Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Seinfeld reunion is GOLD

The seventh season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm premieres next Sunday, and I got to take an early look at the first three episodes. The first two play out as typical Larry David driven Curb episodes, picking up sometime after we last left David (remember, he left his wife Cheryl for Loretta Black). A pretty out-of-left-field ending to the season, if you ask me, but it definitely had me wondering what this season would look like. These first two episodes address that storyline with some finality, but where the season really picks up the pace is in the third episode.

You may have already heard that this season of Curb would feature a pretty large plot revolving around a reunion of the Seinfeld cast. What you may not have known, though, was that it’s actually Seinfeld, the show, getting back together as well. It’s a reunion episode about a reunion episode. How freaking brilliant is that?

In case you’re not familiar with Larry David’s involvement with Seinfeld, he created and wrote for the show during its long run on NBC. Essentially he wrote the part of George Costanza to be a near mirror-image of himself, so the scenes with Jason Alexander (who played George in the series) are some of the best yet on the series. You’re basically seeing George argue with … George!

Jerry and Jason both poke fun at Larry and the show in ways fans will love, in particular how this reunion will make up for the shitty finale and allow the show to “go out on a high note.” I did a spit-take just from that whole line of dialogue alone. Jerry, Julia and Michael somehow ooze the personalities of their Seinfeld characters “in real life” in this episode, too, in particular Michael Richards in the cafe of nudes.

I’m not sure yet how many episodes the Seinfeld gang has signed on for, but so far it looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more of them (and possibly Meg Ryan) in at least the next couple of episodes. I’m betting they’re in for the entire season, as Curb usually takes on one large plot point per season and runs that through to the season finale. Well, this would be that plot point, so I can’t wait to see more.

Clacked by Keith McDuffee
on Sep 14, 2009 @ 12:00 EST5EDT