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Hbo curb your enthusiasm season 711/12/2022 Afterward, Larry drops off his date (who is Lucy Liu playing herself, by the way), but instead of inviting Larry inside, she tells him she had “a big night” and sends him on his way. Seconds later, Larry walks directly into a glass screen door. Later at a dinner party, Susie plops on the couch next to Larry, causing him to spill a glass of red wine all over the couch. Friends and family should say nice things to a person before they’ve kicked the bucket, Brooks says. Meanwhile, Albert Brooks is planning a “live funeral,” which basically means he’s not dead and just loves attention. “You know what’s rude? Owing somebody $6,000 for six months, and never mentioning anything about it and not paying them back! That’s rude!” (I mean, Larry has a point!) Nevertheless, the guy says next time they see each other at the club, he’ll write the check. (I’m cringing already.) Larry tells him he never paid him for a golf trip, and the man is taken aback by being rudely stalked. On their way out, Larry chases down his friend Dennis who owes him money, but according to Jeff, the man has early on-set dementia. In the show, Larry would try to off his rich uncle so he could inherit the man’s fortune - and the streamer loves the idea! (We also learn that this season exists in a post-pandemic world… thankfully!) For the first time, Curb is engendering sympathy for Larry David – and it’s working.The next day, Larry and Jeff attend a meeting at Netflix, where he pitches a show about a 20-something version of himself. We know Dennis is trying to avoid paying up, that Susie plopped, that anyone could walk into a glass door. There seems to be something intentional about how “The Five-Foot Fence” juxtaposes Larry’s moments of competency – Netflix eat up his show pitch his relentless mocking of Albert Brooks for hosting his own funeral despite everyone knowing he’s alive upstairs goes down brilliantly with the assembled mourners – with his social blunders. You just can’t look at a person the same way after they walk into a glass door.) (Leon also, hilariously, auditions for a new Mary Ferguson to join him on an already-booked trip to Asia when she does the same thing. Maybe, as Leon suggests, Larry is becoming “feeble”. Immediately after, Larry walks face-first into a glass door, prompting his new girlfriend, Lucy Liu, to no longer think of him in a sexual way. When Susie “plops” down on Mary Ferguson’s (Ashli Auguillard) couch, causing Larry to spill red wine on it, there’s a bit of debate about whether she “plopped” at all. The way this all comes together is predictable, if satisfying, but the bulk of “The Five-Foot Fence” is devoted to furthering the idea that Larry is losing it. But Young Larry, a semi-autobiographical comedy series in which a twenty-something Larry David moves in with and tries to kill his rich uncle while beginning his comedy career, seemed as potentially brilliant to me as it did to fictional Netflix executive Don Winston Jr. Again, no show in which a man can waltz into Netflix’s offices and successfully pitch a show about himself should be funny. The eponymous one in “The Five-Foot Fence” is that Larry wakes up in the middle of the night to find a would-be burglar dead, face-down in his pool, and the fact his fenceless property doesn’t meet Santa Monica’s building mandates opens him up to extortion from the deceased’s brother Marcus (Marques Ray), who blackmails Larry into casting his daughter Maria Sofia (Keyla Monterroso Mejia) as a Jewish ballerina in the new show about his early life that he’s pitching to Netflix. But somehow the “rich people problems” that befall Larry David are always hysterical. The joke becomes, though, that Larry himself seems compromised.Ĭurb Your Enthusiasm shouldn’t be funny – no show about someone rich enough to wait six months to call in a six grand loan should be funny. There’s a minor subplot in this episode in which John Pirruccello’s local jeweler Dennis Zweibel has developed the early stages of dementia, so when Larry chases him for $6000 he floated for a golf trip that Dennis never paid back, it seems like he’s picking on someone who’s compromised. But now he’s getting older – although he never seems to age – the piling calamities that befall him are not only worsening but might, at least as far as his friends and associates are concerned, be indicative of him losing his faculties. Putting Larry through the wringer is the point of this show since it’s funny to see how Larry reacts to various misfortunes. Curb Your Enthusiasm season 11, episode 1 recap
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