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Curb Your Enthusiasm 
09 March 2010, 6:21am

I remember, way back in 1998, watching the finale of Seinfeld and being slightly disappointed. In retrospect, I think the final was exactly what it should be, but every time I see it, I hope for a bit more of a bang. Curb Your Enthusiasm, created, written by, and starring Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld, contains much of the same humor, but often in a dryer, more subtle light. The sevent

[Note: I thought the seventh season was the end of Curb Your Enthusiasm until I read a bit from Wikipedia, which claims Larry is already writing a season eight. I wrote this before I knew that.]

I remember, way back in 1998, watching the finale of Seinfeld and being slightly disappointed. In retrospect, I think the final was exactly what it should be, but every time I see it, I hope for a bit more of a bang. Curb Your Enthusiasm, created, written by, and starring Larry David, the co-creator of Seinfeld, contains much of the same humor, but often in a dryer, more subtle light. The seventh season (edit: apparently not the last), just ended a few months ago.

Because iTunes doesn't have the seventh season, I only started watching it recently, after I decided being honest in China is more difficult than piracy (honestly, I waited almost six months to pay for this show). And the season finale is easily one of the best in US television history (up there with House season four, the aforementioned Seinfeld series finale, and House season five).

I won't go into details because, although it won't spoil the episode or the season, I hope all of you can watch it from the beginning, and I don't want to spoil anything. That being said, it really was two finales: the ultimate finale of Seinfeld, and the finale of Curb — two of the greatest shows of all time.

There's really no point to this post except to say that I highly recommend watching this show if you even sort of liked Seinfeld. Watching Curb makes Seinfeld funnier, and watching Seinfeld makes Curb funnier (so I'm looking at you, ker_bbs!!)