Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm, “Ken/Kendra” | Season 12, Episode 9
A very quotable penultimate episode is still more concerned with bits than closure
Can you believe that Curb is ending next week? I can’t. Aside from some occasional meta references and fun callbacks (or reused storylines, depending how you look at it), this final season hasn’t done much work to help us process the fact that HBO’s longest-running show is coming to an end. Maybe that’s a reflection of Larry David’s generally unsentimental perspective about his projects and his characters, or maybe it’s just a result of this show’s rigid formula. I understand the impulse to keep churning out classic-feeling Curb storylines while there’s still time. It’d be odd to start really paying attention to plot at this point.
I might’ve liked just a little more acknowledgment of just how close we are to the end, though, or some effort to send off some of the supporting cast. There’s nothing particularly final-season-y about Larry and Leon’s (mostly hysterical) interactions in “Ken/Kendra,” or Cheryl’s resentment over Larry’s “sex on the floor trick.”…