You're Not Going to Get Me to Say Anything Bad About Mickey

With this episode, Season's plot continues with Larry to compete with Mocha Joe's coffee bar and Sheryl's fling. Larry and gang go to Mexico for a wedding reception along with a new female and male guest appearance of which none are too impressive. You will all miss Richard here. The usual architecture of the series using the same abstracts(height, manners, patience, etc.)in different scenarios and to different nouns is implemented. It doesn't generate brilliant laughs here and won't laugh at the second watch. But fans of the show like me will cherish watching another day in the life of Larry David.

Not enough credit is given to the Yiddish humour that peppers Curb Your Enthusiasm: one of the highlights of this episode is the hotel dining room scene where the Ted Danson character played by Ted Danson gets in a dig about the Larry David character played by Larry David borrowing Cheryl's toothbrush, after which Larry suggests that Ted, a patrician goy, might be considered a "schnorrer" for not wanting to chip in for his seat on the private aeroplane. In other words, who, despite patrician appearances, is the real schnorrer? Needless to say, it is missing the point to demand.that a comedic situation in a work of fiction, videlicet the aeroplane captain's demand that the passengers notify him of their weight, conform with what would actually happen in the real world. Another brilliant example of wit in this episode is where Larry calls Mickey a "whirlwind of smarm.'

Ok, call me grumpy old guy talking about "back in the day", but.....

Not only are the situations more contrived.... but the delicious weaving of different threads into magnificent yarn at the end just isn't there.

Here the bulk of the episode was people get on plane, they spend time at hotel, then they get on plane again. Screenwriters/editors feel free to chime in.... but this kind of linear progression - standard for most sitcoms - just is different than the old episodes where multiple scenes/storylines took place and intersected in short time frame. (Also, isnt it a banal trope to do group trip in later seasons of any series?)

The first episode of this season was pretty solid. The Suzie painting in second episode was pretty funny. But I feel crazy to see Seasons 9 and 10 having the same overall ratings as the first 5 seasons. Still funny but nowhere near the same.

Still the best comedy show after Seinfeld, Larry is still a genius, but it seams something it's not the same as before. I don't know what, perhaps they don't improvise anymore.

The first two episodes were pretty good and reminiscent of seasons past, but episode 3 was probably the worst episode I have ever seen and episode 4 was not much better. I am a huge curb and Seinfeld fan, but it is just getting really, really lame. Don't think I could even be bothered with future Episodes to be honest.