Blessed by the Potato

I’ve heard a lot of people rave about “Curb Your Enthusiasm” over the last little while, and most recently had someone strongly recommend it, so I got my hands on season 1 & 2, and I seriously don’t see the appeal at all. In fact, I think I hate it.

It’s sort of like a scripted “reality” show about a TV writer (specifically, Seinfeld co-creator Larry David) while he runs around annoying people and being rude (or yelling at/about rude people). I see that there are a few funny moments in there, but they’re separated by long stretches of random yelling, screaming, bickering people repeating themselves, and awkward pauses. I just can’t get into it and the last few episodes I’ve seen (in season 2) didn’t even have any of those funny moments to make it worth it.