'Curb Your Enthusiasm' Takes on Pandemic Hoarders (and Netflix) in Larry David's Glorious Return to TV - Daily Beast

Yet as the HBO series resumes its cringe-worthy run tonight (Oct. 24), Larry David remains the same impossibly combative and antisocial curmudgeon that he’s always been.

Nonetheless, as is usually the case with Curb Your Enthusiasm, triumph is fleeting and misery is inevitable, and it’s not long before Larry receives an extortion note about the missing fence.

Making matters wittier still, the show for which she’s auditioning is Young Larry, a Young Sheldon-esque comedy about Larry’s early years living in New York City with his wealthy uncle, working as a chauffeur and trying to be a stand-up, which Larry successfully pitches to Netflix.

Curb Your Enthusiasm’s eleventh-season premiere gets additional mileage out of the return of Jon Hamm, who may have moved on from playing Larry in a movie (because test audiences found the character “repugnant”), but continues to use Yiddish terms as if he were actually Jewish.

While Curb Your Enthusiasm has long become set in its ways, it’s retained its caustic bite, thanks entirely to its impressive ability to keep concocting creative ways to torment the socially maladjusted Larry.

Regardless of what the show winds up throwing at him, however, it’s reassuring to know that no amount of paradigm-shifting, reality-altering events can stop the fictional Larry David from being a smug, screamy, narcissistic loon, and the real Larry David from being the funniest comedian on television.