What I’m Watching: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 8, Episode 8 “Car Periscope” (B+)

This episode was fun for a whole bunch of reasons, though its setting in NYC is definitely one of the main things that makes it hilarious. Of course Larry would take issue with “upstreaming” and losing cabs to more determined, aggressive people on the street. Shooting scenes at the parks and at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema is great for those of us on the east coast since this show usually features many recognizable locations on the west coast. This potential invention investment is highly dorky and dated, and there’s something about watching Jeff peer into the lens of that automobile periscope that made me feel like I was watching David’s previous show “Seinfeld” in the 1990s. Larry’s inability to rust someone with a beautiful wife, and, more importantly, the converse of that, stems from him being a horrible human being. Fortunately, he did get his due when Aida Turturro’s Gabby came at him when he wouldn’t hand over his popcorn to her while he went to the bathroom. The “Fugitive” parody was absolutely brilliant, and I love how Larry pursued him only to have Judge Horn identify him, the man with a broken arm, as the culprit. He didn’t have all that much to do, but I was pleased to see Cheyenne Jackson as Larry’s trainer who promptly abandoned him for his own referral, Wanda Sykes, only to drop her for Larry after he rigged the decision process by having the racist Judge choose which of them would get to keep him.