[This story contains major spoilers from the series finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm, “No Lessons Learned.”]
And, that’s a wrap on Larry David‘s Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The sequence finale of the Emmy-winning HBO improv comedy kicked off with a giant circle again to how the ultimate season started, with the ensemble heading to Atlanta to help Larry David (performed by sequence creator-star David) in his trial.
For a refresher: Season 12 opened with Larry getting arrested for violating a 2021 voting legislation in Georgia when he gave Leon Black’s (JB Smoove) Auntie Rae (performed by Ellia English) a glass of water whereas she was ready in line to vote. Larry didn’t know concerning the legislation, however he turned a liberal hero anyway, with the likes of Stacey Abrams, Bruce Springsteen and Sienna Miller changing into his adoring new followers.
An unlucky subject with a alternative garden jockey, nonetheless, led to Larry pleading not responsible to obstructing the election course of within the state of Georgia — which is punishable by as much as one yr in jail and a high quality of $10,000 — and going forward with the trial, an occasion that has loomed over all the season.
Larry’s act of being a superb samaritan prompted comparisons to the sequence finale of Seinfeld and hypothesis that Curb’s ending would possibly tackle the sequence finale of the basic comedy that left starring foursome Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards in a jail cell after they have been deemed by the legislation to be unhealthy samaritans. The ending was divisive. And Curb‘s collaborating duo of David and govt producer Jeff Schaffer appeared in on the reception, as this season was suffering from references to how David ended that beloved comedy.
One key storyline within the sequence finale is that Leon is binge-watching Seinfeld for the primary time ever when the Curb crew lands in Atlanta for Larry’s trial. Jury choice is underway and the decide decides to sequester the jurors as a result of flurry of media scrutiny across the high-profile trial.
Ted Danson (performed by himself) makes use of the chance to guide protests once more the Election Integrity Act (which is an actual legislation in Georgia) and Richard Lewis (performed by the late comic) is rekindling a former romance with a dishonest girl (performed by visitor star Allison Janney) who inadvertently flipped off Larry and Leon off on the freeway.
The visitor solid roster continues to unspool, as a whose-who of ghosts from Larry’s Curb previous pour into the courtroom to hang-out his verdict prospects. Larry and his lawyer (performed by Sanaa Lathan) additionally face a formidable opponent on the opposite aspect of the courtroom with the prosecutor (performed by Greg Kinnear), in addition to the decide on the bench (performed by Dean Norris).
Susie Greene (performed by Susie Essman) dropped the primary trace of how the decision would possibly go when she known as Larry out for by no means studying a lesson in his life. “It’s as much as the jury to resolve what sort of man Larry David is,” newscasters announce of the headline-making trial.
The laundry checklist of Larry’s offenders is, in the long run, too massive to disregard — because the jury is knowledgeable of a few of his worst behaviors, like stealing footwear from the Holocaust museum, “maliciously” giving Bruce Springsteen COVID, hugging a 9-year-old (after putting a water bottle in his pants) and giving her 21 years of remedy, utilizing the N-word, stealing from a number of lifeless folks, bribing a metropolis councilperson, hiring a prostitute so he might drive within the carpool lane and pretending to be an incest survivor named Todd.
“I cannot tolerate corruption from Trump, Putin or Larry David,” declares season 11 visitor star, whistleblower Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (enjoying himself).
The trial has confirmed Larry to be a “petty, conniving and albeit spiteful man,” the newscasters sum up earlier than Larry is handed down a responsible verdict and sentenced to 1 yr in jail.
However simply as viewers suppose Curb could depart Larry rotting in a jail cell, complaining concerning the trivia of day by day life in acquainted Seinfeld vogue, Atlanta customer and extremely anticipated visitor star Jerry Seinfeld is available in to avoid wasting the day.
Because of a fortuitous encounter at a close-by restaurant, Jerry was capable of out one of many jurors for breaking the sequestering rule. A mistrial is said and Larry’s sentence has been thrown out.
Larry, Jerry bellows, is a free man!
“You don’t wanna find yourself like this. No person desires to see it. Belief me,” says Jerry in an enormous wink to Seinfeld.
Because the pair stroll out of the jail cell collectively, they muse about issues that would have been.
“Oh my God, that is how we should always’ve ended the finale,” says Larry.
“Oh my God you’re proper, how did we not consider that?” asks Jerry.
“Ahhh,” they are saying in unison, as they throw their fingers up.
The episode, directed by Schaffer, then ends with the ensemble arguing over placing the shade up or down on their airplane again to Los Angeles. “Go fuck your self, Larry. Return to fucking jail, Larry!” Susie screams in one of many final discernible traces of the sequence.
When speaking about Larry’s destiny in current weeks, Schaffer had hinted to The Hollywood Reporter that Larry wouldn’t be punished — equating his state of affairs to that of former President Donald Trump, who was as soon as once more invoked this week with a resurfaced shot of Larry’s Trump-like mugshot.
“The previous felon-in-chief is meant to be on trial now 4 instances over, and none of them are taking place! TV Larry must be envious at how [former President Donald] Trump is delaying all these things. So, who is aware of what’s going to occur on Curb?” Schaffer had not too long ago stated.
Now, Schaffer affords this to THR, in a little bit of uncommon Curb reflection:
“What I really like concerning the finale is that it touches on one thing larger than the present. We frequently blur the road between actual Larry and TV Larry, however right here there isn’t any line in any respect: Each Larrys have by no means realized a lesson — and thank the Gods for it.”
Come again to THR on Monday for extra from Schaffer as he unpacks the sequence finale — titled “No Classes Realized” — with THR. Curb Your Enthusiasm is streaming on Max.