scene where David died. “I know I say this all the time, but every season is the last season. And I wanted to prepare as if it was the last one,” he said at the time. After all, Curb had experienced something of an ending before: after the eighth season, the show was ostensibly over, and David indicated he had no intention of bringing it back. He nevertheless returned six years later for a ninth season and has continued to produce the show since then.
While HBO kept tight-lipped about the series’ future until now, it seems that the Curb crew was aware of David’s decision in advance. “Maybe you love the show. Maybe you hate the show,” writer-producer Jon Hayman wrote on Twitter/X in March. “Maybe you don’t give a shit. In any event, shooting the last scene of the last episode of the final season.”
And so it’s officially a wrap on Curb—unless David changes his mind again somewhere down the line. “HBO knows the odds are against it,” he said back in 2015, years after the show had gone off the air the first time around. “I’m not ruling it out. I mean, it’s been a while. I don’t want to go back to the show and look 10 years older than I did in the last episode.” Who knows: an 85-year-old Larry David could make a pretty incredible Curb revival someday.
Seasons 1-11 of Curb Your Enthusiasm are available to stream now on Max.
15 Comments
Will it actually end, though?
Are you suggesting a Leon spin-off series? Because I would watch the shit out of that.
Pretty … prettyyy … prettyyy … pretty good …
crazy to think this has been on since i was a teenager and i’ll turn 40 during this last season.i did a rewatch last year and the truncated 20+ year timeline is very funny when you take it all at once. one season larry can’t stand everyone on their blackberries during meals, a few seasons later he’s begging to get his iphone charged and is jealous of everyone being able to use their phones during a meal.also so many small roles are played by future comedy mega-stars. the season where ricky gervais is presented as the world’s most beloved man (something that accidentally works as a joke upon rewatch), also has eric andre in a no-joke, one-line role.anyway i give him 5 years before he does another season.
Not exactly a hot take, but you have to be a sick comedic genius to come up with things like this.
This is worse.
It has run out of funny for a while now . Last season pool death was LAME
Is that an AI-created photo of Larry?
Nah, it looks like a smartphone shot that’s been over-noise-reductioned on the skin……so of fucking course Getty charges money for it.
I tried getting back into CYE but immediately smashed into an episode with fatshaming in it. I am not usually sensitive to stuff but I have been ground to a pulp by all the careless fatshaming going on in comedy and I’m just fucking tired of seeing it. It depresses me how boringly common it is, such low hanging fruit for people with shit degrees of empathy.So, having loved CYE for the first few seasons, yeah. Let it die, the well is fucking dry as dirt.
This is not unexpected, but also kind of a bummer. Every time a new season of this show comes out I brace myself for disappointment, then I find that my fears were unfounded. IMO there has been no drop in quality over the course of the series. I thought the most recent season was particularly strong, I loved Tracy Allman’s character.
The real question is will this actor still be on it?https://www.buzzfeed.com/larryfitzmaurice/jeff-garlin-goldbergs-allegations