It seems pretty, pretty, pretty likely this will be the last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm
In a since-deleted Curb Your Enthusiasm, writer-producer Jon Hayman talked of the end
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After 23 years of curbing our enthusiasm, Larry David might be ready to call it a day again. Filming has wrapped on season 12 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and in a since-deleted tweet, writer-producer Jon Hayman eulogized the show. “Maybe you love the show. Maybe you hate the show,” Schaffer wrote. “Maybe you don’t give a shit. In any event, shooting the last scene of the last episode of the final season.” We imagine a more formal obituary is on the way. The A.V. Club has reached out to HBO for comment.
As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, David’s fellow ray-of-sunshine luminary Richard Lewis, who’s appeared as himself on the show for two decades, also tweeted about filming. However, his words are a little less dire. “There I was a few hours ago in my trailer on location to shoot my last scene of #Curb12,” Lewis tweeted. “Hard to believe we started in 2000. The cast and crew all knew we were working for a genius. When that rarity happens, no one ever takes a moment for granted. We love you LD.”
The tweet doesn’t exactly scream the end is nigh for the series, but rather the season. And there’s also this sticking point: Every season of Curb feels like the last. This felt particularly true after 2011’s season eight finale, which sent Larry to Paris to annoy Parisians about parking etiquette. Between 2011 and the season nine premiere in 2017, David told Howard Stern “the odds are against” another season of Curb” in 2015. “HBO knows the odds are against it,” he said. “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.”
Additionally, David filmed a death scene for Larry in season 11, just in case he didn’t want to do another. “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,” executive producer and showrunner Jeff Schaffer said last year. “So Larry kept
falling into that pool without the fence and banging his head [for the
scene]. We actually have a shot after he’d fallen in, of the still pool
with just the envelope floating in the middle, and maybe adding one
bubble.”
“This one lent itself too perfectly. We just got high and wide on the
pool, with one light shining on it and the envelope floating in the
middle. And we said, ‘OK, if this is how we go, this is how we go!’”
What can we say, Larry David is a human being, and human beings change their minds. We’ll see if history repeats itself. Again.
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“In a since-deleted Curb Your Enthusiasm”
– the A.V. Club
Hopefully it’ll turn up with all those missing 1960s Dr Who episodes
Consider my enthusiasm curbed.
Between 2011 and the season nine premiere in 2017, David told Howard Stern “the odds are against” another season of ” in 2015. “HBO knows the odds are against it,” he said.
“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.”
He looks eternally 70 years old.
Bro he definitely looks noticeably older
Love the first eight seasons of Curb. Once it came back from the long hiatus, something has felt off about it. Hard to pinpoint what it is exactly, because it’s not like he’s changed the formula all that much.
I think the episode runtime creeping upwards has been one element of it. Episodes in the first 8 seasons are always a tight 30 minutes or a little under. Season 9 onwards, they creep up to 40, sometimes nearly 50 minutes. It throws the flow off a bit. Probably not helped that the show is never scripted traditionally, so it must make some episodes feel a bit more shapeless when they edit. I do still enjoy season 9 and 10. The season long spite store arc was particularly wonderful, especially how it hilariously resolved after a season of checkov guns being discreetly set up.
Not for me. I loved the Spite Store and various other little storylines. Sure I don’t understand ‘in-universe’ why Leon would still be living with Larry but I still enjoy the programme. It’s not done a Simpsons and turned to churning out unsatisfying facsimiles of past glories… yet.
“I’m Anonymous”!
I think it became more of a fantasy world after Cheryl divorced Larry. Before that it was very based in reality and everyday problems. After that it got silly. Leon also changed the tone a lot.
I thought Season 9 was easily the weakest of all, but that 10 and 11 were pretty good.
The camera work is part of it. It looks way too close to faces and, like, hollow somehow? Same with the Law and Order reboot.
I’ve always found it changed after the (almost-final) fifth season, which had been announced as the final season when it aired.
Agreed. Season 6 is when it really started going downhill for me.
“Formula” is correct: It has sucked since Schneider/Mandel/Berg took over and crystallized the shows into a formula, just like they did to “Seinfeld”.
I really love curb, but didn’t overly care for season 11. The central story was all over the place and no episode or even particular scene stood out. I do will always be glad it’s being made. Hopefully season 12 is another great one. Their batting average has been largely stellar.
“In a since-deleted Curb Your Enthusiasm, writer-producer Jon Hayman talked of the end”Wait, so Jon Hayman released a Curb Your Enthusiasm and then deleted it?
It doesn’t really need an ending. The premise is that Larry is a jerk and it blows up in his face, both in each episode, and in the season in general. It’s not like there is a plot that needs wrapping up.
It technically ended at the fifth season; he planned to stop there and the episode even ends with him going to heaven. Then, apparently, they filmed a death scene for him last season, in case it would be the last.It’s absolutely weird how fixated they are on “ending the show properly,” when it’s so episodic.
It wouldn’t surprise me if David closes up shop now; He’s about to go through his own, personal, bespoke version of hell: watching as the completely untalented guy that shtupped and dumped his daughter baldly and lazily completely rips off his tv show format for a – let’s face it – guaranteed viewership-hit.
What are you talking about????
What guy/show?
I’m guessing Pete Davidson.
I think they should kill off Larry, and then do at least one episode centered on Leon. Like it’s your classic Curb plot, but because it’s happening to Leon and not Larry things escalate quickly.