Get the latest gossip
Curb Your Enthusiasm Finale Recap: A Free Man
A send-up of the maligned Seinfeld finale brings Larry’s oeuvre full circle.
It’s hard to overstate just how big of a deal it was when Larry, who had returned to Seinfeld to write the last episode, ended the series with the “New York Four” being found guilty in a New Hampshire court for having violated the “Good Samaritan Law,” standing by and mocking a man as he was robbed at gunpoint. Throughout this season, people (Ted Danson among them) have reminded Larry (and us) that he’s guilty of sending America’s favorite narcissists to prison — a decision many saw as humorless and uncharacteristically moralistic for a show that espoused “no hugging, no learning” as its chief ethos. Following the same Seinfeld- finale formula — if you didn’t get the parallels by now, Jerry himself shows up to remind you — a bunch of witnesses over several days in court are also ghosts from Larry’s past, each coinciding with a memorable flashback.
Or read this on VULTURE