Consider this. There have been eight seasons of Curb Your Enthusiasm so far and there's allegedly a decent chance there'll be a ninth. But the ninth season wouldn't air until 2014 at the earliest and the first one debuted in 2000. Has there ever been a show before that took fifteen years to air ninety episodes? Clearly, Larry David is a guy who takes his time, post-Seinfeld at least, in coming up with his comedy. According to HBO executives, he's basically perpetually on an optional contract for one more season and is free to approach HBO whenever he feels like he's got some good ideas for another ten-episode run. In Season 6 (2007), those ideas included the adoption of a family of Katrina refugees. In Season 7 (2009), Larry wanted to create a sort of pseudo-renuion for Seinfeld in order to win back his ex-wife. Here in Season 8 (2011), there's a much simpler story arc; Larry merely heads to New York and spends some time there. It was awesome. Although he didn't make it out to New York until the sixth of these ten episodes, the wait was well worth it; every episode in the back half of the season was fantastic, helped largely by self-deprecating guest appearances by the likes of Ricky Gervais, Bill Buckner, and Michael J. Fox. I definitely hope to see a ninth (and a tenth, and eleventh, and so on) season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and if you haven't seen it yet you really need to do so. It's got a very specific brand of humor, but what it does it does better than any other show on television. Wonderful stuff.
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