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Star – Larry David My Rating *** Genre – Comedy Box set Run Time – 10 X 30 minutes. Certificate – 15 Country – U.S.A = = = = = = = = = So, Larry David is back, my favorite U.S sitcom for two decades. I was such a treat when Curb Your Enthusiasm returned in 2019 after a three year hiatus and a very good season too. But the world stopped for Covid and, like the virus, the show appears to have mutated a few times and lost its interest, fear and edge, not a great start after the four or five episodes that have aired so far. Times have changed and Larry and the writing team have clearly steered back from the black jokes, no doubt because of post Black Lives Matter - and the Asian, LGBT and everything else stuff, come to think of it, reduced to just Jewish American people going around to each other’s houses and whining about stuff, which maybe funny in parts on Curb but not in every scene guys. I think the show is scared to upset certain communities now in fear of lawsuits, protests and ratings dips. The attraction of the show to me was exactly the opposite, the last naughty one out there prepared to take risks. I am Larry David. He is my God. -The Cast - • Larry David as Self. • Jeff Garlin as Jeff Greene. • Cheryl Hines as Cheryl David. • Susie Essman as Susie Green. • J.B. Smoove as Leon. The season is centered on Larry’s plan to write a sitcom about ‘Young Larry’, casting various people to play him and his family growing up in Brooklyn and all the scrapes they get into. They- Larry and Jeff, his agent – offer the show to Netflix, then Disney, and Larry upsets them both, as per usual, a questionable toilet seat action and a rather odd choice of actress selection not helping negotiations in politically correct production team meetings. That leaves the rest of the day to upset everyone else, including Jeff’s foul mouthed wife Susie, people at the golf club and his ex wife Cheryl, housemate Leon hanging back more this time so to not be part of that chaos. ---Result--- The first four episodes of season 11, if this was the first time you had ever watched this show, would be enough to put you off from watching this again. They were not great, for some reason the show trying to find its feet again after Covid at what it knows how to do. Once that Coronavirus joke is dealt with in the first episode there are no more face masks and back into non reality and the pandemic forgotten. You see very few shows with masks these days. It’s not a good look for actors, unless off set and not wanting to be recognized, of course. Episode five is funnier around the sushi bar running gag and echoes of old but apart from that not anywhere near its best. All the race tension and jokes about gays and non Jews have gone and the risk sucked out of the show like a blown Boeing 777 window at 35,000 feet. It just needs that naughty Larry David humor to be funny. It’s just not there for reasons only known to Larry and the writers. Wanda was a great black character but she has gone and Leon, the jive talking black character played by the normally very funny JB Smoove, has also had his wings clipped humor and role wise and aimlessly kicking around Larry’s house as if waiting to be have his pin pulled in the show proper. SO five episodes to go and let’s hope it improves. The Jews have always been allowed that little more leeway to be near the knuckle with their comedy due to the Holocaust and Hollywood power in all the right places and so it’s sad to see them waste it here. ===Trailer=== https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRCMPMGDN00