Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Disgruntled
After lightly criticizing all the time spent on the golf course in last week’s overlong “Vertical Drop, Horizontal Tug,” I was pretty wary going into “Disgruntled.” It’s the second episode in a row centered on the country club, and it feels odd to return so quickly, especially without any real carryover of that episode’s conflicts. Mr. Takahashi is back, accusing Larry of various offenses, and it’s just a little repetitive.
Before long, though, I found myself mostly forgetting about those issues and just really enjoying this episode, perhaps more than I have any other this season. Your mileage may vary, but most of the comedy just worked for me this time around, even with my general readiness to move on from Irma Kostroski. It’s an episode that doesn’t do anything new or offer any particularly novel angle on Larry’s neuroses or his miserable relationship. But it’s brisk and tightly constructed, and none of the bits felt particularly forced to me the way th…
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