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‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Finale: A ‘Seinfeld’ Throwback, Plus Charm, Minus Structure
The 'Curb' finale resembles 'Seinfeld's' signoff, in a frustrating, imperfect episode
(“Seinfeld’s” witnesses, like the Soup Nazi, had the weight of having blossomed by popular mandate into TV history; “Curb’s” included Bruce Springsteen, talking about something that happened on last week’s episode; Alexander Vindman was also back, for some reason.) Earlier in the episode, David had made the barely-buried subtext of the series text: Confronting a child, he seems ready to tell him off or to deliver unsolicited parenting advice to his mother, before declaring, “I’m 76 years old, and I have never learned a lesson in my entire life.” This, as much as the West Coast-vs.-East Coast divide or the profanity allowed by premium cable, is what differentiates “Curb” from “Seinfeld” — on the latter series, (nearly) every episode’s final minutes had a pleasing, Swiss-watch quality, as the disparate storylines clicked neatly into place and the characters came back together once more.
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