Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Complete Fifth Season
starring: Larry David, Cheryl Hines, Jeff Garlin, Iris Bahr, Mike Coleman
directed by: Bryan Gordon, David Steinberg, Larry Charles, Robert B. Weide
directed by: Bryan Gordon, David Steinberg, Larry Charles, Robert B. Weide
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SEE LARRY PLAY BINGO WITH THE ELDERLY, TREAT SOME NEW FRIENDS TO A SKI TRIP, INVITE A STRANGER TO SEDER, DONATE MONEY TO A KOREAN CHUM, VISIT A SICK MAN IN THE HOSPITAL, TAKE AN INTEREST IN OTHER FAITHS & DISCOVER HIS FAMILY ROOTS. IS THIS THE DAWN OF A NEW LARRY DAIVD...OR IS IT JUST THE END?
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The cover art for HBO's comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Fifth Season implies that the series' star Larry David is Everyman. Larry is not Everyman; in fact, he is far from it. Somewhat of an amalgam of the Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer characters he co-created for Seinfeld, yet so uniquely Larry, his socially inept behavior is the basis for and the best part of the show. This fifth season holds no exceptions to the world oblivious to social graces that is Larry David's. Larry tackles some tough issues, his main conundrum being the fact that his close friend Richard Lewis (comedian Richard Lewis playing himself) needs a new kidney. Season 5 slants towards Larry's soul searching: will he take the donor test? Is he a match? What will he do if he is a match? We see how far Larry will go to help his friend in need: staging car accidents, fake marriages, and more. We think we see some depth to Larry when he suspects he may be adopted and cheerfully embarks on a search to find his "real" parents, but are reminded how things really are, when he throws morality out the window, striking up a friendship with the known sexual predator in the neighborhood in order to improve his golf game. Of course there is the very Seinfeld feel to this show in general, the tone, the self-involved lead character--and in the first few episodes there are actual storylines and even spoken lines taken almost verbatim from Seinfeld episodes, so much so that an avid Seinfeld fan may start to lose patience.Stick with it, though, because the Seinfeld-ian similarities wind down through the second half of the season and the Curb your Enthusiasm hilarity revs up. --Rachel Moss
SEE LARRY PLAY BINGO WITH THE ELDERLY, TREAT SOME NEW FRIENDS TO A SKI TRIP, INVITE A STRANGER TO SEDER, DONATE MONEY TO A KOREAN CHUM, VISIT A SICK MAN IN THE HOSPITAL, TAKE AN INTEREST IN OTHER FAITHS & DISCOVER HIS FAMILY ROOTS. IS THIS THE DAWN OF A NEW LARRY DAIVD...OR IS IT JUST THE END?
Amazon.com:
The cover art for HBO's comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Fifth Season implies that the series' star Larry David is Everyman. Larry is not Everyman; in fact, he is far from it. Somewhat of an amalgam of the Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer characters he co-created for Seinfeld, yet so uniquely Larry, his socially inept behavior is the basis for and the best part of the show. This fifth season holds no exceptions to the world oblivious to social graces that is Larry David's. Larry tackles some tough issues, his main conundrum being the fact that his close friend Richard Lewis (comedian Richard Lewis playing himself) needs a new kidney. Season 5 slants towards Larry's soul searching: will he take the donor test? Is he a match? What will he do if he is a match? We see how far Larry will go to help his friend in need: staging car accidents, fake marriages, and more. We think we see some depth to Larry when he suspects he may be adopted and cheerfully embarks on a search to find his "real" parents, but are reminded how things really are, when he throws morality out the window, striking up a friendship with the known sexual predator in the neighborhood in order to improve his golf game. Of course there is the very Seinfeld feel to this show in general, the tone, the self-involved lead character--and in the first few episodes there are actual storylines and even spoken lines taken almost verbatim from Seinfeld episodes, so much so that an avid Seinfeld fan may start to lose patience.Stick with it, though, because the Seinfeld-ian similarities wind down through the second half of the season and the Curb your Enthusiasm hilarity revs up. --Rachel Moss
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: 
- Great Season and Was Better On Second Viewing!
When I first saw this season, I was disappointed and compared it to other seasons in a negative way.Maybe it is the passage of time but watching the DVD set for the first time, I found many jokes I hadn't noticed before and found the show hilarious.Guess it wasn't as showy and more subtle than other seasons but not too subtle.I'm still wondering where the cell phone was located.
Rating: - One of the Best TV Shows Ever
Curb is basically a continuation of Seinfeld... if you love Seinfeld, you'll absolutely love Curb.
Larry David = George, and HBO gave Curb the oppertunity for longer R rated shows.
Rating: 
- Disappointed
I usually roll on the floor laughing with this show, but this season offered only a few really good laughs. His show wife,Cheryl,often reacts to Larry the way we would, but this season, she seemed bored most of the time. I don't think I'll buy the following season.
Rating: - I am now a fan!
I used to hate Curb Your Enthusiasm (and I was a Seinfeld hater when it was in prime time; now I love it!)After seeing "The Christ Nail" and "Kamikaze Bingo" on a flight to London, I was hooked.Brilliant comedy about nothing, and I love every minute of it.
Rating: 
- Worst show ever - do NOT be fooled by the 5-star reviews!
This is the worst show ever produced - taking advantage of Seinfeld fans misguided loyalty, and the wrongful thought, that since this is made by Larry Davis, it has to be good... it don't!
After a couple of episodes (if you actually get this deep into it before throwing away the dvd's) you realise that the dialogue actually follows the same structure and speech patterns that Seinfeld does - only this show has no proper actors or comedians to deliver the lines.
It's stiff, slow, tries ... Read More
- Great Season and Was Better On Second Viewing!When I first saw this season, I was disappointed and compared it to other seasons in a negative way.Maybe it is the passage of time but watching the DVD set for the first time, I found many jokes I hadn't noticed before and found the show hilarious.Guess it wasn't as showy and more subtle than other seasons but not too subtle.I'm still wondering where the cell phone was located.
- One of the Best TV Shows EverCurb is basically a continuation of Seinfeld... if you love Seinfeld, you'll absolutely love Curb.
Larry David = George, and HBO gave Curb the oppertunity for longer R rated shows.
- DisappointedI usually roll on the floor laughing with this show, but this season offered only a few really good laughs. His show wife,Cheryl,often reacts to Larry the way we would, but this season, she seemed bored most of the time. I don't think I'll buy the following season.
- I am now a fan!I used to hate Curb Your Enthusiasm (and I was a Seinfeld hater when it was in prime time; now I love it!)After seeing "The Christ Nail" and "Kamikaze Bingo" on a flight to London, I was hooked.Brilliant comedy about nothing, and I love every minute of it.
- Worst show ever - do NOT be fooled by the 5-star reviews!This is the worst show ever produced - taking advantage of Seinfeld fans misguided loyalty, and the wrongful thought, that since this is made by Larry Davis, it has to be good... it don't!
After a couple of episodes (if you actually get this deep into it before throwing away the dvd's) you realise that the dialogue actually follows the same structure and speech patterns that Seinfeld does - only this show has no proper actors or comedians to deliver the lines.
It's stiff, slow, tries ... Read More
